REL-2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bhavacakra, Tao Te Ching, Taoism
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Don"t have access to textual communities, communities are lost. Aristocratic daoism is not a real movement. Kirkland"s article acts as a template to place things in chronological order. The means to an end is the ritual. The end is bringing yourself to alignment with the dao. Chakra are like stations with different gods living and you have to reconcile with them. Seeing challenges as opportunities realm of gods. Meditation, fighting, humans, animals, hungry spirits, hell. If they are propitiated they are an ancestor, if not they are a lingering spirit. Transfer your merit (living) to the dead so that they can be saved. Mutual borrowing from all sides, saw no boundaries between the religions . Ritualized and specific in what it wants from you.
