The goal of a life is to gain awareness, knowledge, understanding, experience, insight, and to then transform into something or someone new, better - someone the Tao has never experienced before.
These are some of the stepping stones within one’s journey that leads to change and transformation:
Awareness is like knowing a car just passed you.
Knowledge is knowing what kind of car, what color, what make of car, what year, read the manual, etc.
Understanding is how when you sense and can visualize or perceive when something is not quite right in the working or ride of the car and can mentally troubleshoot and identify the source and what you need to do to overcome or solve the situation.
Experience is knowing how to drive the car, ride in a car, change the tires, change the oil, etc.
Insight is the accumulation - the stepping stones - of all the primary events that you have gathered from interacting with cars.
Transformation is how you have changed and transformed and are, or have become, something different or an expert due to the depth of all of these experiences associated with cars or vehicles, etc.
