As of this publication (in 2014), Smashwords books have a 10 MB limit. To make this book available to you in Smashwords, we were required to eliminate many of the graphics that are in other digital versions and in the printed editions. However, you will be able to see the images cut from this edition as they are added to "The Haiku Tao Te Ching" Facebook page. You are welcome to download those images as they are posted."The Tao Te Ching" is the foundation of Taoism. Its empowering philosophy has enlightened minds for millennia. Now, in this simplified format of Haiku, combined with these meditation-inspiring images, this ancient wisdom is easier than ever to read, comprehend, and internalize.Translated literally, "the Tao" is "the Way" or "the Path." It is the way of heaven, or the path to enlightenment. It describes the same thing that various texts refer to as "Source," "intelligence," "the spirit of God," or "the light of Christ" that creates and sustains everything in existence. By aligning with that light, or walking that path, our awareness increases, giving us expansive love, joy, deep inner stillness, peace beyond reason, a sense of wholeness within, and oneness with all of creation. This Tao consciousness enlightenment is also called Krishna consciousness, Buddha consciousness, or Christ consciousness. It is all the same awakened consciousness.These enlightening images, along with the inspired text, and are intended to help you, the reader, to learn the Tao, align with the Tao, and then to be the Tao. Be the way.