from reading Toa Te Ching, The Tao is the ineffable essence and presence off all things and no thing, it is that which cannot be spoken of which connects and bonds all things to nothing. It is the true nature of being and it is being itself. It is the path without beginning or end etc.
Sent from an iPhone On 5 Mar 2011, at 05:46, "YouWho?" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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...
