The Tao Of Daniel: PHILOSOPHY

The Tao is commonly regarded as a philosophy, and it IS a philosophy.

An unfortunate thing happens when one’s philosophy overtakes the physical life that it describes, however.

This is why the Tao (as expressed in words on a page) aims to diminish it’s own importance.

It is one’s lived experience that is important, not the words used to describe and make sense of them.

The Tao philosophy is like the small chocolate you receive with the bill at the end of a meal. It is NOT, and SHOULD NOT, be the meal itself.

There are great philosophers that did not live as much as they spoke and wrote about living. This is perhaps a sad and tragic thing.

Need one ‘philosophise’ or talk about ‘the nature’ of being at all actually? Probably not.

And yet it can remain, as all things can, as a game, a play, a fun and hopeless attempt to shed further light on our existence here as human beings.

These words can turn things on their heads, shift and reimagine life a little, and that’s a beautiful and holy thing. Yet every corner of our ordinary lives is no different: a walk in the forest, a game of chess, meals with friends, cleaning one’s apartment.

Tao is holy only because life is holy and Tao is a part of life.

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