The Taognostic Principle

Tao-gnostic: The Way of Internal Knowing

1. The one true knowledge is that which comes from within. This knowledge is a combination of inner and outer, light and dark, hate and love; the unity of the opposites. This knowledge is only obtained through gnosis, or personal experience.

1. (Human) life is a microcosm of all life and thus internal knowledge is also knowledge of all that is around.

1. Mind is the root of all matter, and awareness/consciousness is fundamental as it is the basis of our experience of reality. Reality is a sporadic subjective experience. Through self-discipline, exploration and questioning we can glimpse beyond our own realities and experience that which links all living beings together.

1. The power of the mind is incomprehensible.

1. The soul is immortal. It is part of a continuous (not necessarily never-ending) cycle of life, death and rebirth. Our bodies are merely shells and yet without them we would not be able to experience and learn our spirits. This is one of the most important examples of the unity of the opposites.

1. Radical questioning of everything in life leads us to explore our minds and thus all that is around us and all that links us together. Radical questioning is especially necessary to understand and overcome the cage in which we live, most commonly known as the Black Iron Prison or Red Dust World. In questioning one must always remember that the questions are just as important as the answers.

1. Power comes in action (yang) and non-action (yin). Civilised man is obsessed with action and hierarchy, believing that he needs more and more power. The Taognostic has his power in himself and lives in non-action (wu-wei), not wishing to preach his path. To internally journey the path of self-exploration is to change the whole world and people around you.

1. Every Taognostics path is different. Each person'’s journey is a path created by the reflection of their spirit on the cosmos. No category of path is "correct". One who lives a life of extreme activity and relentless exploration is no different to the Taognostic who spends his life in deep meditation.

1. The boundaries and oppression we discover (the archons we encounter) in life are but reflections of imbalance within ourselves, collectively and/or individually. The greatest boundary is that which prevents us from realising our unity with all living beings.

1. Through self-discipline and self-scrutiny we can dismantle the Black Iron Prison/Red Dust World.

1. All materia is an illusion. It ceases to exist when you stop imagining it to.

1. I am the only Taognostic.