It has been severally translated as the Way, the Absolute, the Law, Nature, Supreme Reason, the Mode.
These renderings are not incorrect, for the use of the term by the Taoists differs according to the subject-matter of the inquiry.
Laotse himself spoke of it thus:
"There is a thing which is all-containing, which was born before the existence of Heaven and Earth.
How silent! How solitary! It stands alone and changes not.
It revolves without danger to itself and is the mother of the universe.
I do not know its name and so call it the Path.
With reluctance I call it the Infinite.
Infinite is the Fleeting,
the Fleeting is the Vanishing,
the Vanishing is the Reverting."」( the Book of Tea-Taoism and Zennism, p.37, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont- Tokyo, Japan)
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