Originally Posted by
TomSawyer 
Good advice all. I've found myself praying lately, even if I'm not really sure what I'm praying to.
Some folks pray to IDK (I Don't Know) and it works out just fine. Sometimes I pray to the Tao of the Universe.
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The Tao that can be talked about is not the true “Tao”. Tao can not be represented as a particular entity, thing or image. Tao is not directly translatable to “God”. Any word we can define is not the Tao. The concept of a personified deity is foreign to a Taoist, as is the concept of the creation of the universe. Time is cyclical, not linear as in Western thinking. Tao is unknowable in “essence” but observable in “manifestations”. The Tao belongs neither to knowing or not knowing. It is paradoxically “nothing”, yet it is “in everything”.
