Thursdays Child Discovering The Tao

Since Thursdays Child is about growth, lets look at not only growing in our Christian development but also in our acceptance of other cultures . Growing up in the south in the 60's and 70's there were many opportunities to give in to peer pressure and become a part of the predjudice that was so rampant back then. Fortunately I was raised that people are people no matter what color, culture, or religion. That's why I don't understand why people dislike other people, or treat them wrong just because of the way they look. This really bugs me when people who are suppose to be Christians act this way. That's why I want to shed some light on at least a part of the chinese culture. One of their ancient text is the Tao Te Ching, Tao as we've said before means "Way" or "The Way," Te translates to Virtue or Character, and Ching means Canon or Great Book. So, put together Tao Te Ching translates to The Great Book of The Way Of Virtue. Alot of it reads like Proverbs in the Bible, or Zen teachings. But some of it like I mentioned before reads like you plug in the word God for the word Tao. Verse 4 is an example.
The version I'm quoting is a very modern day english version by Ron Hogan.

How much Tao is there, more than you'll ever need.
Use all you want, there is more where that came from.
You can't see Tao, but it's there.
I don't know where it came from, it has just always been around.

Isn't that the classic question? I don't know of any person who has been taught about God that hasn't asked:
"Where did God come from?"
And the standard answer, "He's just always been around."
Question: "If He created everything who created Him?"
Then, the answer that has always bugged me.
"We don't know, we just have to have faith that that is the way it has always been."
Sadly, I don't have a better answer. But, do we really need one? Why not have faith in a creator? We put our faith in humans and they let us down. Why not have faith in someone who won't.
Like I said at the beginning, this is a text where another culture gets their belief from, just like we get ours from the Bible. I hope this helps to understand their culture. We'll look at other verses later. Thanks for searching with me, Paul