The Real TAO-gh (Tough)

We know that in order to be strong, one needs the enough strength in order to comply such criteria of what is really to be strong; to have the right muscles, the right force, the right mass, etc. But actually, it is not really the strength that makes one really strong, for it is sometimes it is the contrary which is.

We are familiar with the term/phrase: "Silent but deadly". At first, we can understand such as something that is pretty absurd, for how can a silent one be deadly? I mean, with such one's passivity, how can one do such activity, which undeniably, requires enough actual efforts? Well, perhaps, maybe there is some sort of mysteriousness surrounding such individual; maybe there is a concealment of one's real true strength. But how about those who really do nothing, except of just going on with the flow? How about those who let others to punch the hell out of their faces but didn't make any effort to do something for it, maybe to somehow compensate such punch with another one (perhaps much stronger than the other one)? 

The thing is, actually, there is an activeness present in passiveness. One can actually be firm by not being firm. Absurd isn't it? But actually, it is not. For example: In a fist-fight, let's say you are punched hardly in the head. Now, if you are to punch back, it just means that you felt something, that you are hurt. Thus, you are not really strong, for the fact that you (or your body) considered such punch to be hurtful. I mean, if you are really strong, you will not react. It is that you are so strong that such punch was actually too pewee for your body not to somehow react or feel something. Therefore, the real tough man, because of his excessive toughness, will never consider anything tougher than him in order for him to do something about it. And that is what Lao Tzu, as for my interpretation, referred in Tao Te Ching, 76: It is that, the real strong, when faced with a snag, will appear weak but is actually too strong enough not to shift his mode from weak to strong, because such snag is only too small that it could be faced with a weak aura or force, and not with a strong one.