Indoctrination

Verse One of the Tao Te Ching (Laozi)
A way that can be walked
is not The Way
A name that can be named
is not The Name

Tao is both Named and Nameless
As Nameless, it is the origin of all things
As Named, it is the mother of all things

A mind free of thought,
Merged within itself
Beholds the essence of Tao
A mind filled with thought,
Identified with its own perceptions,
Beholds the mere forms of this world

Tao and this world seem different
But in truth they are one and the same
The only difference is in what we call them

How deep and mysterious is this unity
How profound, how great!
It is the truth beyond the truth,
The hidden within the hidden
It is the path to all wonder,
The gate to the essence of everything!

translated by Jonathon Star (2001). Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition. New York: Tarcher/Penguin.

Compare this to a statement on Dada
Dada is a state of mind. That is why it transforms itself according to races and events. Dada applies itself to everything, and yet it is nothing, it is the point where the yes and the no and all the opposites meet, not solemnly in the castles of human philosophies, but very simply at street corners, like dogs and grasshoppers.
Like everything in life, Dada is useless.
Dada is without pretension, as life should be.

By Tristan Tzara
From "Dada Manifesto" [1918] and "Lecture on Dada" [1922], translated from the French by Robert Motherwell, *Dada Painters and Poets*, by Robert Motherwell, New York, pp. 78- 9, 81, 246-51; http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jenglish/English104/tzara.html