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The core text of Daoism is the Dao De Jing: a compendium of universal truths concealed behind a famously cryptic maze of contradictions. Among the themes contained within is the notion of return, exemplified in Chapter 40. Dao Zai Fan Ye translates as 'The Path Is In Returning,' and is a meditation on both the cyclical nature of the universe, as well as the acceptance of its inexorability; indeed, it states that everything in the universe is born from the cycle of life and death.
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| fan zhe dao zhi dong, ruo zhe dao zhi yong. tian xia zhi wu sheng yu you, sheng yu wang |
The motion of the Way is to return; The use of the Way is to accept; Things under the sky/heavens, Are born of being, are born of non-being/death. |