while people like alan watts are a good starting place he draws heavily from taoism, the problem with that is the book is explicitly against....(brain fart, i cant think of the word for splitting a religion in to multiple sects) people running off and establishing their own religions based on the teaching of the tao te ching, you are pretty much expected to read it and meditate on the ideas, the peope who are meant to understand it will, the people who are not will not to paraphrase the book, no one who truly understands the dao would speak of the dao and may be worth noting that lao tzu is considered the wisest sage in all of heaven in easten classics and for good reason, some of the stuff can really only be described as ineffable, you pretty much just have to hope and wait for it to click and you get what would best be described as a transcendental realisation