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Return

Fan: the Daodejing’s teaching that returning is the movement of the Dao.

Also: fan, reversal

Daoism and Chinese thought

Returning is the movement of the Dao, says the Daodejing: all things flourish and each returns to its root, and returning to the root is called stillness. The sage reverses the outward movement of desire and returns to simplicity, to the infant, to the uncarved block.