Their idea of nature is that which happens of itself so, and that is a process which is not fundamentally under our control. By definition it is that which is happening all on its own, just as our breathing is happening all on its own, and just as our heart is beating all on its own — and the fundamental wisdom behind Taoist philosophy is that this

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David Hinton, gives some good descriptions of how "Presence" & "Absence" are essentially synonymous with Tao, with the source-fabric of all things, "Presence" just emphasizes the way that consciousness differentiates the source-fabric into the ten thousand things, "Absence" just emphasizes t... See more

The Tao is the source of life of all things. It is nameless, invisible, and ungraspable by normal modes of perception. It is boundless and cannot be exhausted, although all things depend on it for existence. Hidden beneath transition and change, the Tao is the permanent underlying reality. These ideas will become the center of all future Taoist thi

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