"We cannot teach Tao, we have to cultivate it within us
the way that Tao can be spoken, is not the right way,
the name that can be named, is not the right name."
"There was something formless yet complete,
That existed before heaven and earth,
Without sound, without substance,
Depended on nothing, unchanging,
All pervading, unfailing,
One may think of it as the mother of
all things under heaven,
Its true name I do not know;
Tao is the name I give it."
Tao Teh Ching - Lao Tze "The Old Sage"
"People follow the Earth,
Earth follows Heaven,
Heaven follows the Tao,
The Tao follows what is natural."
Tao Te Ching
Tao - Dào - D'âu - "The Way or The Path - Essence of the Universe, Natural Order of Existence; The Right Way of Existence.”
"If the principles of Tao are not followed, there are
consequences comparable to Karma."
Teh - Power
Ching - Book
Tao Teh Ching - Book of the Way and its Power
The ancient Chinese Books of the I Ching and the Tao Teh Ching refer to Tao as the "unnamed Tao," something that cannot be expressed or understood; the flow of the universe, the essence that keeps the universe balanced is related to Qi or Chi.
Harmony
"Yesterday is history, Today is a mystery, Tomorrow a gift."
- Tao is like water; self-replenishing, soft and quiet but powerful, and impassively generous
- Tao T’ung – tradition of “the Way”
- Te – “power; virtue; integrity” term used to refer to proper adherence to Tao; Te is the cultivation of the way.
- Jen – humanity
Emptiness is the Tao.Tao is equated with the Absolute.
Wang Fu-Chih expressed the Tao as T'ai Chi: the Great Ultimate, as well as the road leading to it.
Tao is a non-religious concept; it is not a deity to be worshiped, nor is it absolute.
T'ai Chi (Taiji) takes the concepts of Tao, the way of life; a discipline, not a religion, focusing on human nature and righteousness.
T’ai Chi takes the concepts of Tao, the way of life; “a discipline, not a religion, focusing on human nature and righteousness.”
Earliest written forms of Dào: script characters from Zhou Dynasty 1045-256 B.C.E.
"The cause of all misery is *ignorance...
it is ignorance that makes us hate each other,
it is through ignorance that we do not know each other."
Swami Vivekananda
*ignorance of understanding others beliefs and ignorance of what we have in common with religions other than our own.
Bagua is the symbol that represents the Tao and its pursuit.
Earliest written forms of dào: script characters from Zhou Dynasty 1045-256 B.C.E.
Pakua or Bagua - Bruno Colet - Wikipedia
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