Some student renderings of the first few lines of the Tao Te Ching:

Every tree grows toward the sun.
But not one reaches its aim.

Likewise we can grow in the Tao,
But never truly understand.

Who has a name, can be called.
Therefore the unnameable is never summoned.

--Phil Seth

The Tao that your mind conceives of as unchanging
is not the unchanging Tao.

--Jason Murray

The way of which I speak is not the way which can be walked
Nor can it be named, as its true name cannot be said.

Nothingness manifests as everything.
Designation is the source of everything.

--Sam Matics

The way someone tells you to walk
is not identical with the unchaging path.
The name that can be spoken of
is distinct from the constant name.

--Marvin Nardo

The path that can be walked
Is not the absolute path
The way that can be soken of
Is not the absolute way.

... Secrets and skin
aise from the same place
this place is named deepness.

--Lisa Black

The Tao is not the eternal Tao.
Names can be given names,
But the eternal name cannot be named.

--Greg Thompson

The way can only be walked if you never set foot on it.

--Erin Breese

The Tao that can be explained
is not the everlasting Tao.
The definition that can be defined
is not the everlasting definition.

The undefinable is the everlasting truth.
Defining is the beginning
of all particular things.

-Heather Spoor

Dale Teh Ching

Races can be raced, but not the Intimidator's race.

Other drivers can win the race, but not the Intimidator's race.

As for the race against Him, it is impossible;

As "The Intimidator" of all races, He is the victor.

-Joey Potts

The void that can be filled

Is not the real void.

Directions that can be found on the internet

will lead you nowhere.

-Marlon Ziello

The way can only be walked if you never set foot on it.

-Erin Breese

The more that is said about Tao,

the less is known of it.

There is no way to the Way.

-Mike Clark

The Tao is a path,

not a street.

The street is given a name

and will lead you to a dead end.

One without a name is endless.

In a name you give life,

and with life comes death.

-Erin Fostel

Existence is not really existence.

That which has a name doesn't exist.

To exist is to die.

-Jason Gillen

That which can be eaten is soon shat.

The coffee that can be spilt is not the coffee.

That which is eaten cannot be defined in the toilet.

-Brian Payne

The Tao is a feeling and an understanding indescribable by words. You cannot explain the Tao if you truly understand its being. Anything eternal does not exist in human language - it simply exists. It could not be any "particular thing" because it is nothing and everything.

-Tara Megos

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