Tao Te Ching

              Knowing

Without taking a step outdoors
You know the whole world;
Without taking a peep out the window
You know the colour of the sky.

The more you experience,
The less you know.
The sage wanders without knowing,
Sees without looking,
Accomplishes without acting.

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The first thing about this poem that I noticed is that in many of the lines it gives two different extremes; for example the first two lines of the first stanza talks about not stepping outdoors, but knowing the whole world. To me having two extremes like this is contradictory because there is no way you can stay inside some where and know the whole world. 

The line that says: The more you experience, The less you know, I feel goes against "The Way" because Taoism says that the way is endless, which would make the experience and a person's knowledge never ending. With this they seem to contradict themselves again. The last few lines that talk about the sage, I feel it is saying that because he/she is such a wise person they don't need to do much because people assume that they know it all already and there is no need for them to show what they know. Going back to "The Way", Taoists sat that it is like a river and it flows in all directions and never ends, so if you put that in terms of a person's knowledge there would be no amount of knowledge a person could have, if they want to live "The Way".