REL-2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fangshi, Tao Te Ching, Yin And Yang
Document Summary
Qi is basic building blocks of all things, energy. Macrocosm-microcosm is the idea that humans are flawless microcosm of the cosmic whole so we must move towards that. Bureaucratic pantheons: lord of heaven with lots of spirit officials, even human body is held to a house. Ritual: brings us back to state of integration with dao. A multi-stranded diverse tradition that made a canon in 5 ce. Hermits, all we have are remnant texts and some are really bizarre, not coherent and. Influenced by buddhism a few hundred years later contradict each other. Canonicity was not common in e asia, so text continued to be included as they evolved. Certain daoist traditions will favor their texts over others. Ancient worthy used as examples and models. Some people are the embodiment of the dao but in confucianism we all try but no one can do it. People who reach dao are called transcendents.
