The Tao gave birth to the One

In the sixth century B.C., the Greek philosopher Heraclitus maintained that all things flow, as in his famous saying, “One cannot step twice into the same river.” But Heraclitus also emphasized the intangible logos — translated variously as word, speech, or reason: “all things come into being according to this  logos.”  The Greek concept of logos, which can also be translated account, reckoning, or even computation, is broad enough to encompass all the abstractions of mathematics and metaphysics. A few centuries after Heraclitus, St. John the Evangelist wrote “Inthe beginning was the logos, and the logos was with God, and God was the logos. It was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through it, and without it nothing that has come to be came into being”. St. John and Heraclitus used the same words logos, panta and gignomai. What they meat by those words, however, has been a matter of debate for centuries.
The fragments of Heraclitus are as cryptic as those of his contemporaries in India and China: Gautama Buddha, Confucius, and Lao-Tzu. In fact, some of the statements of Lao-Tzu about Tao (usually translated as the Way) bear a striking resemblance to what Heraclitus and St. John said about the logos. Following is the beginning of Chapter 42 of the Book of the Tao:
The Tao gave birth to the One;
The One gave birth to the Two;
The two gave birth to the Three;
And the Three gave birth to the ten thousand things.
Those early insights, as puzzling as they may be, have had a major influence on the history of philosophy in both east and west. A century later, Plato adopted Heraclitus’s distinction between the ever-changing flow of all things and the intangible logos that determines that flow. In analyzing the concepts underlying the logos, Plato proposed the intangible, unchanging mathematical forms or ideas as the true reality, which is reflected in the changeable, illusory flow of physical things.

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