REL110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Laozi, Great Spirit, Wu Wei
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December 1st, 2015: chinese traditions, it is about balance, and finding wholeness, humans are social creatures. They would notice it is the dignity and integrity that create a social culture: taoism, and confucianism both types of chinese religions, be still like a mountain and flow like a river . Lao tzu: 2000- bc, understood that nature functions in a circle and things move in cycles. There is a fundamental deep connection of all things and a great spirit. Bones were used as oracles: the essence of taoism is nature, to know the natural, original self. Do what is natural to do, and be one with nature. When acting in this way everything will unfold without obstacles: tao teching- 500 bc the classic of the way and the power, lao tzu who is 604-531 bc old master- sacred text most translated after the bible. Collection of parables during the warring states period.
