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Tao (道 literally the Way or the Path; pronounced "Dāo"), often translated as The Principle, is a basic element in Chinese philosophy. It is the ever-lasting essential and fundamental force that runs through all matter in the Universe, living or not. It is most often associated with Taoism, but Confucianism also refers to it. To put it simply the tao is. An understanding of the Tao may be approached (see note) as a certain resonance residing in the negative space created by glamorous objects. At the same time it flows through the glamourous objects to form the immediacy that they create. It is thus said (in the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu c.604 - c.521 BCE ) to nurture all things: to create a pattern in the chaos. The signature characteristic of this pattern is "unfulfillable longing," to borrow a phrase from Amadeus. Taoist philosophers therefore ascribed to it the quality of change, and artwork attempting to reproduce it is characterized by flaws.
In describing Tao, the following analogy has been used: Imagine a person walking on a road. A bamboo pole is carried, resting on the person's shoulder. On the end of the pole two buckets are suspended. The buckets are likened to Yin Yang|yin and yang. The pole is Taiji, the entity integrating the two. The road is Tao. Tao is spoken of in many ways in the Tao Te Ching. The following interpolation of the first stanza is based on five of the best known translations:
---- Tao (ethnic)|Tao is the native name of the Taiwanese Austronesian indigenes formerly known as the Yami. It means "people".
reli-stub zh-cn:道 (法则) nl:Tao de:Dao sv:Tao fr:Tao pl:Tao it:Tao This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tao".
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