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http://albanycomplementaryhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/TaoTeChing-LaoTzu-StephenMitchellTranslation-33p.pdf

This one is good enough. It illustrates my points perfectly.

Tao is God to me. It's unknowable, unnamable, untouchable.

I also use the definition afforded by the dictionary. The very first one.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/god

1God : the supreme or ultimate reality.

I do not include the rest because the rest of the definition is a simile. It states the word "such as" meaning anything that follows is not a literal definition of god but a "such as".

The supreme or ultimate reality is one we are obviously a part of, we interact with that reality. That is the most obvious and plain truth from out perception. That is the prime fact we can hold onto. We exist, and interact with a reality, that reality itself IS god, not separate from us, it is us and not us at the same time.

Tao Te Ching explains god/tao/nature very clearly, replace god with tao and it makes more sense.

"The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. "