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06-12-2005, 11:09 PM
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How do you perceive Tao?
How do you perceive Tao? Is it balance, the flow, the encompassment of all things, the great void, the ultimate source, the force, etc...?
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#2
06-12-2005, 11:21 PM
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Isn't the idea that once it is perceived it is misunderstood?
I guess the "inevitably misunderstood" would be my answer.
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#3
06-12-2005, 11:44 PM
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The Tao (or the Force) is. Thats how I like to think of it.
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06-13-2005, 12:02 AM
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The concept of Tao is a sophisticated metaphore for existence, but it's just a metaphore. It is no more nor no less accurate than some other metaphors.
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Then I came back from where I'd been. My room, it looked the same - but there was nothing left between The Nameless and the name. - Leonard Cohen.
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06-13-2005, 12:06 AM
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Well, I did have to look it up; I wasn't too sure of the 'entire' meaning of Tao; good thing I did, too!
Tao represents the basic concept of Taoism. In general, this term belongs to the spiritual atmosphere of the ancient China and can be translated "way", "mean", "art", "skill". For the Taoists, the same term alludes, in the late speculations, to an originary order of the universe, to the Beginning , the Origin of all the things or other similar concepts. In the "Book of Changes", Tao is said to represent "a yin and a yang". He is, more precisely, a moving phenomena including alternation of contraries, like day and night. 
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06-13-2005, 12:29 AM
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Good answers everyone. Very good. I love Lloyds answer by the way. Very insightful. Even if Tao is just a metaphore, or a symbol. A metaphor or symbol always represents something. What does it represent?
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I go forth with bare feet, and a simple spirit. Lord have mercy on me. beati pauperes spiritu †
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06-13-2005, 12:40 AM
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Then I came back from where I'd been. My room, it looked the same - but there was nothing left between The Nameless and the name. - Leonard Cohen.
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06-13-2005, 10:38 AM
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I'm having a tough time trying to put the concept of the Tao into words, but I think it might be best described as the force behind all change. It is the fluxuation of yin and yang. The harmony inherent in all things. Both the outcome of acting in accordance with nature, and the force that propels one to act in such a way. Tao is the way to harmony, and harmony itself.
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06-13-2005, 01:00 PM
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06-13-2005, 02:53 PM
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While in some eyes it may be seen as oversimplification, in other eyes it may be seen as too complicated. How about this thought, what if "oversimplification" is the perfect amount of simplification to balance everything out? What if we are too overcomplicated, and the only way we as humans can find peace in this "simple" world is to be oversimplified. Which in actuality isn't oversimplified at all, it just seems that way because we are used to being overcomplicated.
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