Chuang Tzu's Tao

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s have a dynamic interplay and singularity in relation to one another.
All things in the world are ultimately a part of the Tao; thus the Tao is the sum total of everything and yet is still only one thing. More specifically the Tao is a process of transformation that does not admit the distinction of things; all things are distinguished only in accordance to the relativity of their opposites.
“ When the people of the world know beauty as beauty,
there arises the recognition of ugliness”.
“When the simple oneness of Tao is split up into individual
things with names, it is time to stop”.

In the light of Tao, all distinctions and polarities within “all things” are negated; it views all in an associative balance within the framework of “Yin” and “Yang”, all things come from within the perfect center of the “Yin/Yang” balance, and branch outward. The Yin, described as the “passive, dark, mysterious, and feminine” aspect of things, and the Yang as the “active, light, ostensible, and masculine” character of all things. The goal of a Taoist Sage is to strike a balance amongst the Yin/Yang dynam...