A fork of Rural Dictionary
A four letter word for steep
-"I went to Taos" -"Did you ski Al's" -"Yeah...well kind of. I fell near the top and my ass skied most of it." -"Wrong run dude."
1. (noun) An old spanish colonial outpost near an ancient indigenous settlement of the Tiwa people located in North Central New Mexico, that has become a magnet for artists, hollywood types, old hippies, and Californian new age yuppies in search of tranquility and "culture". Taos is a year round outdoor destination for skiers, boarders, golfers, outdoorsmen or all types, backpackers, mountain bikers, and other assorted outdoor enthusiasts who would like to justify their ungodly expenditures on North Face and REI equipment. 2. (noun) A defunct clear malt beverage that was marketed to young women in the 1990s precursor to Zima
So, my parents own this time share in Taos, and we totally love to hang out with the indigenous Chicano people who live in the pueblo, because I think its totally cool to want to preserve cultures and stuff and like the environment, so I went mountain biking up to this ancient holy site, and there was crazy vertical.... That girl got totally fucked up on a six pack of Taos and she made a nasty mess in the bathroom.
The flow of life, the order of the universe. Tao is the concept of living, breathing, existing. It is not, however, taking advantage of.
Poets gone Wild, Prophets all destroying the Tao.
The pronunciation is wrong. tao is pronounced dao. "The way", "The Path", "The Flow" are some ways to describe what tao means. It originates from a religion/philosophy/spirituality called Taoism. The exact meaning of tao is untranslatable. Tao basically means everything. The tao is like a flow that is everywhere. People moving around, nature doing whatever it does, things like that are examples of tao. It's pretty hard to fully describe it.
I tried my best to describe tao, but it's too damn complicated.
The tao is pronounced dao. Founded by the philosophers of china. Tao is simply put: The Way. Tao is undefinable, to define it is to define something other then the tao, thus, the tao may not even have a definition at all. Tao is also explained as a religion in China called Taoism. Though taoism was not intended to be a religion but a philosophical concept, Chinese people put people of great figure and prestige like Guan Yu, Lao Zi, to name few of many as gods. To have a greater understanding of the Tao, read Lao Zi's l Ching or the book of birthdays. l Ching is orginally found in China, but nobody knows where it is, so The book of birthdays is an English translation of the l Ching. That's what I know about the Tao.
The tao cannot be explain. To define the tao is to define something else other then the tao. To give an example relating to something that is trying to define the tao is not the tao, because that has nothing to do with the way, and so it is not the definition for the Tao. e.g. the tao is simply put: The way. What is the way? nobody knows. Some may say it is the path to believe in the Christian God. Some say it is destiny. Some say it is the method to become rich and successful. Some say the way is when we will come to that place after death. All these things have nothing to do with the Tao because it remains a mystery unsolved.