Tao didn't give birth to One. Tao is a verb

[Marblehead]

That's really putting the chemical into alchemical Taoism. 

 

Hehehe.  I really try to stay away from that but on occasion I must say things so that any who read me will better understand my understandings.

 

Elemental, Dear Watson.

[Gerry]

Yep.  There are cycles all over the place.  We each are one:  Birth - Life - Death.

 

Ha!  My recarnation friends will ping me on this but I have argued the concept before and am willing to do so again.

Reincarnation is the noble ideal and nothing but the projection of men.

[vonkrankenhaus]

Tao means "Way" - like saying "the Way things happen".

 

This is about "change" - how change happens.

 

So it is like saying:

 

"The Way things happen, even nothing will change, and the only way nothing can change is to become something".

 

That "something" is the first "thing".

 

All "things" also changing, bifurcating, dividing - appearing as "two".

 

Tao is not a "thing".

 

It is the way a "thing" appear and disappear.

 

Like the Way of making toast can be said to have "give birth to" toast.

 

It is just a convenience in thinking and talking.

 

 

 

 

 

- VonKrankenhaus