The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
We don't know what it is, it is only experiential. Some call it Tao, some call it God, some ... Energy. Some work against it, some work with it in a non-striving way.
When you think about it, energy underpins every single process in the universe, yet we do not know what it is or whence it came, only it's effects and transformation.
The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
We don't know what it is, it is only experiential. Some call it Tao, some call it God, some ... Energy. Some work against it, some work with it in a non-striving way.
When you think about it, energy underpins every single process in the universe, yet we do not know what it is or whence it came, only it's effects and transformation.