To the Chinese what is highest, the origin of things, is nothingness, emptiness, the altogether undetermined, the abstract universal, and this is also called Tao.
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Before Confucius, the term "Tao" usually meant a road, or a way of action.
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Confucius used it as a philosophical concept standing for the right way of action - moral, social, and political.
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The Taoist used the term "Tao" to stand for the totality of all things, equivalent to what some philosophers* have called "The Absolute."
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The "Tao" was the basic stuff out of which all things were made. It was simple, formless, desireless, without striving, supremely content.
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In Tao Te Ching, the gospel of Taoism, Lao Tzu pointed out to us the value of gentleness.