Avenue to simplicity means that we should know and practice avenue from the simplest place. The avenue itself is anything but simple. The avenue is complicated, but people can find a simple entrance to enter the avenue. Just as mathematics has a simple operation method, it is difficult to illustrate it easily. This is the meaning of the road to simplicity. On the contrary, it is also wrong for people to regard the simplicity of words as Tao. The complexity of Tao needs the complexity of words to express, and they pursue simple words. People complain that philosophy is complicated and hope it is as simple as a jingle, but jingle can't express profound truth.
People have misunderstood the meaning of "from avenue to simplicity", and it is actually the biggest mistake to regard simplicity as the characteristic of Tao. The Tao itself is complex, and the entrance to the Tao may be simple. Just as knowledge is complex, you can enter complexity from the simplest place in kindergarten. So "from avenue to simplicity" means, from shallow to deep. Don't take the Tao itself as simple. If the Tao itself is simple, then the world is simple, then
It is futile for any civilization or culture to avoid the complexity of Tao. Because the complexity of Tao itself is necessarily the complexity of logic, thinking is also a difficult process. Thinking is the most difficult thing for most people. Therefore, it is better to be a slave than to think. The Tao is simple and the thinking is simple. Thinking is not a deliberate creation of complexity, but an objective reflection of complexity. Relativity and computer programming are very complicated. Don't expect science and philosophy to be simple, because if philosophy science is simple, it can't go deep into the essence of the world.
Because people avoid complexity, they bypass philosophy and science. People get superficial spiritual settlement in simple art, and those who pursue simplicity also avoid philosophy and science, because this is the most complicated subject in the world. The simple road starts from the smallest and most basic entrance, not the simple road itself. Just as knowledge is not always in kindergarten, the process of understanding is from shallow to deep, and practice is from shallow to deep. However, the objects of knowledge and practice are complex. Only infinite practice and knowledge can pursue Tao. The ancients believed that Tao was an established existence, and it would be profitable to get it once. This is naive. Only then did I know that Tao itself gradually emerged in the process, that is, in the process of understanding and practice. Therefore, Tao is the process of movement, so there is no Tao, and the process of understanding and controlling is to obey Tao.