Gnomic aspect

Although the Tao is nameless, human beings still need to call it something in order to talk about it. Out of all the possible names, the ancient sages were forced to call it “Tao,” which was simply Chinese for “the path” or “the way.”

For us, almost all knowledge is what a Taoist would call conventional knowledge, because we do not feel that we really know anything unless we can represent it to ourselves in words, or in some other system of conventional signs such as the notations of mathematics or music.

meanings have an existence independent of people and contexts.

There is Knowing and this can only be in and as this Presence we commonly call ‘Now’.