In the Taoist philosophy of life, Tao is the fountainhead of everything, and the relationship between human beings and Tao is that of the special and the universal, the concrete and the abstract.

• 道教生命哲学以“道”为本源，认为“道生万物”，而人的个体生命与“道”之间是一种特殊与普遍、具体与抽象的关系。