Everything is not the thing itself, the sun and the moon are self-evident, the stars are self-ordered, animals are self-made, the wind is self-driven, water flows by itself, plants are self-planted, breathing does not breathe, the heartbeat does not beat, and so on.
Because all things are not things, they all follow something without exception. It is the root of change, immortal, intangible, without image, without beginning or end, and all-encompassing. Nothing more than big, nothing more than small, changing with time and never changing. At first unknown, "Laozi" had a strong name: "Tao".
The expansion of data channels comes from the Tao Te Ching written by Laozi, which says that "Tao can be Tao, which is extraordinary, and its name can be named, which is extraordinary", and there is another explanation that "things are mixed and naturally born. Independent and unchanging, it can be the mother of heaven and earth. I don't know its name, it is a powerful name. "
When translating the Bible, I also borrowed this word to say that "in the beginning, there was a Tao, and the Tao was with God", and the Tao was God. From the beginning, Tao existed before there was time and world, and Tao was eternal.
The "extraordinary Tao" in "Tao can be Tao, extraordinary Tao" is not eternal.
There are three kinds of understanding:
(1) The way of being a saint can be taken, but it is not the only unchangeable way; True fame can be pursued, but it is not the fame that ordinary people have been pursuing.
(2) Tao can be said, but it is not an eternal Tao. Everything can be named, but it is not the eternal name of everything.
(3) Tao itself follows a certain "Tao", but this "Tao" is not the most basic Tao that can be observed at ordinary times. Although this "Tao" does exist, it cannot be explained by the existing dimension of Tao.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Dao