A key to my appreciation for Taoism and Chuang Tzu, is 
the thought of complimentary opposites. We can see this only when we grasp and understand the “pivot” of Tao which passes squarely through both “yes” and “no”, “I” and “not I.” When we can release our fears of the unknown and change.
Our lives are in continual development and transformation. Everything is in a constant state of flux. What is impossible today may suddenly be possible tomorrow. What is good and pleasant today, may, tomorrow, become evil and odious. What seems right from one point of view, when seen from a different aspect, manifest itself as completely wrong.
What then should we do? Should we simply remain indifferent 
and treat good and bad, as if they were all the same?
We should agree that they are not the same. But in doing so, we would refuse to grasp one or the other and cling to it as though it is the absolute.
When a limited and conditional view of “good” is erected to the level of an absolute, it immediately become an “evil”, because it excludes certain complimentary elements that are required to 
make it fully good.
To cling to one partial view, one limited and conditional opinion, and to treat this as the ultimate answer to all questions is simply to obscure what I would say efforts to hide the obvious pivot we all should take that enhances the natural order of things. With this we change or modify our own thoughts and actions becoming universal. With this as our benchmark we become the first to change.
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