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This is a Taoist insight. Tao is another name for God. far more beautiful than God because God,
the word ”God”, has been exploited too much by the priests They have exploited in the name of God
for so long that even the word has become contaminated – it has become disgusting. Any man of
intelligence is bound to avoid it because it reminds him of all the non.sense that has happened on
the earth down the age.s in the name of God, in the name of religion. More mischief has happened
in the name of God than in any other name.
Tao in that sense is tremendously beautiful. You cannot worship Tao because Tao does not give you
the idea of a person. It is simply a principle, not a person. You cannot worship a principle – you
cannot pray to Tao. It will look ridiculous, it will be utterly absurd, praying to a principle. You don’t
pray to gravitation, you cannot pray to the theory of relativity.
Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. The existence is
not a chaos that much is certain; it is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it, and
the name of that order is Tao. Tao simply means the harmony of the whole. No temples have been
built for Tao; no statues, no prayers, no priests, no rituals – that’s the beauty of it. Hence I don’t call
it a doctrine, nor do I call it a religion, it is a pure insight. You can call it Dharma; that is Buddha’