Some old FYIs are still interesting, e. g., the Internet User's Glossary RFC 1983 ( FYI 18 ), and The Tao of IETF RFC 4677 ( FYI 17 ).

* Taoism, a philosophy which emphasizes the Three Jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility, while Taoist thought generally focuses on nature, the relationship between humanity and the cosmos ; health and longevity ; and wu wei ( action through inaction ).

Taoism ( Daoism ) is a philosophy and later also developed into a religion based on the texts the Tao Te Ching ( Dào Dé Jīng ; ascribed to Laozi ) and the Zhuangzi ( partly ascribed to Zhuangzi ).

The argument between the proponents of Dao and Tao hinges not on which of the two is correct, but which of the two spellings read aloud will better approximate the Chinese.

Wang Bi (, 226 – 249 AD ) was a famous Three Kingdoms period philosopher and commentator on the Tao Te Ching ( tr.

One could interpret the Tao Te Ching as a suite of variations on the " Powers of Nothingness ".

The Tao Te Ching praises self-gained knowledge with emphasis on that knowledge being gained with humility.

* The Tao of Long Life Sample pages on Chinese Macrobiotics to read online.

In a lecture on prime numbers for a general audience, Fields medalist Terence Tao described one approach to proving the prime number theorem in poetic terms: listening to the " music " of the primes.

* Lectures on Perelman's proof by T. Tao.

An investment book titled The Tao Jones Averages ( a pun on the Dow Jones Indexes ) illustrates this pronunciation's widespread familiarity.

Ancient commentaries on the Tao Te Ching are important texts in their own right.

Much of East Asian philosophical writing focuses on the value of adhering to the principles of Tao and the various consequences of failing to do so.

:" Case 10-On the night of December 15th, a number of Japanese soldiers entered the University of Nanking buildings at Tao Yuen and raped 30 women on the spot, some by six men.

Bui Tze adds full-torso movements to the arm and leg techniques of the Siu Nim Tao and Chum Kiu forms, though ( as with the other forms ) some Biu Tze movements are learned in the student WT grades – building on its " redundant " teaching system.

One of these battalions was roughly handled on 23 March 1885 in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao.

Sokō attempts to codify a kind of " universal bushidō " with a special emphasis on " pure " Confucian values, ( rejecting the mystical influences of Tao and Buddhism in Neo-Confucian orthodoxy ), while at the same time calling for recognition of the singular and divine nature of Japan and Japanese culture.

He has written popular books on the implications of science, notably The Tao of Physics, subtitled An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism.

Others, such as Grigory Margulis, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Stanislav Smirnov, Terence Tao and Grigori Perelman, have gone on to become notable mathematicians.

While in China, Shi Tao used a Yahoo email address to notify a pro-democracy website that the Chinese government ordered the Chinese media not to cover the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 on June 4.

* Yang's comment on the Shi Tao case, 17 September 2005

In 1998, Garland attracted media attention from a failed millennial prophecy advocated by the Chen Tao (" True Way ") group, which predicted that on March 31, 1998, God would be seen on a single television channel all across North America.

Liu Bei becomes the governor of Xu Province after Tao Qian passes on the post to him.

Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, demonstrating it to Rob and Bruce on the Tao Te Ching at first.

The leading themes revolve around the nature of Tao and how to attain it.

In religious Taoism, the theory of how Tao produces One, Two, and Three is also explained in an interesting manner.

The how, the Tao of intention and motivation, that is key.

The Tao of Physics was followed by other books of the same genre like The Hidden Connection, The Turning Point and The Web of Life in which Capra extended the argument of how Eastern mysticism and scientific findings of today relate, and how Eastern mysticism might also have answers to some of the biggest scientific challenges of today.

The disturbing similarities between how his old boss Jack Lynch and new boss Tao operate, both being similarly ruthless in how they manipulate others to their own purpose, cause Holden to see himself as a pawn in their own personal war against each other ; and by the end of the series, Holden is simply trying to find away out of the conflict alive.

Describing how the music in the ceremony witnessed communicates and confirms the belief systems of Taoism will reveal music is as intrinsic to the Taoist as the path of Tao itself.

This is well evidenced by the Quietist doctrines carried over in Zen: the idea of the inward turning of thought, the enjoinder to put aside desires and perturbations so that a return to purity, peace, and stillness -- a union with the Infinite, with the Tao -- could be effected.

Harmony with the Universe, or the source thereof ( Tao ), is the intended result of many Taoist rules and practices.

This is because all opposites are manifestations of the single Tao, and are therefore not independent from one another, but rather a variation of the same unifying force throughout all of nature.

The natural English pronunciation of the word spelled Tao is therefore.

Therefore, some argue that Dao is in that sense more " accurate " than Tao.

The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, or Dao De Jing ( 道德經: 道 dào " way "; 德 dé " virtue "; 經 jīng " classic " or " book ") also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text.

The received Tao Te Ching is a short text of around 5, 000 Chinese characters in 81 brief chapters or sections ().

The Tao Te Ching is ascribed to Laozi, whose historical existence has been a matter of scholastic debate.

Some Western scholars have expressed doubts over Laozi's historical existence, claiming that the Tao Te Ching is actually a collection of the work of various authors.

They included two nearly complete copies of the text, referred to as Text A () and Text B (), both of which reverse the traditional ordering and put the Te Ching section before the Tao Ching, which is why the Henricks translation of them is named " Te-Tao Ching ".

These famous first lines of the Tao Te Ching state that the Tao is ineffable, i. e., the Tao is nameless, goes beyond distinctions, and transcends language.

This is the Chinese creation myth from the primordial Tao.

Like the above description of the ineffable Tao as " the mother that rears the ten thousand creatures ", the Tao Te Ching advocates " female " ( or Yin ) values, emphasizing the passive, solid, and quiescent qualities of nature ( which is opposed to the active and energetic ), and " having without possessing ".

: In Tao the only motion is returning ;

The pursuit of Tao is to decrease day after day.

It is not hard to understand the readiness of early scholars to assert that the doctrine of the Trinity was revealed in the Tao Te Ching and that its fourteenth chapter contains the syllables of " Yahveh.