OUR SPONSORS

Please support our sponsors

SPECIAL OFFERS

S  i  d  e  b  a  r

The Dao

This Rock Volume 16, Number 9   November 2005     Frontispiece By Karl Keating   Letters   No Longer Catholic By Tim Drake   What is the Mandatum?   Benchmarks of Catholicity   Where the Catholic Colleges Are   Achieving the Goals of Ex Corde Ecclesiae By Bishop John M. D'Arcy   The Land O' Lakes Statement By TR staff   Right Ways and Wrong Ways to Influence People By Alice von Hildebrand   The Apostolate of Being   Europe Must Return to Christ By Joseph Previtali   What Is an Elephant Like? By Anthony E. Clark   The Dao   Shadows in the Cave   Ratzinger on Relativism   Scripture Speaks   Fortitude By Mark Lowery   Step by Step Is Purgatory Found in the Bible? By Christine Pinheiro and Kenneth J. Howell   Fathers Know Best Apostolic Tradition   Brass Tacks Moral Investing By Jimmy Akin   Damascus Road Finding Mere Catholicism By Peggy Frye   Reviews   Quick Questions    Subscribe    Permissions

Dao is a Chinese term that literally means "path" or "way." Its precise meaning was a point of debate between Asian philosophers who each claimed to understand the term’s implications fully. The most popular use of the term dao was by the Daoists/Taoists (literally "Way-ists"), who asserted that the Dao, or Way, can have no fixed or certain meaning. Thomas Merton wrote his well-known book The Way of Chuang-tzu on one such Daoist.