Tao
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- noun
- /taʊ/
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tao
- Taoist philosophy predicates that ch'i can be balanced in accordance with the Tao, or nature's way.
- Tao Te Ching
- glimpse the Tao
Call it the Tao, call it God, call it soul, and come to know it.
- Call it the Tao, call it God, call it soul, and come to know it.
- You know the Tao, it starts by saying, it starts by saying the, the, the Tao that you can say is not the eternal Dao.
- So Taoism is about the Tao, which is the way, which is this kind of mystical kind of fundamental force which underpins everything.
- Now, the Dao De Ching Tao, it's pronounced D, but it's Tao Tao.
- If you want to find those for free, you can just search The Tao of Seneca.
- So in, in in this particular sequence, Tao being associated with the muse, he's basically defenseless.
Examples
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As chapter 55 of the Tao Te Ching states, "... to know the eternal is to have insight....
Academic text (2000) -
We know this: the Tao is not a religion (it's more of a magic and/or an ethics): no God.
Academic text (2005) -
It's the Tao of Love.
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And the only way to live properly is to make your mind completely empty and let the Tao the way pull you along.
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If you want to find those for free, you can just search The Tao of Seneca.
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The Tao, he reminds himself, mired in traffic on Post Street, is older than God.
Fiction book (2000) -
So Taoism is about the Tao, which is the way, which is this kind of mystical kind of fundamental force which underpins everything.
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The story of the rainmaker is a metaphor that describes the interrelationship between synchronicity, the Tao, and the individual.
Academic text (1993) -
In feng shui, the Tao is an ongoing preoccupation of the feng shui practitioner.
Blog text (25) -
In Taoism, following the Tao is believed to lead to harmony with nature.
Synonyms
A natural way that shows how life and the world work
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tao comes from the Chinese character 道, which means 'way' or 'path'. So thinking of the Tao as the 'way' helps you remember that it is the natural path or principle that guides how to live in harmony with the universe.