The Tongue-Tip Taste
of Tao
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Oct. 1978
Pune, India
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    Tao is a far better word than God, because the
    very idea of God creates the desire to
    worship... or to deny.

    So a few become worshippers and a few
    become antagonistic to it. Tao does not create
    the desire to worship, because it is not a
    person; it is simply an impersonal law, like
    gravitation. And because it does not create
    worship it does not create antagonism either.
    So one cannot say 'I believe in tao' or 'I don't
    believe in tao'. Tao is so vast it can contain
    belief and disbelief both. That is the beauty of it.

    The word 'God' is a little small, tiny, narrow. It
    cannot contain the disbeliever. It is arrogant, it
    immediately becomes jealous. Tao accepts all.
    Whether you know it or you don't know it does
    not matter; any way one lives in it. If you start
    living consciously in it, you become divine. If
    you don't live consciously in it, you remain
    worldly.

    Sannyas is an initiation into tao. It is a tongue-
    tip taste of tao. It is a beginning... a beginning
    of something that never ends.

    You are entering a path, the way, tao. But
    remember again: tao is not the way to some
    goal; it is the way things are. Trees are green --
    this is tao. Rivers are flowing towards the ocean
    -- this is tao. Children are becoming older this is
    tao. An old man is dying -- this is tao. This
    whole complexity, this totality is tao...

                                                     – Osho
                     The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao, ch. 1
    The Tongue-Tip Taste of Tao

    Chinese pinyin:
    Dao zai shijian de weidao

    Chinese traditional:　
    道在舌尖的味道

    Chinese simplified:
    道在舌尖的味道