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  • It is what Taoists call Wu Wei, literally to go with the flow.†   (source)
  • Tao!†   (source)
  • CURTAIN Tao House September 20, 1940†   (source)
  • Father was relating how he had met an old Taoist priest at the market, a remarkable and strange man.†   (source)
  • "It was cold, yet manageable," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • First of all I should say that I don't know whether Phaedrus' claim that Quality is the Tao is true.†   (source)
  • What's the difference, Tao Bomu' and Tao Mu'?†   (source)
  • No, he did nothing for Quality or the Tao.†   (source)
  • "Time would be the enemy, sir," Zhu Tao answered.†   (source)
  • Zhu Tao sat quietly, staring at his boss.†   (source)
  • Or, more likely, he may not have understood the Tao.†   (source)
  • "Because they don't know," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • It was the 2,400-year-old Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu.†   (source)
  • Frank remembered Iris, the rainbow goddess, who'd been dabbling in Buddhism and Taoism.†   (source)
  • Tao clapped a bricklayer's hand on my shoulder.†   (source)
  • I got to my feet in time to kiss Taa and Tao good-bye.†   (source)
  • In the parlor, Buddha statues and Taoist immortals grinned at them like psycho clowns.†   (source)
  • Even his tao, the one who guards the dams, strolls past and says nothing.†   (source)
  • I was carrying the two Coca-Cola empties Tao had hidden in the chicken coop.†   (source)
  • You better be giving this money back to your tao, he said.†   (source)
  • Tao said, Wait a minute, I want to show you the apartment.†   (source)
  • The last time I'd seen Tao was at the airport, his first day in the United States.†   (source)
  • One of Tao's roosters had won big the day before and he was thinking of taking it to the Capital.†   (source)
  • Tao Miguel was about seven feet tall and had his hair combed up and out, into a demi-fro.†   (source)
  • I mean, I liked plastic sofa covers but damn, Tao and Taa had taken it to another level.†   (source)
  • Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.†   (source)
  • "Or that maybe it was because when you're Chinese you're supposed to accept everything, flow with the Tao and not make waves.†   (source)
  • The statues there, Sister Yu said, were for a Taoist diorama that showed what would happen if a person went to the underworld.†   (source)
  • And there were many, many statues, both Buddhist and Taoist, because the monastery had been occupied by both kinds of monks in different centuries, depending on which warlord was in charge of the land.†   (source)
  • In this way, Buddha became fat Jesus, the Goddess of Mercy was Mary of the Manger, the Three Pure Ones, boss gods of the Taoists, turned into the Three Wise Men, and the Eighteen Lohan of Buddha were converted to the Twelve Apostles with six sons.†   (source)
  • Guo Ming looked expectantly back at him, but Zhu Tao neither stood to leave nor said anything further.†   (source)
  • The Vedanta of the Hindus, the Way of the Taoists, even the Buddha had been described as an absolute monism similar to Hegel's philosophy.†   (source)
  • I think, furthermore, that all his metaphysical mountain climbing did absolutely nothing to further either our understanding of what Quality is or of what the Tao is.†   (source)
  • "So it's hopeless?" asked Zhu Tao.†   (source)
  • What he had been talking about all the time as Quality was here the Tao, the great central generating force of all religions, Oriental and Occidental, past and present, all knowledge, everything.†   (source)
  • "Any agreement would hinge on the Americans reimbursing us for the booster," Zhu Tao said, "and the State Council would likely want political favors from the US government."†   (source)
  • Venkat looked at Zhu Tao sideways.†   (source)
  • "Of course," said Zhu Tao.†   (source)
  • Tao, welcome back.†   (source)
  • Something else, Tao?†   (source)
  • Zhu Tao asked.†   (source)
  • "Possibly," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • "Mmm," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • "No, sir," said Zhu Tao.†   (source)
  • "Mmm," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • Zhu Tao stood.†   (source)
  • Da kai huo tao.†   (source)
  • The pain … Tao!†   (source)
  • Tao.†   (source)
  • Tao said it wasn't bad but the father was very sensitive about anyone taunting his oldest son, which explained the mask.†   (source)
  • He runs past his tao's land and with a glance he knows how many beans of cafe his tao has growing red, black and green on his conucos.†   (source)
  • The adults who didn't know us made like they hadn't heard a thing and Tao just smiled sheepishly and told everybody to go ahead and eat.†   (source)
  • Actually, my pops decided, but everybody--meaning Mami, taa Yrma, tao Miguel and their neighbors--thought it a dope idea.†   (source)
  • She and tao Miguel got themselves an apartment in the Bronx, off the Grand Concourse and everybody decided that we should have a party.†   (source)
  • I had a tao who would sleepwalk.†   (source)
  • We were on our way to the colmado for an errand, a beer for my tao, when Rafa stood still and tilted his head, as if listening to a message I couldn't hear, something beamed in from afar.†   (source)
  • He was about a foot bigger than either of us and looked like he'd been fattened on that supergrain the farmers around Ocoa were giving their stock, a new product which kept my tao up at night, muttering jealously, Proxyl Feed 9, Proxyl Feed 9.†   (source)
  • Tao Miguel had chores for us (mostly we chopped wood for the smokehouse and brought water up from the river) but we finished these as easy as we threw off our shirts, the rest of the day punching us in the face.†   (source)
  • Well, it's true, Tao said.†   (source)
  • Tao asked.†   (source)
  • Tao asked.†   (source)
  • There were also, it appeared, a Taoist and a Confucian temple further along the valley.†   (source)
  • He was a tao listo, a carnival type, a whorehouse visitor.†   (source)
  • Tao is therefore also "truth," "right conduct."†   (source)
  • Tao is the way or course of nature, destiny, cosmic order; the Absolute made manifest.†   (source)
  • Yang and Yin together as Tao are depicted thus: Iv).†   (source)
  • The tea ceremonies of Japan are conceived in the spirit of the Taoist earthly paradise.†   (source)
  • They proceed from and together make manifest Tao: the source and law of being.†   (source)
  • His family, as you may be aware, wished to condemn them to the fire; but his executor—a Taoist or Buddhist monk—insisted on their publication.†   (source)
  • Then on the day appointed by the geomancer in the full of the spring of the year Wang Lung called priests from the Taoist temple and they came dressed in their yellow robes and their long hair knotted on their crowns, and he called priests from the Buddhist temples and they came in their long grey robes, their heads shaven and set with the nine sacred scars, and these priests beat drums and chanted the whole night through for the two who were dead.†   (source)
  • The Taoist landscape paintings of China and Japan depict supremely the heavenliness of this terrestrial state.†   (source)
  • Tao ahab! ts every created thing.†   (source)
  • Tao underlies the cosmos.†   (source)
  • Tao is the Eternal.†   (source)
  • The heavenly is like Tao.†   (source)
  • In this section the following have been equated: The Void — The World; Eternity — Time; Nirvana — Samsara; Truth — Illusoriness; Enlightenment — Compassion; The God — The Goddess; The Enemy — The Friend; Death — Birth; The Thunderbolt — The Bell; The Jewel — The Lotus; Subject — Object; Yab — Yum; Yang — Yin; Tao, Supreme Buddha, Bodhisattva, Divan Mukta, The Word Made Flesh.†   (source)
  • A clanging dock where steel cranes unloaded steamers from Buenos Ayres and Tsing-tao.†   (source)
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