What's your take on Taoism?

I've been reading a bit about it and would like too hear what other people think of it.
@ Niki: thanks for the link.
also thank you jay den's gay mommy for your link.

I think it's an interesting philosophy, but not the way I'm going to live my life.

it makes a LOT more sense than half the crap floating out there.

go ogle Alan Watts. A lot of his stuff is brilliant.
lot of videos on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xALE3v_6Kts

Once you begin to describe the Tao, you no longer describe the Tao. The Eternal Tao cannot be named.

It is a religion that teaches to live life simply, without material goods or material wealth; balance and harmony is key. One of my favorite sayings that reflect an idea of Taoism is:

Wealth isn't measured by how much you have, but measured by how little you need. In other words, when you have air, water, shelter, food, friends and family, you are truly wealthy.

http://thebigview.com/tao-te-ching/


EDIT: Alan Watts was brilliant. He was able to convey the idea of Taoism to the Western mind, and his book "What is Taoism" is very short and a quick read, much like the Tao Te Ching.

How time flies. It was more than 40 years ago when I read Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet". Taoism was "in" amongst the intellectual crowd of the day while they were not busy finding ways to avoid the draft.
When speaking of relationships, the Prophet's words remain with me still: Like support columns in a structure, not too close together, not too far apart. And, different, but complimentary as salt and pepper.
It seems sophomoric after all this time.