Tao is a word, a concept having different meanings according to the conceiver.
Tao is Purusha/Prakriti, or Shiva/Shakti, MoolaMaya - the primordial Illusion. If you conceive it to be a way or path, it is a way or path, if you conceive it to be nothing, it is nothing(avidya), if you conceive it to be That which is non-conceptual, that concept can lead non- conceptual understanding. One can argue that all understanding is by nature conceptual, but there is an understanding that is pointed to in concept and yet is a non-conceptual understanding, which is reflected in conceptual understanding of that which is non-conceptual. Enigmatic? Only conceptually so...
