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The first chapter of the Tao Te Ching ---What's the Tao?

[color=blue][color=#000000]What's the Tao?[/color][/color]
[color=blue]The "Tao" is too great to be described by the name "Tao".
If it could be named so simply, it would not be the eternal Tao.[/color]
Heaven and Earth began from the nameless (Tao),
but the multitudes of things around us were created by names.
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see,
but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
When we see beyond the desire to use names,
we can sense the nameless cause of these effects.
The cause and the effects are aspects of the same, one thing.
They are both mysterious and profound.
At their most mysterious and profound point lies the "Gate of the Great Truth".


[color=blue][font=隶书][size=3][color=#000000]“道”是可以用言语来表述的，它并非一般的“道”;[/color][/size][/font][/color]
[color=blue][font=隶书][size=3][color=#000000]“名”也是可以说明的，它并非普通的“名”;[/color][/size][/font][/color]
[color=blue][font=隶书][size=3][color=#000000]“无”可以用来表述天地浑沌未开之际的状况；[/color][/size][/font][/color]
[color=blue][font=隶书][size=3][color=#000000]而“有”，则是宇宙万物产生之本原的命名。[/color][/size][/font][/color]

[color=blue][font=隶书][size=3][color=#000000]因此，要常从“无”中去观察领悟“道”的奥妙；要常从“有”中去观察体会“道”的端倪。无与有这两者，来源相同而名称相异，都可以称之为玄妙、深远。它不是一般的玄妙、深奥，而是玄妙又玄妙、深远又深远，是宇宙天地万物之奥妙的总门.[/color][/size][/font][/color]