What is the Tao?

Before I properly begin this rather difficult post, I should start with the opening lines of the Tao Te Ching (道德经), the seminal text of both Taoist philosophy and Taoist religion, and written by it's founder Lao Tzu (老子). The Way [Tao] that can be told of is not the Unvarying Way [Tao]; The name that can be named …

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