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The Tao and the Buddha

The Attraction Buddhists are often attracted to the Tao and visa versa. Both paths accent happiness through intellectual cultivation, and…

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Becoming Like the Tao

Commentary on the Tao Teh King–by Swami Nirmalananda Giri “The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we mu…

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A Short History of Taoism

A Short History of Daoism (aka "Taoism") Daoism is an organised religious tradition that has been continuously developing and transforming…

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Tao te Ching – The Nature of Polarity by Alan Watts

By Alan Watts AT THE VERY ROOTS of Chinese thinking and feeling there lies the principle of polarity, which is not to be confused with the…

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Becoming Like the Tao

Commentary on the Tao Teh King–by Swami Nirmalananda Giri “The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we mu…

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0 Oct 10, 2009

The Tao and the Buddha

The Attraction Buddhists are often attracted to the Tao and visa versa. Both paths accent happiness through intellectual cultivation, and…

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0 Oct 8, 2009

The Tao and Leadership

Tao & Leadership According to the Tao (Chapter 17) the greatest leaders are unknown to their subjects. When a leader organises matters…

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0 Oct 8, 2009

Lao Tzu

Biography of Lao Tzu - Founder of Taoism It's hard to pin down a biography of Lao Tzu (570-490 BC). There are numerous legends about him.…

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0 Oct 8, 2009

A Short History of Taoism

A Short History of Daoism (aka "Taoism") Daoism is an organised religious tradition that has been continuously developing and transforming…

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0 Oct 8, 2009

The Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching Written by Lao-tzu From a translation by S. Mitchell 1 The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be…

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0 Oct 8, 2009

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Tao te Ching – The Nature of Polarity by Alan Watts

By Alan WattsAT THE VERY ROOTS of Chinese thinking and feeling there lies the principle of polarity, which is not to be confused with the ideas of opposition or conflict. In the metaphors of other cultures, light is at war with darkness, life with death, good with evil, and the positive with the negative, and thus an idealism to cultivate the former and be rid of the latter flourishes throughout much of the…Continue

Tags: meditation, zen, spirituality, consciousness, taoism

Started by Eric Allen Bell Nov 19, 2009.

Becoming Like the Tao

Commentary on the Tao Teh King–by Swami Nirmalananda Giri“The Tao is (like) the emptiness of a vessel; and in our employment of it we must be on our guard against all fulness. How deep and unfathomable it is, as if it were the Honoured Ancestor of all things!”There is something inexpressibly thrilling about the Eastern expositions of the Absolute Reality. How far these words are from the fawning and flattering…Continue

Tags: spirituality, consciousness, lao-tzu, tao-te-ching, tao

Started by Eric Allen Bell Oct 10, 2009.

The Tao and the Buddha

The AttractionBuddhists are often attracted to the Tao and visa versa. Both paths accent happiness through intellectual cultivation, and they both originated around the same time historically. While Buddhists are often encouraged to read alternative ideas and religions, following another path while trying to be a Buddhist is specifically discouraged.Early, close relationshipIn China, Buddhism and Taoism, grew up together. In fact, according to the Platform Sutra, transcribed from the words of…Continue

Tags: Tao, Budddha, Eastern-Thought, Wu-Wei, Taoism

Started by Eric Allen Bell Oct 8, 2009.

The Tao and Leadership

Tao &LeadershipAccording to the Tao (Chapter 17) the greatest leaders are unknown to their subjects. When a leader organises matters in harmony with the Tao, the subjects go about their work and believe that their projects are accomplished entirely through their own efforts. Therefore everyone is content.Next best are leaders that are loved and praised,then those that are feared.The worst are hated and despised.Power to BindAccording to chapter 38, the Tao is the highest philosophy for a…Continue

Tags: Tao, Leadership, Eastern-Thought, Wu-Wei, Taoism

Started by Eric Allen Bell Oct 8, 2009.

Lao Tzu

Biography of Lao Tzu - Founder of TaoismIt's hard to pin down a biography of Lao Tzu (570-490 BC). There are numerous legends about him. Many believe he never existed at all, while historians can point to several possible historical identities for him. Regardless, the legends give the book an endearing, human face. They all place him in Luoyang (marked in this map), the ancient capital of China.Confucius and Lao TzuThe most famous legends are of how he came to write the Tao and of his meeting…Continue

Tags: Dao, Daoism, Lao-Tzu, Confucious, Tao

Started by Eric Allen Bell Oct 8, 2009.

A Short History of Taoism

A Short History of Daoism (aka "Taoism")Daoism is an organised religious tradition that has been continuously developing and transforming itself through China, Korea and Japan for some two thousand years. Now it has spread around the globe from Sydney to Toronto and includes among its followers people from a whole range of ethnicities and cultural backgrounds. Day by day, Daoism is truly becoming a world religion, but as it does so, it seems to resist being pinned down in neat categories. Not…Continue

Tags: Tao, Dao, Daoism, Eastern-Thought, Wu-Wei

Started by Eric Allen Bell Oct 8, 2009.

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