yes just another way, belief, path. just one that offers less incentive to deceive yourself then any other i know of. other then simply not attempting to name or define the nontangable in any way which is, such is my understanding, precisely the way of tao to begin with.
I think that concepts of "above" and "below", or descending or ascending, are post conquest in origin, and not Taoist. The idea is supposed to foster comfort in knowing that you are better than something else... this is no good. Living in the recent future... with a connection to all things, and having acceptance of self, as being balanced by all the aspects of self, is the concept of Tao that I have come to understand.
The idea of a body separate from the idea of a separate continued existence is an illusion and not founded on any distinct impression.
There is no future- how can the present come to pass There is no past- how can the present have come to pass