Tao is generally translated as the Way. So what is a way?

A way is a path, a method of conduct, a condition of being. It's "the structure on which a ship is built and from which it slides when launched." It's all of those things, simultaneously. The trick is to hold all the meanings together at the same time and practice the idea that binds them.

How can such ancient wisdom make sense in a world where there's direct manipulation of biological creation? Unlike other seminal books, the Tao-Te-Ching does not rely on an outside agent to provide and enforce moral authority. Instead, it insists that truly understanding the workings of the world we live in will provide sufficient guidance. So while death is inevitable, we can not know what happens after death. All we know is that living stops. To consider the afterlife and to use the existence of a particular afterlife to justify how we live is to speculate about the unknowable. Such speculation is nothing more than fantoms which cloud true understanding.

My path right now has a lot to do with technology. Along with jotting thoughts about my readings, this is where I'm stashing my rants and dreams about technology and where it should go.