The Way that can be spoken of....

	Words are symbolic references defined by a commonality of usage.  Words enter my vocabulary when a sufficiency of meaning is attributed to the them.  Meaning that is agreed upon either by a significant number of speakers (common usage) or by expert assignment (e.g. Scientific names). 

	When I use words I enter into a three-way symbiotic relationship with them.  I rely on their accepted meaning, their common definition.  I employ the same word at the same time to express a meaning that is personal to the speaker.  I also communicate, via symbolic inference, the linguistic history of the word.  Unless I am very careful in my use of language I can either not express myself clearly or convey much more than I might have intended.

	 When I say "The sky is blue." I am relying on the common definitions of "sky", of being ("is") and the color quality "blue".  Yet in this context this declaration is also a personal statement carrying with it my definitions of sky, being and blue.  Underlying, but no less operative, is the history of the word sky as well as the social/cultural origin of the color designation blue.  When uttered this statement  actually conveys all of these meanings/values simultaneously.

...is not the constant Way.

	When I attempt  to convey complex ideas or concepts I am subject to this symbiotic relationship of  meaning(s).  It becomes impossible for me to accurately express a complex idea because my personal meanings interfere with the established social meanings of the very words that I want to use in the expression.