Taoism
Tao: " Tao is the way of ultimate reality. This Tao cannot be perceived or even clearly conceived, for it is too vast for human rationality to fathom." (Pg.180, Smith) 
Yin: passive, feminine, principal in Chinese nature, combine with yang to be whole.
" We live, China testifies, amid a dynamic dance of complementary forces—yin and yang—manifest in the mysterious cooperation of light and dark, heat and cold, male and female, willfulness and receptivity: life’s countless contrary pairs." (Pg.137, Novak).
Yang: positive, masculine principal in Chinese philosophy. Associated with heaven, combine with yin to be whole.
Wu wei: "The Taoist phrase here rendered “creative letting-be” is wei wu wei, literally, the action of non-action. It is Taoism’s key principle of practical living. It encourages going with the flow" (Pg.144, Novak).
Five Elements: A Chinese theory that everything in the universe comes from earth, water, fire, wood, and metal. it is said that everything is made from these elements alone or a combination of any of them to create everything we see around us.
ch'i; present energy in guiding everything in the universe.
Alchemy: alchemy Taoism is about transformation. The transformation of human beings bringing them closer to the Toa and giving them a longer life.
Lao Tzu: " Taoism’s beginnings are linked to the legendary figure of Lao Tzu, senior to Confucius by about fifty years and credited with writing Taoism’s Bible, the Tao Te Ching or The Book of the Way and Its Power." (Pg. 138, Novak).