J'ai Ã©videmment beaucoup de sympathie pour les Names qui ont subi ces pertes de souscription, parmi lesquels figurent certains de mes amis, y compris le parrain et la marraine de l'un de mes enfants.
Tao, the pathless Way, has a gateless Gate which, just as the Equator separates the Northern from the Southern hemisphere, illusorily separates and unites the phenomenal and the noumenal, samsara and nirvana. It is the open road of escape from solitary confinement in the dungeon of individuality.
There have been several such ways in China's long history, including Confucianism and Buddhism. In about the 6th century BC, under the influence of ideas credited to a man named Lao-tzu, Taoism became the way. like Confucianism, it has influenced every aspect of Chinese culture.