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Tao

Marble

Rolling Marble
Most people think this is the symbol for Tao:

taoism-02_leading.jpg


But is it not rather the symbol for Yin-Yang?
Is Tao Yin-Yang, or their source?
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Most people think this is the symbol for Tao:

taoism-02_leading.jpg


But is it not rather the symbol for Yin-Yang?
Is Tao Yin-Yang, or their source?

I think it is meant to resemble one of the most fundamental concepts of Tao, opposites make a unity.

There is a white dot in a black, a black dot in the white, meaning we cannot know darkness without light or the other way around.
 

wmjbyatt

Lunatic from birth
That symbol is the called a "taijitu," and the taijitu represents yin and yang. You could say that it's the Tao, but the Tao is the source of and is manifest entirely in everything, both particularly and collectively. I personally think it'd just be confusing to say that the taijitu represents the Tao, but doing so would not strictly be incorrect, as such.

But then, I think it's just confusing to talk about the Tao, so there ya go.
 
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