Taoism

in a sentence

He scanned the titles on the bookshelf: The God Particle The Tao of Physics God: The Evidence One of the bookends was etched with a quote: TRUE SCIENCE DISCOVERS GOD WAITING BEHIND EVERY DOOR.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

My mother placed my first trophy next to a new plastic chess set that the neighborhood Tao society had given to me.†  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

My tao was yukking it up with his buddies in the yard.†  (source) Junot Diaz, Drown, 1997

Or, "Rang huo tao man xia lai."†  (source) Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer, 2003

In the parlor, Buddha statues and Taoist immortals grinned at them like psycho clowns.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune, 2011

"Next year, assuming my lungs hold out, we'll study Taoism, Hinduism, and Judaism together—" The Old Man coughed and then started to laugh, which caused him to cough again.†  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

The bombs also fell on the Vietcong, the Viet Minh, the French, the Laotians, the Cambodians, the Pathet Lao, the Khmer Rouge, the Montagnards, the Hmong, the Maoists, the Taoists, the Buddhists, the monks, the nuns, the rice farmers, the pig farmers, the student protesters and war resisters and flower people, the Chicago 7, the Chicago 8, the Catonsville 9—they were all, pretty much, the enemy.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Tao!†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

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) Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, 1931

Frank remembered Iris, the rainbow goddess, who'd been dabbling in Buddhism and Taoism.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune, 2011

It is what Taoists call Wu Wei, literally to go with the flow.†  (source) Jay Allison, et al., This I Believe II, 2009

It was the 2,400-year-old Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu.†  (source) Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974

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) Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths, 1941