Tao

Influence of the Tao Te Ching There are a multitude of influences which are significant to the Chinese culture due to the phillosiphy expressed in the ancient poem, Tao Te Ching. The ideals expressed in the poem contributed to the culture of China in the areas of religion, and literature, and leadership. The philosophical influences of the poem Ta Te Ching have extended beyond China. The first two lines of chapter one of the poem Tao Te Ching suggest the writer, Lao-Tzu named something, “The tao…

tells the story of Tao, Zhang and Dollar over three parts. In part one, a young, vibrant Tao is courted by poor but kind-hearted, coal miner Liangzi, and the brash, wealthy entrepreneur Zhang. Zhang eventually wins out, although Tao’s feeling for Laingzi remain. Zhang marries Tao and they have a son, whom Zhang names Dollar in light of his hope to become rich enough to move abroad. In part two, several years have passed and Tao and Zhang have divorced but share custody of Dollar. Tao is…

The play Electra discusses many principles that are also the focus of the Tao Te Ching. One of these principles is non-action, which the Tao Te Ching heavily supports and Electra seems to support. The two texts have different views on the core values of non-action, and it is important to make a distinction between the two, for the non-action of the Tao Te Ching is wildly different from that of Electra. The Tao Te Ching believes that non-action should be intentional and beneficial to everyone and…

some debate on whether Taoism has a founder, or whether Lao Tzu was a real person (BBC 2014). Daoism is also called Taoism. It is called Daoism because it most resembles the western pronunciation of the word. They follow the sacred text called The Tao-te-ching, which is only 5,000 words. Their sacred text represents the ideology of Taoist quite nicely. It shows that The Taoist, really believe in simplicity. At one point Daoism was a top religion in China right before the Communist Revolution.…

audience that they should ignore the end fruits and just carry on with their endeavors with disregard to the end result. In contrast to the Gita, the Tao Te Ching represents a teaching of inaction to reach one’s ultimate form of a complete state of mind. The Bhagavad-Gita is able to provide insight into the focus of inaction within Mitchell’s, Tao Te Ching, and ultimately expresses that action is proven to be inessential in reaching an end goal through the Bhagavad-Gita’s theory of detachment,…

failure to another. Success is very much personalized and individualized. This is especially true, according to the ancient wisdom of Tao. Tao wisdom from ancient China has a different perspective of success in life. According to Tao, there is no success formula. Just take a look at Chapter One of Tao Te Ching below: "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. As nameless, it is the origin of all things; As named, it is the mother of…

communicate could be very difficult, so everyone have to learn how to communicate with each other. One lesson that was taught in Gran Torino was how to become a man. It was taught by Tao’s cousins to Tao. The mission was to get Tao to steal his neighbor, otherwise known as Walt’s Gran Torino. Tao was…

and eventually, themselves. Without nature, humans become artificial; they have no roots, they cannot grow and they cannot change. With each rebuke of nature, the Innovators remove themselves from the true Tao and catapult into “the void.” At the end of this repudiation or “conquering” of the Tao, humans cease to be human; they will reach “the abolition of man.” The Innovators, who relinquish their souls, pursue a power which is feigned and not a real power at all. Lewis rationalizes that the…

1. This short extract is part of the Isa Upanishad, a short Sanskrit scripture with only eighteen verses (Mascaró, 1974, Juthani, 2001, p. 125). Isa Upanishad is a significant part of The Upanishads - this collection of ancient texts was written in the 7th century BCE and hold a significant position in the philosophical tenets of Hinduism (Cohen, 2008, p. 4). The Upanishads arose out of Vedic literature, and have a strong connection to Vedic religion, one of the oldest religious traditions in…

I majored in Chinese History and Chinese Classical Literature while I was a first year college student in China before I came to the United States, as an international student, writing a serious academic paper about the Chinese classic masterpiece Tao-te Jing and the Great Master Lao-Tzu…