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TAOISM

Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism and the Tao Te Ching is the most sacred Taoist text. Taoism teaches that all living creatures should live in harmony with the universe and the energy of qi that guides all things in a cyclical natural order, contrasted with linear human goals.

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TAOISM

Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of Taoism and the Tao Te Ching is the most sacred Taoist text. Taoism teaches that all living creatures should live in harmony with the universe and the energy of qi that guides all things in a cyclical natural order, contrasted with linear human goals.

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1. Who is the founder in Taoism?

• Laozi (Lao Tzu) is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Taoist religion and is closely
associated in this context with “original”, or “primordial”, Taoism.[1] Whether he actually existed
is disputed,[2] and the work attributed to him – the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) – is dated between
the 8th and 3rd century BC.

2. What are the Sacred Texts of Taoism?


The most sacred writing of Taoism is the Tao Te Ching, a collection of 81 prose poems by Laozi.
According to legend, the Tao Te Ching was intended to be a manual for the rulers of China. It
contains advice on morals, metaphysics, and political science.

3. What is Wu-wei in Taoism?


• Wu wei means in Chinese non-doing or ‘doing nothing’. It sounds like a pleasant invitation to
relax or worse, fall into laziness or apathy. Yet this concept is key to the noblest kind of action
according to the philosophy of Daoism and is at the heart of what it means to follow Dao or The
Way.

4. What is the Law of Reversion and Yin Yang?


• The principle of Yin and Yang from Chinese philosophy is that all things exist as inseparable
and contradictory opposites. Examples of Yin-Yang opposite forces are female-male, dark-light,
and old-young. The pairs of equal opposites both attract and complement each other.

5. What is Ziran?
• Ziran is the very process of the transformation of dao and things, in which the intimacy of dao,
things and humans is kept. My thesis presents ziran or nature as a way of life that penetrates
dao, things, and humans. It is with the understanding of ziran that the nature of humans and all
things are illuminated.

6. Explain Tao: The Origin of All Beings Whose Essence is


Nothing.
• Much of Taoist philosophy centers on the cyclical continuity of the natural world and its
contrast to the linear, goal-oriented actions of human beings, as well as the perception that the
Tao is “the source of all being, in which life and death are the same."
7. What is the Core Teaching of Taoism?
• The Tao (or Dao) is hard to define but is sometimes understood as the way of the universe.
Taoism teaches that all living creatures ought to live in a state of harmony with the universe, and
the energy found in it. Ch’I, or qi, is the energy present in and guiding everything in the universe.

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