~ Tao~

The Tao does nothing, yet nothing remains undone.

Tao ~ fathomless source, the One, the Deep

Te ~ growing like a plant from the deep ground, or source of life; from within outward.

Ching ~ the slow, patient shaping of that growth through the activity of a creative intelligence that is expressed as the organic patterning of all instinctual life, like the DNA of the universe.

Wu ~ not or non.

Wei ~ doing, making,striving after goals.

Wu Wei ~ relinquishing control, not trying to force or manipulate life but attuning oneself to the underlying rhythm and everchanging modes of its being.

Te ~ To enter the forest without moving the grass; to enter the water without raising a ripple.

~ Awakening to the Tao ~

Store the spirit and energy away in mystical darkness, and the bit of spiritual root will grow from faintness to clarity, from softness to to strength.
When the process is complete, suddenly you will break through space to reveal the pure spiritual body, leaping beyond the worlds. This is like when the caterpillar, having transformed into a moth, breaks out of it's cocoon and flies away, or like when the polliwog becomes a frog and leaps.
There is a body beyond the body, another world.
                  
                                                  Liu I-Ming

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of  Heaven and Earth.
The named is the Mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desirless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source, yet differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.

                                  Tao Te Ching 1

The Tao is the breath that never dies. It is the Mother of all things

                           Tao Te Ching 6

He who knows the male,
     Yet cleaves to what is female,
Becomes like a ravine...
     Receiving all things under Heaven.
And being such a ravine,
     He knows always, a power
That he never calls upon in vain.

                         Tao Te Ching 28