Taoism

laozi

Hinduism.

While Confucianism deals with social issues, Taoism deals with the meaning of life. Confucianism stresses ethics while Taoism stresses behavior. Emphasis in Confucianism is on ritual while the focus in Taoism is on nature. Taoism represents as yin while Confucianism in the opposite, representing yang.

The central belief of Daoism is in learning and practicing â??The Wayâ?? (Dao). Daoism is the ultimate truth to the universe.

Lao Tzu's real name is Li, Er. His book is called Dao Te Jing. The main theme of Lao Tzu is "no action" or "無為"。By putting his theory in an example, it means the ultimate control are the ones that people does not even notice and consider it as normal or natural. Yet it is everywhere and most basic such as gravity. Things are done without knowing. Hence no action. One can also consider "no action" as to be one with nature. Another key concept that Lao Tzu introduces in Tao Te Ching is being (有）and nonbeing (无); or the something and the nothing.

Environmentally adaptive behaviors are those that have promoted reproductive success.

Taoists practice ancestor worship. Many own ancestral tablets with the ancestors' names inscribed on them along with incense as a medium to communicate with the deities.

The word Tao means way, path, or road. It is considered to be the way of life, or the proper attitude to life, by its adherents.

One fundamental belief is that the universe, and particulaly the order and harmony found in the universe is evidence of 'Tao', that it is the will of the heavens that things exist.

In turn, if everyone does everything in the proper natural and correct way, peace, harmony and effectiveness would be the result.

In contrast with Confucianism, which advocates action, Taosim's way can be viewed as one of inaction, passivity and calm, and that everything will turn out well if people will just let nature take its course.

For example, refecting on life it self, one Tao Master (Chuang-tzu, about 300 BC) advised..."What should you do? What should you not do? It really does not make any difference."

The underlying idea is that, if things are bad, they will get better. If things are good, that won't won't last long.

A key principle of Taoism is to be at one with nature. If this is acheived, one's whole life is eternally preserved from harm.

Over the centuries the beliefs of Taoism gradually developed and became manifest in the promotion of meditation and other ways to achieve being at one with the Tao. The idea of ying and yang emerged, i.e. that there are opposing forces (male and female) and that life results when these opposing forces unite. Taoists also began using the symbols for ying and yang in their art work and as protection against evil by displaying them on the outside of their homes and other buildings.

In the latter half of the first millennium during the T'ang dynasty (about 600 CE to 900CE), Lao-tzu, the presumed founder of Taoism, became deified by the religion and Taoist writings began to be considered as sacred works. Tao religious orders and religious buildings were established/built, and a pantheon of Chinese gods were adopted into Taoism's beliefs, along with Chinese folklore and traditional customs for keeping evil away and for ensuring good health and fortune.

In summary, the fundamental idea underlying Taoism is that nature is whole and complete and that if man works with nature, he too will be whole and complete, even forever. Today, in Taoism, as a development of this simple concept, there is an extensive panoply of ideas, practices and traditions, with different branches of Taoism having distinctively different beliefs and customs.

The Dao teaches wu-wei, the way of no-action and no-selfishness. To live in a plain and modest way and not to struggle for material gain.

Peace and harmony wuth nature. No selfishness. To live in plain and modest ways amd to not struggle for material gain. "Wu wei" or in other words action through inaction. Yin-Yang. "The way" Dont interfear with nature because it will upset the balence of nature. Hope it helped! ~heartskull

googlit

Female.

The word taon is used in the Filipino language. The word taon translates into the English language as the word year.

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Taoism is an ancient Chinese religion based on the balance of the Universe. Some of the characteristics of Taoism are the Yin and Yang symbol which represents this balance and the quest to achieve enlightenment.

Chuang Tzu compares the p'eng to a cicada to make a point about the different needs for flight. Chuang Tzu was a significant figure in Chinese Taoism.

I remember asking the same question once.

I read the part that said, "The value of a wheel lies in its empty innermost." This did not make any sense to me. So I asked an older and much more learned friend what it meant.

He asked me why I would focus on that line, and I told him it was because I did not understand it.

He asked if I understood the rest, and I told him I thought it was pretty obvious.

He told me that if I was lucky, I would be able to understand the Tao Te Ching in time, perhaps twenty years if I studied hard. I hated that answer. But I also started studying.

About twenty years later, I came to a realization. The reason the Tao Te Ching seemed so obvious to me when I was young was that it was obvious - I had understood it already. Having been told that I didn't understand, I had set about looking for some deep inner meaning that simply was not there. It had taken twenty years to get over this. I also concluded that my older friend was much less learned than I had thought.

There is nothing hidden in the Tao Te Ching. It says exactly what it means. It does not try to be clever. It is as simple as a smooth, uncarved block of wood.

The word "Tao" might throw you. But Lao Tzu says it is just a name he gives to something that really has no name. So it had as little meaning to the average Chinese of his time as it has to the average American today. (By the way, the Greek word "logos," which is translated into "Word" in English versions of the Bible, is translated into "Tao" in Chinese.)

So maybe, you need only to know that you understand already.

If you want to study it, that is okay. Just read the words and let them have whatever meaning they have. If they take a new meaning next time you read them, that is okay, too.

If that answer is not satisfactory, then I suspect you feel a need to try hard to get results. I would recommend that you use the I Ching as an oracle and see how it works. Use it daily. Examine the answers, and when the things you ask about become clear in your life, go back to the answers and see how they apply.

There is a two-fold goal in this. First, it teaches the concept if Yin and Yang, and how they follow cycles in development. Second, if you learn it really well, you discover that a true answer depends on reality, and if you understand reality, then you have no need of oracles.

I hope that helps. I can tell you that other people will have other answers. And their answers might be right.

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Quan Am is the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese Quan Yin - Japanese Kannon, the Bodhisattva of Mercy in Mahayana Buddhism.

Are you thinking of alchemy? It's not exactly magic; there's external alchemy and the quest to find the elixir of immortality, and internal alchemy where one manipulates the flow of qi through meditation, etc, to improve the flow of energy through the body.