TAO might be an acronym or abbreviation for: * Tactics Arena Online * Tao Cheng * Tao Huang * Tao Feng * Tao Peng * Tao Te King * Tao Wu * Tao Yang * Taoism Asian philosophy * TAO (software), The Adaptive Communication Environment Object request broker * technical account owner * Track at once - CD burning method * triacetyloleandomycin * Wang Tao
:''Alternative meanings: Tao (chess), Dao (sword), Shining Force, Dao (political), an administrative division in ancient China'' Tao (Chinese 道, pinyin "dāo") refers to a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion. Most debates between proponents of one of the Hundred Schools of Thought could be summarised in the simple question: who is closer to the Tao, or, in other words, whose "Tao" is the most powerful? As used in modern spoken and written Chinese, the character 道 (do) is 首 (shǒu) 'head' and 辶 (辵 chu) 'go' (Source: Wenlin), and has a wide scope of meaning. Tao may be rendered as ''morality,'' ''knowledge,'' ''rationality,'' ''path,'' or ''taste'': its semantics vary widely depending on the context. The philosophic and religious use of the character can be analysed in two main segments: one meaning is "doctrine", and every school owns and defends a specific Tao, or doctrine. In the other meaning, there is only one Tao, that is the full processes of the universe and its constituent parts; the energy feeding its constant change, and emptiness. This meaning is the very one used by a specific school of thought, said Taoism (the "School of Tao" in Chinese). However, the Tao as understood in Taoism is a mystical concept that can't be defined with other words, especially in non-Chinese language. The present article focuses on this Tao of Taoism. An understanding of the Tao may be ''approached'' as a certain resonance residing in the negative space created by glamorous objects. At the same time it flows through the glamourous objects to form the immediacy that they create. It is thus said (in the ''Tao Te Ching'' by Lao Tzu c.604 - c.521 BCE ) to nurture all things: to create a pattern in the chaos. The signature characteristic of this pattern is "unfulfillable longing," to borrow a phrase from ''Amadeus''. Taoist philosophers therefore ascribed to it the quality of change, and artwork attempting to reproduce it is characterized by flaws. In describing Tao, the following analogy has been used: Imagine a person walking on a road. A bamboo pole is carried, resting on the person's shoulder. On the end of the pole two buckets are suspended. The buckets are likened to Yin Yang. The pole is Taiji, the entity integrating the two. The road is Tao. Tao is spoken of in many ways in the ''Tao Te Ching''. The following interpolation of the first stanza is based on five of the best known translations: :''The Tao that can be known is not Tao. :''The substance of the World is only a name for Tao. :''Tao is all that exists and may exist; ::''the World is only a map of what exists and may exist. :''One experiences without Self to sense the World, ::''and experiences with Self to understand the World. :''The two experiences are the same within Tao; ::''they are distinct only within the World. :''Neither experience conveys Tao ::''which is infinitely greater and more subtle than the World.'' :::—''Tao Te Ching (1)'' Based on an interpolation by Peter Merel of translations by Lin Yutang, Ch'u Ta-Kao, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English, Richard Wilhelm and Aleister Crowley.[http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-ex.html] ====Notes==== # The Tao, by its very nature cannot be understood; if it could be understood, it would not be Tao (as described in the excerpt from the ''Tao Te Ching'', above). ---- Tao (ethnic) is the native name of the Taiwanese Austronesian indigenes formerly known as the Yami. It means "people". ==See also== * ''Taoism'' * ''Tao Te Ching'' * Lao Zi * Jeung san do 甑山道 Taoism zh-cn:道 (法则)
Some guy removed the content and redirected this page to Taoism, as if Tao = Taoism, or as if the term could be adequately covered in that page. His reason was "unncessary page". If Tao is a principal only used by Taoists, then, perhaps. But Tao is also an important doctrine used by the Confucianists. And Confucianism != Taoism. They both it it, and they both use it differently. Maybe the way currently the page has it is insufficient, but Tao != Taoism. --User:Menchi 23:26, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Separate page? == To define the Tao one must bridge the gap between object and perception since the Tao is by nature a non-dualistic entity, so maybe having a separate page from Taoism is unnecessary. I'm not comfortable giving up my dualistic prejudices, though, so a separate page about the actual Tao might be useful to distinguish it from the practice of Taoist ideas. :* I have corrected the misspelling "seperate" in the comment above. --User:Dontbeakakke 20:58, May 27, 2005 (UTC) == Flaws == To say that artwork representing tao is flawed doesn't specify whether the flaws are intentional or not. So I like "artwork attempting to convey the Tao is characterized by flaws" to make the distinction. ==Tao or Dao== User 206.116.41.75 added the following paragraph to the article: :''It is unknown why the Tao (Dao) is sometimes spelt with a 'T', Tao. Both ways are accepted, however spelling with a 'D' mat be prevailing, because that is the way it is pronounced. If one compares the muscular pronounciation of Dao or Tao, they will conclude that pronoucing it with a 'D' is slightly less effort, which is one principal of the Dao''. There has been an extensive discussion on the use of "Dao" vs. "Tao," (or Daoism vs. Taoism) which can be found at Talk:Taoism. Essentially, the debate centres on the common English usage ("Tao") and Chinese pronunciation (which sounds more like "Dao"). A good summary of the phonetics involved (taken from the Talk: Taoism page) is the following: :''... (W)hen a Chinese native says the Chinese word, a native of English will hear what he thinks is "Dao", though it isn't. In Mandarin, there're two versions of "t": with/without aspiration, but no "d" at all. In English, on the other hand, "t" at the beginning of a word is pronounced with aspiration, "d" without. The Chinese consonant in question lacks aspiration AND voice, so it has one feature from English "t" (lack of voice) and one from English "d" (lack of aspiration). In this particular context it often renders itself as "d" in the English speaker's consciousness, but it is still not "d", and objectively from a phonetical point of view it's as far from English "d" as it is from English "t".'' I propose that we avoid discussion of the pronunciation of the word in the article on Tao. However, there has been discussion of adding a page on "Spelling of Dao/Daoism." That makes sense to me if someone who knows the linguistics wants to work on it. For now, I've removed the paragraph from the article. I'm also going to do a redirect from Dao to Tao. User:Sunray 20:34, 2005 Feb 4 (UTC) == Tao Austronesian Indigenes Disambiguation == I propose that this comment: Tao (ethnic) is the native name of the Taiwanese Austronesian indigenes formerly known as the Yami. It means "people". be removed, as it is wholly irrelevant, and a disambiguation page be created. --User:Dontbeakakke 20:55, May 27, 2005 (UTC) :It could just be added to the top, minus the "it means people" part, but perhaps there are enough links at the top of the page to warrant a seperate disambig page where they can all go, with one link at the top of this page to the disambig . . . --User:Heah User_talk:Heah 21:19, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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Words begining with TAO:
TAO
Tao
Tao
Tao-Klarjeti
Tao-Kuang
Tao-Te-Ching
Tao-te-ching
Tao-Te_Ching
Tao-Yuan
Tao-yuan
Tao-Yan
Tao-yan
TAOCP
Taogebra
Taoiseach
Taoiseach
Taoiseach's_residence
Taoiseach_of_Ireland
Taoisigh
Taoisigh_na_hireann
Taoism
Taoism
Taoism
Taoism/Archive_1
Taoism_in_Singapore
Taoism_vs._Daoism
Taoist
Taoists
Taoists
Taoist_canon
Taoist_diet
Taoist_diet
Taoist_Food
Taoist_Food
Taoist_Immortals
Taoist_temples_in_Hong_Kong
Taoist_texts
Taoka_Kazuo
Taolinux
Taomaster
Taomon
Taon
Taon
Taonga
Taongi_Atoll
Taonoui
TaoPaiPai
TaoPaiPai
Taopi,_Minnesota
Taopi,_MN
Taormina
Taormina
Taos
Taos,_Missouri
Taos,_MO
Taos,_New_Mexico
Taos,_NM
Taosk8r
Taoster
Taoster
Taoster/Fenshou
Taoster/Power_Station
Taoster/Power_Station
Taoster/Test
Taos_art_colony
Taos_County
Taos_County,_New_Mexico
Taos_County,_New_Mexico
Taos_County,_New_Mexico
Taos_County,_NM
Taos_Hum
Taos_Hum
Taos_hum
Taos_Peak
Taos_Plateau_volcanic_field
Taos_Pueblo
Taos_Pueblo
Taos_Pueblo,_New_Mexico
Taos_Pueblo,_NM
Taos_Rebellion
Taos_Ski_Valley,_New_Mexico
Taos_Ski_Valley,_NM
Taotao_Mona
Taotao_Mona
TaoTehChingTalk
Taoudenni
Taouk
Taouk
Taouk_family_of_Lebanon
Taouk_family_of_Lebanon
Taoyateduta
Taoyuan
Taoyuan_City
Taoyuan_County
Taoyuan_County
Taoyuan_County
Toyun_County
Taoyuan_County,_Hunan
Taoyuan_County,_Hunan
Taoyuan_County_(Taiwan)
Taoyuan_County_(Taiwan)
Taoyuan_International_Airport
Taoyuan_Xian
Toyun_Xin
Taoyan
Tao_(disambiguation)
Tao_(ethnic)
TAO_(software)
TAO_(software)
Tao_Chi
Tao_Chien
Tao_Ching
Tao_Ho
Tao_Jun
Tao_Len
Tao_Nan_School
Tao_of_Pooh
Tao_of_Pooh
Tao_Qian
To_Qin
Tao_Ren
Tao_Shan
Tao_Shan
Tao_Teh_Ching
Tao_Teh_Ching
Tao_teh_ching
Tao_Te_Ching
Tao_Te_Ching
Tao_te_Ching
Tao_te_ching
Tao_Yang
Tao_Yang
Tao_Yang(I)
Tao_Yang(II)
Tao_Yang_(computer_scientist)
Tao_Yang_(yangs)
Tao_Yin
Tao_Yuanming
To_Yuanmng
TAO
TAO might be an acronym or abbreviation for: * Tactics Arena Online * Tao Cheng * Tao Huang * Tao Feng * Tao Peng * Tao Te King * Tao Wu * Tao Yang * Taoism Asian philosophy * TAO (software), The Adaptive Communication Environment Object request broker * technical account owner * Track at once - CD burning method * triacetyloleandomycin * Wang Tao
Tao
:''Alternative meanings: Tao (chess), Dao (sword), Shining Force, Dao (political), an administrative division in ancient China'' Tao (Chinese 道, pinyin "dāo") refers to a Chinese character that was of pivotal meaning in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion. Most debates between proponents of one of the Hundred Schools of Thought could be summarised in the simple question: who is closer to the Tao, or, in other words, whose "Tao" is the most powerful? As used in modern spoken and written Chinese, the character 道 (do) is 首 (shǒu) 'head' and 辶 (辵 chu) 'go' (Source: Wenlin), and has a wide scope of meaning. Tao may be rendered as ''morality,'' ''knowledge,'' ''rationality,'' ''path,'' or ''taste'': its semantics vary widely depending on the context. The philosophic and religious use of the character can be analysed in two main segments: one meaning is "doctrine", and every school owns and defends a specific Tao, or doctrine. In the other meaning, there is only one Tao, that is the full processes of the universe and its constituent parts; the energy feeding its constant change, and emptiness. This meaning is the very one used by a specific school of thought, said Taoism (the "School of Tao" in Chinese). However, the Tao as understood in Taoism is a mystical concept that can't be defined with other words, especially in non-Chinese language. The present article focuses on this Tao of Taoism. An understanding of the Tao may be ''approached'' as a certain resonance residing in the negative space created by glamorous objects. At the same time it flows through the glamourous objects to form the immediacy that they create. It is thus said (in the ''Tao Te Ching'' by Lao Tzu c.604 - c.521 BCE ) to nurture all things: to create a pattern in the chaos. The signature characteristic of this pattern is "unfulfillable longing," to borrow a phrase from ''Amadeus''. Taoist philosophers therefore ascribed to it the quality of change, and artwork attempting to reproduce it is characterized by flaws. In describing Tao, the following analogy has been used: Imagine a person walking on a road. A bamboo pole is carried, resting on the person's shoulder. On the end of the pole two buckets are suspended. The buckets are likened to Yin Yang. The pole is Taiji, the entity integrating the two. The road is Tao. Tao is spoken of in many ways in the ''Tao Te Ching''. The following interpolation of the first stanza is based on five of the best known translations: :''The Tao that can be known is not Tao. :''The substance of the World is only a name for Tao. :''Tao is all that exists and may exist; ::''the World is only a map of what exists and may exist. :''One experiences without Self to sense the World, ::''and experiences with Self to understand the World. :''The two experiences are the same within Tao; ::''they are distinct only within the World. :''Neither experience conveys Tao ::''which is infinitely greater and more subtle than the World.'' :::—''Tao Te Ching (1)'' Based on an interpolation by Peter Merel of translations by Lin Yutang, Ch'u Ta-Kao, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English, Richard Wilhelm and Aleister Crowley.[http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-ex.html] ====Notes==== # The Tao, by its very nature cannot be understood; if it could be understood, it would not be Tao (as described in the excerpt from the ''Tao Te Ching'', above). ---- Tao (ethnic) is the native name of the Taiwanese Austronesian indigenes formerly known as the Yami. It means "people". ==See also== * ''Taoism'' * ''Tao Te Ching'' * Lao Zi * Jeung san do 甑山道 Taoism zh-cn:道 (法则)
Tao
Some guy removed the content and redirected this page to Taoism, as if Tao = Taoism, or as if the term could be adequately covered in that page. His reason was "unncessary page". If Tao is a principal only used by Taoists, then, perhaps. But Tao is also an important doctrine used by the Confucianists. And Confucianism != Taoism. They both it it, and they both use it differently. Maybe the way currently the page has it is insufficient, but Tao != Taoism. --User:Menchi 23:26, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Separate page? == To define the Tao one must bridge the gap between object and perception since the Tao is by nature a non-dualistic entity, so maybe having a separate page from Taoism is unnecessary. I'm not comfortable giving up my dualistic prejudices, though, so a separate page about the actual Tao might be useful to distinguish it from the practice of Taoist ideas. :* I have corrected the misspelling "seperate" in the comment above. --User:Dontbeakakke 20:58, May 27, 2005 (UTC) == Flaws == To say that artwork representing tao is flawed doesn't specify whether the flaws are intentional or not. So I like "artwork attempting to convey the Tao is characterized by flaws" to make the distinction. ==Tao or Dao== User 206.116.41.75 added the following paragraph to the article: :''It is unknown why the Tao (Dao) is sometimes spelt with a 'T', Tao. Both ways are accepted, however spelling with a 'D' mat be prevailing, because that is the way it is pronounced. If one compares the muscular pronounciation of Dao or Tao, they will conclude that pronoucing it with a 'D' is slightly less effort, which is one principal of the Dao''. There has been an extensive discussion on the use of "Dao" vs. "Tao," (or Daoism vs. Taoism) which can be found at Talk:Taoism. Essentially, the debate centres on the common English usage ("Tao") and Chinese pronunciation (which sounds more like "Dao"). A good summary of the phonetics involved (taken from the Talk: Taoism page) is the following: :''... (W)hen a Chinese native says the Chinese word, a native of English will hear what he thinks is "Dao", though it isn't. In Mandarin, there're two versions of "t": with/without aspiration, but no "d" at all. In English, on the other hand, "t" at the beginning of a word is pronounced with aspiration, "d" without. The Chinese consonant in question lacks aspiration AND voice, so it has one feature from English "t" (lack of voice) and one from English "d" (lack of aspiration). In this particular context it often renders itself as "d" in the English speaker's consciousness, but it is still not "d", and objectively from a phonetical point of view it's as far from English "d" as it is from English "t".'' I propose that we avoid discussion of the pronunciation of the word in the article on Tao. However, there has been discussion of adding a page on "Spelling of Dao/Daoism." That makes sense to me if someone who knows the linguistics wants to work on it. For now, I've removed the paragraph from the article. I'm also going to do a redirect from Dao to Tao. User:Sunray 20:34, 2005 Feb 4 (UTC) == Tao Austronesian Indigenes Disambiguation == I propose that this comment: Tao (ethnic) is the native name of the Taiwanese Austronesian indigenes formerly known as the Yami. It means "people". be removed, as it is wholly irrelevant, and a disambiguation page be created. --User:Dontbeakakke 20:55, May 27, 2005 (UTC) :It could just be added to the top, minus the "it means people" part, but perhaps there are enough links at the top of the page to warrant a seperate disambig page where they can all go, with one link at the top of this page to the disambig . . . --User:Heah User_talk:Heah 21:19, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
See other meanings of words starting from letter:
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TA | TB | TC | TD | TE | TF | TG | TH | TI | TJ | TK | TL | TŁ | TM | TN | TO | TP | TR | TS | TU | TW | TX | TY | TZ |Words begining with TAO:
TAO
Tao
Tao
Tao-Klarjeti
Tao-Kuang
Tao-Te-Ching
Tao-te-ching
Tao-Te_Ching
Tao-Yuan
Tao-yuan
Tao-Yan
Tao-yan
TAOCP
Taogebra
Taoiseach
Taoiseach
Taoiseach's_residence
Taoiseach_of_Ireland
Taoisigh
Taoisigh_na_hireann
Taoism
Taoism
Taoism
Taoism/Archive_1
Taoism_in_Singapore
Taoism_vs._Daoism
Taoist
Taoists
Taoists
Taoist_canon
Taoist_diet
Taoist_diet
Taoist_Food
Taoist_Food
Taoist_Immortals
Taoist_temples_in_Hong_Kong
Taoist_texts
Taoka_Kazuo
Taolinux
Taomaster
Taomon
Taon
Taon
Taonga
Taongi_Atoll
Taonoui
TaoPaiPai
TaoPaiPai
Taopi,_Minnesota
Taopi,_MN
Taormina
Taormina
Taos
Taos,_Missouri
Taos,_MO
Taos,_New_Mexico
Taos,_NM
Taosk8r
Taoster
Taoster
Taoster/Fenshou
Taoster/Power_Station
Taoster/Power_Station
Taoster/Test
Taos_art_colony
Taos_County
Taos_County,_New_Mexico
Taos_County,_New_Mexico
Taos_County,_New_Mexico
Taos_County,_NM
Taos_Hum
Taos_Hum
Taos_hum
Taos_Peak
Taos_Plateau_volcanic_field
Taos_Pueblo
Taos_Pueblo
Taos_Pueblo,_New_Mexico
Taos_Pueblo,_NM
Taos_Rebellion
Taos_Ski_Valley,_New_Mexico
Taos_Ski_Valley,_NM
Taotao_Mona
Taotao_Mona
TaoTehChingTalk
Taoudenni
Taouk
Taouk
Taouk_family_of_Lebanon
Taouk_family_of_Lebanon
Taoyateduta
Taoyuan
Taoyuan_City
Taoyuan_County
Taoyuan_County
Taoyuan_County
Toyun_County
Taoyuan_County,_Hunan
Taoyuan_County,_Hunan
Taoyuan_County_(Taiwan)
Taoyuan_County_(Taiwan)
Taoyuan_International_Airport
Taoyuan_Xian
Toyun_Xin
Taoyan
Tao_(disambiguation)
Tao_(ethnic)
TAO_(software)
TAO_(software)
Tao_Chi
Tao_Chien
Tao_Ching
Tao_Ho
Tao_Jun
Tao_Len
Tao_Nan_School
Tao_of_Pooh
Tao_of_Pooh
Tao_Qian
To_Qin
Tao_Ren
Tao_Shan
Tao_Shan
Tao_Teh_Ching
Tao_Teh_Ching
Tao_teh_ching
Tao_Te_Ching
Tao_Te_Ching
Tao_te_Ching
Tao_te_ching
Tao_Yang
Tao_Yang
Tao_Yang(I)
Tao_Yang(II)
Tao_Yang_(computer_scientist)
Tao_Yang_(yangs)
Tao_Yin
Tao_Yuanming
To_Yuanmng
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