Should this page be renamed "Daoism"? We all know that's how it's supposed to be said, so should it be changed to reflect that?
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Maybe, but "Taoism" is the traditional and more widespread spelling.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Many works of fiction, particularly chinese and japanese stuff but in the west as well, have Toaist sub-texts. This stuff is probably not worth putting in the main examples at the bottom of the page because these themes are highly up for interpretation. It would be interesting to hear examples people can think of in this space though.
Here's my first example
In The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Malta Kano keeps "mentioning that the flow has been obstructed." This turns out to have numerous symbolic and literal manifestations. Also the symbolic importance of water is worth noting.
The Tao Te Ching link isn't working anymore, it 404ed for me. Anyone knows of another good translation so we can put it in there instead?