Core Insight:
According to Osho, to call Lao Tzu total means he embodies wholeness beyond the mind’s perfectionism and ego; he contains and reconciles opposites—wisdom with foolishness, knowledge with acknowledged ignorance—choosing nothing, excluding nothing. In such inclusiveness, the living whole appears; perfection’s selective cutting disappears. Hence Lao Tzu’s innocence may look foolish, yet it is consummate, paradoxical wisdom.