Alan Watts The Taoist Way |
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"When a fool hears about Tao, he just laughs and laughs. If he didn't laugh, it wouldn't be Tao." - Tao te Ching
The Tao is “The way of nature.” hence it is “The way”. The Daode jing, which is the alternative spelling of the “Tao Te Ching,” The book of Tao, also refers to Tao as something that existed "Before Heaven and Earth," or another interpretation of the Tao is “The source,” or The Void, Nothing, Empty, Zero, or The Infinite. This isn’t too surprising since mathematics had no concept of ‘Zero’ at the time. It is nothing but also the source of everything. This concept is hard to grasp due to the dogma, “Something can’t come from nothing.” It sounds contradicting, yet, something has to come from nothing, because starting at nothing is a perfectly valid position. Quantum physicist discovered empty space isn’t so empty. Head over to Veritasium on youtube where you will be able to watch videos that demonstrate that “Empty Space is NOT Empty.” The name Tao was just to reference, “The way.” for there are no words to describe the source of all things. Oddly, no words are able to describe it because words were its creation, so how can something created by another describe what it was that created its own creator? You can think of Taoist as early scientist, much like how Isaac Newton discovered gravity and observed its principles. The Taoist is covered “The way of nature” and observed its principles, and created many tools to help us understand nature. 0. The Tao: The source 1. Change: Within all things lies “The seed of change.” “Nothing stays the same.” 2. Duality: Yin Yang; Binary Opposition, The principle of balance. 4. Cycle: Beginning - Rising - Falling - Ending. Like the 4 seasons. 8. Present time, Forward time and Backward time = Eternity. Being totally present gives us Eternal Life. Time is not linear, because all time exists here and now. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” said Jesus, and what he meant was that he was so expert at being present in the moment that he could straddle the future, the past and the present all at once. Jesus also said he was The Way, and when he said it, he meant The Tao. “EVERYTHING” follows these principles. Systems, People, Things. Become an observer and use reason to learn the truth. Alan Wilson Watts - January 6, 1915 to November 16, 1973 - was a British philosopher, writer, speaker, and student of comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. |