I think what the landlord said is Lao Tzu's most admired "Tao"! I agree with you, too! Tao is the highest category of China's philosophy and the earliest philosophical generalization of the universe. Lao Dan believes that "Tao" is the eternal existence of essence, which is not only the origin of the universe, but also the internal basis and fundamental support for the emergence, development and change of all things in the universe. It is an absolutely non-prescriptive, transcendental and unspeakable thing itself.

First, introduce the philosophical meaning of "Tao"

"Chu" means that everything in the world must have a source. Where everything comes from is the beginning of the universe, and the beginning of the universe is the root. China's early Taoism believed that the material world had its origin, which was neither a celestial emperor nor a ghost, but a "Tao". Lao Dan's view that Tao is the beginning of the universe declared the end of China's myth origin theory and opened a new era of China's philosophy of heaven.

"Generation" means: "The Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything." (Li Er abstracted "water", "heaven and earth" and "god" into "one", "two" and "three" respectively), and interpreted the meaning of "generation" of "Tao" from the height of ontology.

The meaning of "dependence": Everything in the empirical world has certain conditions, that is, waiting. In a more popular way, it is said that "the dragon gives birth to the dragon, the phoenix gives birth to the phoenix, and the son of the mouse makes a hole in the ground." The emergence, development and change of everything depend on it.

"Unity" means "one" and unity. "Only saints can belong to all things in the same yuan." This is similar to what Kong Old Master Q said in The Analects of Confucius: gentlemen are harmonious but different, while villains are the same but not harmonious. (I seem to say so ~) Everything in the world is complicated and changeable. If we look at it, it belongs to the patriarch who contains everything and everything.

As the origin of the universe and the creator of all things, Tao is also a "thing"; It and everything it produces are reality. Although "Tao" is intangible, it has something in it (but there is something in it), essence in it (but there is subtle essence in it) and faith in it (this subtle essence is the most concrete and true).

Secondly, let's look at the ontological characteristics of Tao.

"Nothing", nothing. "Everything in the world is born", everything is born; Only "Tao" is born, but there is no life. "Tao" is self-contained, and "being the mother of the world" is the basis and basis for the existence of all things.

"Immortality" means eternity. Everything in the world has a beginning and an end, and only "Tao" and "independence and constancy" are eternal. "Tao" is the eternal root of the birth, death, beginning and end of all things in the world.

Infinity, that is, transcending the theory of relativity, is everything. Everything in the world often has this nature, but there is no other, and it is not there to live here. It is limited and relative. Only the impartial Tao is infinite, absolute and all-encompassing, that is, it is used to explain that everything makes sense.

I'm a stranger to these things, and I haven't even learned the fur, but I feel more and more that Laozi's theory is very reasonable! So I want to share it with the landlord, hoping to help the landlord understand this problem. "Tao" can not only be known to people, but also a magic weapon for people to communicate with each other, and both good and evil should conform to it; On the contrary, going against the sky will be punished. Everything depends on it, and it is indispensable for a moment.