Lao Zi is depicted in his biography as a man who practice the way and virtue. His doctrine was then generalized into something that "aimed at self effacement and namelessness on the one hand, and, on the other, into something that invites people to take no action and thus become self transform, and love tranquility and thus become righteous. Although it definitely gets to the point a generalization of this kind oversimplifies what he intended to express in over 5000 words.