The Way

The Way Tao means “the way.” It is basically indefinable. It has to be experienced. It refers to a power, which envelops, surrounds and flows through all things, living and non-living. The Tao regulates natural processes and nourishes balance in the Universe. It embodies the harmony of opposite, in other words there would be no love without hate, no light without dark, no male without female. According to the Tao Te Ching, it is the …

…do its own thing” only in relation to all others. This is like Kropotkin’s theory in anarchism: If people are left alone to do as they please, to follow their nature and discover what truly pleases them, a social order will emerge of itself. In other words, the order of nature is not a forced order; it is not the result of laws and commandments which beings are compelled to obey by external violence.