Tao | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-10-04

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:30 1 Description and uses of the concept
00:05:58 1.1 De
00:07:32 2 Religious, philosophical, and cultural interpretations
00:07:45 2.1 Taoist interpretations
00:09:11 2.1.1 Diversity of views
00:12:54 2.2 Confucian interpretations
00:14:29 2.3 Buddhist interpretations
00:16:47 2.4 Neo-Confucian interpretations
00:18:24 2.5 Christian Interpretations
00:19:34 3 Linguistic aspects
00:20:01 3.1 Characters
00:23:57 3.2 Pronunciation
00:25:41 3.3 Meanings
00:27:19 3.4 Etymologies
00:30:23 3.5 Loanwords
00:32:14 4 See also



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Tao (, ) or Dao ( DOW; from Chinese: 道; pinyin: Dào [tâu] (listen)) is a Chinese word signifying "way", "path", "route", "road" or sometimes more loosely "doctrine", "principle" or "holistic beliefs". In the context of East Asian philosophy and East Asian religions, Tao is the natural order of the universe whose character one's human intuition must discern in order to realize the potential for individual wisdom. This intuitive knowing of "life" cannot be grasped as a concept; it is known through actual living experience of one's everyday being.
Laozi in the Tao Te Ching explains that the Tao is not a "name" for a "thing" but the underlying natural order of the Universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe due to it being non-conceptual yet evident in one's being of aliveness. The Tao is "eternally nameless" (Tao Te Ching-32. Laozi) and to be distinguished from the countless "named" things which are considered to be its manifestations, the reality of life before its descriptions of it.
The Tao lends its name to the religious tradition (Wade–Giles, Tao Chiao; Pinyin, Daojiao) and philosophical tradition (Wade–Giles, Tao chia; Pinyin, Daojia) that are both referred to in English with the single term Taoism.