Tao te Ching: 43

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest
things in the world.
Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Few in the world can understand teaching without words
and the advantage of taking no action.

It would be less of a blog and more of a transcription if I did all of this without words. It would mean I could get away with forgetting to hit the publish post button too.

Chapters 8 and 15 use the ideal of water as the soft thing that overcomes. Chapter 22 all but describes a tree in pliancy and yielding, yet ultimately weathering and surviving. Remember that from non-being comes being, and from being comes the many things, so that all things are ultimately of the non-being. If nothing can get in, then the only thing inside is that same nothing.

Teaching without words, silent transmission of doctrine, is the distinguishing characteristic of Zen Buddhism. We see it mentioned here again.