From robin@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx Sun Feb 21 09:08:43 1999 X-Digest-Num: 69 Message-ID: <44114.69.349.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 19:08:43 +0200 From: Robin Turner > NOTE: I've followed the use of {dadjo} because I don't know how to render > > "dao" into Lojban. However, {dadjo} is Taoist/Taoistic, not Tao. > > How about: munje tadji? (The way of the universe) Hmm, has a certain ring. "Dao" originally has more of the sense of "way" as in "path" or "route" rather than "method" (look at the ideogram) , but has come to include the latter as well, especially in it's Japanese version "do". Using {munji} also enables expression of the contrasts found in the Dao De Jing between "the Dao of Heaven" and "the Dao of man" {remna tadji}. I guess, though, that the problem in finding a Lojban word for Dao/Tao is the ineffability of the idea itself! co'o mi'e robin.