According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to relatively late ( 19th century ) documents preserved within the Yang and Wu family's archives, the name of Zhang Sanfeng's master was Xu Xuanping ( 許宣平 ), said to be a Tang dynasty hermit poet and Taoist Tao Yin expert.

According to I Kuan Tao, he represents many teachings, including contentment, generosity, wisdom and open kindheartedness.

According to one story, Lü's teacher Zhongli Quan became an immortal and was about to fly to heaven, while saying to Lü that if he kept practicing the Tao he would also be able to fly to heaven himself very soon.

According to the book " The Eight Immortals Achieving the Tao (《 八仙得道摶 》)," in his previous incarnation, Lü Dongbin was a Taoist master and the teacher of Zhongli Quan.

According to the Cao Đài myth of creation, before God existed, there was the Tao, the nameless, formless, unchanging, eternal source referenced in the Tao Te Ching.

According to Daozang, The Universally Honoured One of Tao and Virtues had manifested many various incarnations to teach living beings, and Laozi is one of his incarnations.

According to the complaint, Wang and Shi Tao used Yahoo!

According to Smithsonian Online Magazine, Tao could carry out basic arithmetic by the age of two.

According to I-Kuan Tao believers, Madame Sun was not really Zhang's wife.

According to the ancient historian Xenophon, it was occupied by the Makron, Kolkh and Tao.

According to original texts such as the Cantong qi, the body is understood as the focus of cosmological processes summarized in the five agents, or wu xing, the observation and cultivation of which leads the practitioner into greater alignment with the operation of the Tao, the great cosmological principle of everything.

According to J. C. Cooper's " Chinese Alchemy: The Taoist Quest for Immortality ," Taoism had two distinct parts, the classical Tao Chia, which was mystical and stemmed primarily from Laozi and Zhuangzi, and the more popular Tao Chiao, which was the popular, magical and alchemical side of Taoism.

According to authors Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight, Hiram Abiff would have been Egyptian king Seqenenre Tao II, who met an extremely similar death.

* Drinking songs: According to the grammarian Athenaeus, Alcaeus made every occasion an excuse for drinking and he has provided posterity several quotes in proof of it.

According to Eusebius, the tomb exhibited a clear and visible proof that it was the tomb of Jesus.

According to plaintiffs, these statements alone satisfied their burden of proof on the due process claims.

According to Rossy, this is proof of the more recent creation of this type of songs, influenced by Castilian jota.

According to the BHK interpretation, this proof itself is essentially the function F that is desired.

According to George N. Patterson, when the Indian government finally produced a report detailing the alleged proof of India's claims to the disputed area, " the quality of the Indian evidence was very poor, including some very dubious sources indeed ".

Hall and Popkin defend Mill against this accusation pointing out that he begins Chapter Four by asserting that “ that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term ” and that this is “ common to all first principles .” According to Hall and Popkin, therefore, Mill does not attempt to “ establish that what people do desire is desirable but merely attempts to make the principles acceptable .” The type of “ proof ” Mill is offering " consists only of some considerations which, Mill thought, might induce an honest and reasonable man to accept utilitarianism ".

According to Dijksterhuis, " In De natura lucis et proprietate ( 1662 ) Isaac Vossius said that Descartes had seen Snell's paper and concocted his own proof.

According from the inscriptions on ancient milestones, the principal road through the island ran directly from Caralis ( Cagliari ) to Turris, a sufficient proof that the latter was a place much frequented.

According to Plato, the rational detection of error amounts to finding the proof of the antithesis.

According to Quebec law, Montreuil could not change her record of sex because this requires proof of a completed sex reassignment surgery, which she has not had.

According to Klein, this fits perfectly in with the Swedish folklore that Charles ’ magical protection, ( in contemporary times, he was rumoured to be of such strong breed and character that he was bullet proof ) had been broken by a killer who shot him with the king ’ s own coat button.

According to legend, Lidingö was a place where the Vikings would gather before setting sails to eastern areas, however no proof have been found to confirm that theory.

According to Inferior, this is proof that it is alright to loiter in the agora ( line 1056 ) though in fact it merely demonstrates a change in the word's significance.

According to Lardner the Logos of John 1, was to be understood as a divine attribute, which metaphorically “ became flesh ” in the man Jesus, and other traditional pre-existence proof texts are interpreted in ways consistent with Christ's not existing before his conception.

According to Colombia Decrees No. 2668 / 88 and 1556 / 89, passed in 1988, foreigners are allowed to marry nationals in the country provided they supply the proper paperwork, including a birth certificate and proof that both parties are not already married.

According to MACV's chief of intelligence, General Joseph McChristian, the new figures " would create a political bombshell ," since they were positive proof that the communists " had the capability and the will to continue a protracted war of attrition.

According to the Home Office, the burden of proof that an accused person is in possession of a key rests on the prosecution ; moreover, the act contains a defence for operators who have lost or forgotten a key, and they are not liable if they are judged to have done what they can to recover a key.

According to Manetho, this latter revolt occurred during the reign of Neferhotep's successor, Sobekhotep IV, though there is no archaeological proof.

According to Finnish sources, proof for Oesch ’ s personal responsibility for these deaths was rather dubious.

According to an experimental proof from 2006 ( controversial results ), quantum dots of lead selenide can produce as many as seven excitons from one high energy photon of sunlight ( 7. 8 times the bandgap energy ).

According to a local tradition, Marco Polo would have been born at Korčula in 1254 to an established family of merchants, although there is no proof of this claim.

According to the footnote of the undefinability theorem ( Satz I ) of the 1936 paper, the theorem and the sketch of the proof were added to the paper only after the paper was sent to print.

According to the Ness-Ity-Hood Principle, a name for any universal may be formed that is distinctive, " of left-handers " may be formed by taking the predicate " left-handed " and adding " ness ", which yields the name " left-handedness ".

According to an Irish dinsenchas (" place-lore ") poem in the 12th century Book of Leinster, Crom Cruach's cult image, consisting of a gold figure surrounded by twelve stone figures, stood on Magh Slécht (" the plain of prostration ") in County Cavan, and was propitiated with first-born sacrifice in exchange for good yields of milk and grain.

According to the Church-Turing thesis, any effectively calculable function is calculable by a Turing machine, and thus a set S is recursively enumerable if and only if there is some algorithm which yields an enumeration of S. This cannot be taken as a formal definition, however, because the Church-Turing thesis is an informal conjecture rather than a formal axiom.

** According to one of the engineers on the design team of the HP48G series ( Dave Arnett ), the yields for 4MHz CPUs were essentially separated into two parts: the ones closest to spec, generally near 3. 93-3. 94MHz, were reserved for the expandable models ( GX ), and those just slightly under spec were used for the non-expandable units ( G ).

According to Lunn and Sansone, Chemical degradation using bleach yields compounds which are mutagenic by the Ames test.

According to Jack A. Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank, one reason for this unprecedented move of having a range, rather than a specific rate, was because a rate of 0 % could have had problematic implications for money market funds, whose fees could then outpace yields.

According to Oz Clarke, the quality of Verdicchio wines has improved since the later half of the 20th century as producers limit yields even beyond DOC regulation to produce fuller flavored grapes that can better balance its high acidity.

According to Vogel's Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry, yields around 100 % are called quantitative, yields above 90 % are called excellent, yields above 80 % are very good, yields above 70 % are good, yields above 50 % are fair, and yields below 40 % are called poor.

According to Ord, Pearson devised the underlying form of Equation ( 1 ) on the basis of, firstly, the formula for the derivative of the logarithm of the density function of the normal distribution ( which gives a linear function ) and, secondly, from a recurrence relation for values in the probability mass function of the hypergeometric distribution ( which yields the linear-divided-by-quadratic structure ).