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  • Tao!†   (source)
  • It is what Taoists call Wu Wei, literally to go with the flow.†   (source)
  • CURTAIN Tao House September 20, 1940†   (source)
  • Its names are as old as history itself ....Dharmakaya, Tao, Brahman.†   (source)
  • Father was relating how he had met an old Taoist priest at the market, a remarkable and strange man.†   (source)
  • "Time would be the enemy, sir," Zhu Tao answered.†   (source)
  • One of Tao's roosters had won big the day before and he was thinking of taking it to the Capital.†   (source)
  • What's the difference, Tao Bomu' and Tao Mu'?†   (source)
  • Even his tao, the one who guards the dams, strolls past and says nothing.†   (source)
  • "It was cold, yet manageable," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • "Because they don't know," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • I mean, I liked plastic sofa covers but damn, Tao and Taa had taken it to another level.†   (source)
  • Zhu Tao sat quietly, staring at his boss.†   (source)
  • Tao said, Wait a minute, I want to show you the apartment.†   (source)
  • You better be giving this money back to your tao, he said.†   (source)
  • The last time I'd seen Tao was at the airport, his first day in the United States.†   (source)
  • I got to my feet in time to kiss Taa and Tao good-bye.†   (source)
  • Tao Miguel was about seven feet tall and had his hair combed up and out, into a demi-fro.†   (source)
  • Tao clapped a bricklayer's hand on my shoulder.†   (source)
  • I was carrying the two Coca-Cola empties Tao had hidden in the chicken coop.†   (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)
  • First of all I should say that I don't know whether Phaedrus' claim that Quality is the Tao is true.†   (source)
  • In the parlor, Buddha statues and Taoist immortals grinned at them like psycho clowns.†   (source)
  • Or, more likely, he may not have understood the Tao.†   (source)
  • No, he did nothing for Quality or the Tao.†   (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)
  • Da kai huo tao.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Guo Ming looked expectantly back at him, but Zhu Tao neither stood to leave nor said anything further.†   (source)
  • Venkat looked at Zhu Tao sideways.†   (source)
  • "So it's hopeless?" asked Zhu Tao.†   (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)
  • "Of course," said Zhu Tao.†   (source)
  • "Possibly," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • Something else, Tao?†   (source)
  • Actually, my pops decided, but everybody—meaning Mami, taa Yrma, tao Miguel and their neighbors—thought it a dope idea.†   (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)
  • Zhu Tao stood.†   (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)
  • "Mmm," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • "No, sir," said Zhu 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)
  • Zhu Tao asked.†   (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)
  • "Mmm," Zhu Tao said.†   (source)
  • I had a tao who would sleepwalk.†   (source)
  • Tao, welcome back.†   (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)
  • Well, it's true, Tao said.†   (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)
  • Tao asked.†   (source)
  • Tao asked.†   (source)
  • The pain ...Tao!†   (source)
  • Tao.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • They proceed from and together make manifest Tao: the source and law of being.†   (source)
  • The tea ceremonies of Japan are conceived in the spirit of the Taoist earthly paradise.†   (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 is therefore also "truth,"†   (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)
  • Tao ahab!†   (source)
  • Tao is the Eternal.†   (source)
  • The heavenly is like Tao.†   (source)
  • Tao underlies the cosmos.†   (source)
  • A clanging dock where steel cranes unloaded steamers from Buenos Ayres and Tsing-tao.†   (source)
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