What is the Dao?

[superdao]

Can we talk about the Dao with our limited human senses?

[taijistudent]

Absolutely. It is your inner flow of time (duration) that you sense while learning and creating. It cannot be put into words but you can feel it.

[ChiDragon]

Can we talk about the Dao with our limited human senses?

 

Of course not, you have to read and study the Tao Te Ching to find out how Tao was defined. Tao is not just in thin air for us to grab.

[Marblehead]

Chuang Tzu suggested that we cannot talk about the unknowable but we can talk about those attributes we are able to understand.

 

So my answer is yes and no.

[Basher]

We nearly all have a (natural) habit of defining "new" knowledge, based on what we already (think) we know.

So we pidgeon-hole stuff into safe little boxes...

 

This is Science, this is Religeon, etc etc.

 

Unfortunately, the Tao doesn't fit into our neat, ordered, world view.

 

We cannot change the Tao, we need to alter our thoughts and way of thinking.

 

Basher

[Stosh]

One can hear the brush of a breeze on fallen leaves

yet not see the wind itself .

[Marblehead]

One can hear the brush of a breeze on fallen leaves

yet not see the wind itself .

Hehehe. That's a Chuang Tzu story too.

Edited March 14, 2013 by Marblehead

[Stosh]

Foiled again!

[Marblehead]

Foiled again!

You're doing fine. I just like to point out whenever I see a concept spoken to that Chuang Tzu had already spoken to. Lots of nice stories in that book.

[Stosh]

Yeah , there are , and though I dont remember (or even get them all )chunks are probably rumaging around in my braincase.

[Marblehead]

... chunks are probably rumaging around in my braincase.

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger with that one. Lots of stuff in our unconscious mind that we have no idea where it came from and we all too often think it is our original thought.