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The Tao Is a System of Interrelated Components
Tao is not equivalent with any western or hindo idea of god, because god is always associated with being the lord. The world is a system of interrelated components, none of which can survive without each other. Although bees and flowers look different from each other, they are inseparable. They ar to use a very important daist expression, they arise mutually. And so the basic chinese idea of the universe is really that it's an organism.