\u201cIn the beginning was the Word . . .\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet Tao Te Ching<\/em> begins with a starkly contrasting line that roughly translates as, Mindful of the paradox of using words and images to approach Tao, I invite you to enter this book with a spirit of adventure. Explore with me this Tao that has over the past few decades come from the Far East into our Western world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is from the first page of my 2018 book,<\/em> A Rainbow of Tao<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here in the West, language structures our world into objects and actions. We have nouns and we have verbs. Among the nouns we make a distinction between the \u201cwhats\u201d and the \u201cwhos,\u201d between inanimate things and living beings. Translations from Chinese usually treat Tao as a noun; however, Tao cannot be so neatly categorized. It … Continue reading “Who is Tao?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-excerpts","category-tao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u201cThe Tao that can be put into words is not the real Tao.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/eheart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rbtao-cover3.jpg\")
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