![]() "The Tao that can be spoken of is not the constant Tao. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and Under these two aspects, it is really the same īut as development takes place, it receives the different names. Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.Ĭonceived of as having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth Ĭonceived of as having a name, it is the Mother of all things. "The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. Must have its own existence, which is different from the existence ofĪnd so again we have to recognize an existence If Nature is inexpressible, he who desires to know Nature as it is in itself will not try to express it in wordsĪlthough the existence of Nature and a description of that existence are two different things, yet they are also the same. Order to speak of it, we must use words, we shall have to describe it as ![]() Happens, all that comes and goes, begins and ends, is and is not.ĭescribe Nature as "the ultimate source of all" is still only aĭescription, and such a description is not Nature itself. It is Nature itself, and not any part or name or descriptionĪbstracted from Nature, which is the ultimate source of all that "Nature can never be completely described, for such a description of
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