{"id":464,"date":"2004-10-17T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T17:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/10\/17\/how-would-you-describe-dao\/"},"modified":"2004-10-17T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T17:33:16","slug":"how-would-you-describe-dao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/10\/17\/how-would-you-describe-dao\/","title":{"rendered":"How would you describe Dao?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a426'><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/bokane.org\/\">Brendan O&#8217;Kane<\/a>, a China blogger (an native English speaker blogging on topics on China) I like to read wrote a really neat essay describing Dao.  He wrote it for some class of his but I find the essay a nice read explaining some etymology of the word Dao in Chinese.  I&#8217;ve had a faint understanding of the ideas of Daoism but this essay brought up some of the difficulties with trying to fully wrap your mind around such a difficult concept. Here&#8217;s a snippet: <\/p>\n<p> <em>Daode Jing, the foundational Daoist text, opens by cautioning its readers  that &#8220;the Dao which can be expressed is not the eternal Dao&#8221; (or, in  the Mawangdui version of the text, that &#8220;ways may be expressed, [but] they  are not the eternal Way&#8221;). Then, mindful of its own warning, it goes on  to attempt the impossible. <\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/bokane.org\/writings\/daoessay.html\">Check it out<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan O&#8217;Kane, a China blogger (an native English speaker blogging on topics on China) I like to read wrote a really neat essay describing Dao. He wrote it for some class of his but I find the essay a nice read explaining some etymology of the word Dao in Chinese. I&#8217;ve had a faint understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}