Word: tao
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...widespread business failures, layoffs, loan defaults and shaky banks. And with many other Asian countries retooling their economies to fuel China's boom, the knock-on effects down the supply chain could be devastating. "Overinvestment will lead to a supply shock that will affect the whole world," predicts Dong Tao, chief Asia economist for Credit Suisse First Boston...
...Tao might seem like a killjoy. After all, China at the moment is the star on the world economic stage. The country's soaring need for a host of goods, especially commodities such as oil, iron ore and aluminum, is a major contributor to global economic recovery. China is poised this year to pass Japan as the world's third largest importer. But the government needs to keep the economy superheated just to provide jobs for the 12 million to 15 million people coming into its labor market every year. That means finding ever larger markets--both internal and overseas...
...Empty yourself of everything, let the mind become still. -The Book of Tao...
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...poetry and philosophy in search of a "spirituality" completely unencumbered by the spiky thorns of "religion." From the Zen masters embraced by the Beats of the '50s, to the Hindu holy men momentarily adopted by the Beatles in the '60s, to that quintessentially enigmatic Chinese mystic Lao Tzu?whose Tao Te Ching has been Americanized by even more translators in the past few years than Rumi's work has?the message most ardently sought by the West from these Eastern visionaries is ever the same: the divine is bigger than every vessel that seeks to hold it. But what...