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Originally Posted by awareness

Bro Zeek, would you please reference where the Tao speaks of this "principle of return?"

I'm having doubts that Lee ever read the Tao De Ching, but who knows?

The Tao, Buddhism, & Confucianism are all part of Chinese culture, going way back before Jesus. I suppose Jesus as the Logos could have something to do with them. They've worked for the Chinese for millennia. But who could know such a thing?

Lee calls it a Chinese proverb, so he could have picked up the principle of return by just growing up in China ... or from a fortune cookie. Ha!

This should answer you questions:

"Among the laws that govern the changes of things, the most fundamental is that 'when a thing reaches one extreme, it reverts from it.' These are not the actual words of Lao Tsu, but a common Chinese saying which no doubt comes from Lao Tsu. Lao Tsu's actual words are 'Reversing is the movement of the Tao' [Ch. 40.], and 'to go further and further means to revert again' [Ch. 25.] The idea is that if anything develops certain extreme qualities, those qualities invariably revert to become their opposites." http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-...ds=fung+yu-lan, pg. 97