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| <blockquote class="definition">The '''Daido jing''' (3rd century B.C.E.), also known as the ''Laozi'' after its alleged original author, is the original classic text upon which Taoism is built.<ref>Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993.</ref> It describes the Tao (in LP terms [[Undifferentiated Consciousness]])) and its operations as it unfolds and creates the universe. </blockquote>
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| ==Related Terms==
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| [[Taoism]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Taoism]]}}
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| ==Text Snippets==
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| The Tao that can be told
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| Is not the eternal Tao.
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| The name that can be named
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| Is not the eternal name.
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| The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth;
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| The named is the mother of the myriad beings.
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| Always remain free from desires—
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| And you can see its wonder.
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| Always cherish desires
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| And you can only observe its outcome
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| Both these develop together
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| But have different names;
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| They are part of the mystery.
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| ...
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| The Tao is empty.
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| Use it, It will never overflow;
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| Abysmal it is
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| The ancestor of all beings.
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| ...
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| Highest goodness is like water.<ref>See the LP concept [[Alignment]]</ref>
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| It benefits the myriad beings
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| And never contends.
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| By never contending
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| It is without fault.
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| It rests in what the multitude disdain,
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| Thus it is close to the Tao.
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| Rest in goodness like you stand on the earth,
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| Make your mind as good as the abyss is deep.
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| Join goodness to become fully benevolent,
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| Speak pure goodness for mutual trust.
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| Be straight in goodness when you govern,
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| Serve goodness as much as you can,
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| Then you will move with goodness at all times.
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| ...
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| Look at it and do not see it:
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| We call it invisible.
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| Listen to it and do not hear it:
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| We call it inaudible.
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| Touch it and do not feel it:
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| We call it subtle.[[Related Term]]
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| These three cannot be better understood,
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| They merge and become one.
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| Infinite and boundless, it cannot be named.
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| It belongs to where there are no beings.
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| It may be called the shape of no-shape,
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| It may be called the form of no-form.
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| ...
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| Know the eternal and forgive; <ref>Again, [[Alignment]].
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| Forgive and be altruistic.
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| Be altruistic and embrace all;
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| Embrace all and be like heaven.
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| Be like heaven and merge with the Tao,
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| One with the Tao, you will last long.
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| You may die but will never perish, (chap. 16).
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| Forgiveness of great virtue
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| Flows from the Tao alone.
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| ...<ref>Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993.</ref>
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