I can pontificate that one of the most difficult aspects of trying to translate the nature of the Dao, would be first to translate classical Chinese into English. Words are deeper than their dictionaries definition. Words convey ideas, concepts, and emotions; they express what your character is. They are a definite force that engages in intangible physics. Language is one of the most special aspects of the Human Experience in that our communicative style is superbly unique to the rest of the natural kingdom but also in that language is a physical tangible directly experiential force in our material reality that has its immediate roots in the mystery of the transcendental conscious other.
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