{"id":1168,"date":"2022-03-18T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:24:00","slug":"what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"What you may not know about Taoism from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;\">This article will avail you with important explanations on the nature of Taoism. It elucidates the concept of The Tao and the meaning of immortality in Taoism. We shall helps you to make the distinction between knowledge and relativity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRAj3d8xYmcHJKYbysZha52By3wfX4kV4SmAw&amp;usqp=CAU\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"What you may not know about Taoism from China\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"183\" data-original-width=\"275\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRAj3d8xYmcHJKYbysZha52By3wfX4kV4SmAw&amp;usqp=CAU\" title=\"What you may not know about Taoism from China\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d91cd55483c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69d91cd55483c\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#The_Nature_of_Taoism\" >The Nature of Taoism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#What_is_the_Tao\" >What is the Tao?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#_The_Tao_is_not_a_thing\" >&nbsp;The Tao is not a thing<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#The_Tao_is_not_God\" >The Tao is not God<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#_Gods_and_spirits\" >&nbsp;Gods and spirits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#_Knowledge_and_relativity\" >&nbsp;Knowledge and relativity<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#_Religious_Taoism\" >&nbsp;Religious Taoism<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/what-you-may-not-know-about-taoism-from-china\/#_Conclusion\" >&nbsp;Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Nature_of_Taoism\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;\">The Nature of Taoism<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-outline-level: 1; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/history\/history.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">ancient tradition<\/span><\/a> of philosophy and religious belief that is deeply rooted in Chinese customs and worldview.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/tao.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">the Tao<\/span><\/a>. This is usually translated as <i>the Way<\/i>. But it&#8217;s hard to say exactly what this means. The Tao is the ultimate creative principle of the universe. All things are unified and connected in the Tao.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism originated in China. It is a religion of unity and opposites; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/concepts.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Yin and Yang<\/span><\/a>. The principle of Yin Yang sees the world as filled with complementary forces &#8211; action and non-action, light and dark, hot and cold, and so on. The Tao is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/gods.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">God<\/span><\/a>and is not worshipped. Taoism includes many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/gods.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">deities<\/span><\/a>that are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/rites\/rites.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">worshipped<\/span><\/a>in Taoist temples, they are part of the universe and depend, like everything, on the Tao.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism promotes: <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"circle\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">achieving       harmony or union with nature<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/concepts.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">the pursuit       of spiritual immortality<\/span><\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">being       &#8216;virtuous&#8217; (but not ostentatiously so)<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">self-development<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoist practices include: <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"circle\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">meditation<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">fortune       telling<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/practices\/recitation.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">reading       and chanting of scriptures<\/span><\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Before the Communist revolution, Taoism was one of the strongest religions in China. After a campaign to destroy non-Communist religion, however, the numbers significantly reduced and it has become difficult to assess the statistical popularity of Taoism in the world.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/previews.123rf.com\/images\/axz65\/axz651207\/axz65120700061\/14466539-taoist-temple-in-suzhou-china.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"What you may not know about Taoism from China\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"532\" data-original-width=\"800\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/previews.123rf.com\/images\/axz65\/axz651207\/axz65120700061\/14466539-taoist-temple-in-suzhou-china.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"What you may not know about Taoism from China\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_the_Tao\"><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;\">What is the Tao?<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The Tao cannot be described in words. Human language can only give hints that may help the mind to form an idea. The most important thing about the Tao is how it works in the world and how human beings relate to it. Philosophical speculation about what the Tao actually is less important than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/taoethics\/ethics_1.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">living in sensitive response to the Tao<\/span><\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_The_Tao_is_not_a_thing\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The Tao is not a thing<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The Tao is not a thing or a substance in the conventional sense. It cannot be perceived but it can be observed in the things of the world. Although it gives rise to all being, it does not itself have a being.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">It might be more helpful to regard Tao as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/taoethics\/ethics_1.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">system of guidance<\/span><\/a>. And if one does this one can translate &#8216;achieving union with the Tao into developing oneself so as to live in complete conformity with the teachings of the Tao which is easier to understand and closer to the truth.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Tao_is_not_God\"><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The Tao is not God<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The Tao is not God and is not worshipped. Taoism does include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/gods.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">many deities<\/span><\/a>, but although these are worshipped in Taoist temples, they are part of the universe and depend, like everything, on the Tao.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The Tao includes several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/concepts.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">concepts<\/span><\/a>in one word:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0cm;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">the source of creation<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">the ultimate<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">the inexpressible and      indefinable<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">the unnameable<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">the natural universe as a whole<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">the way of nature as a whole<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_Gods_and_spirits\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;\">Gods and spirits<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism does not have a God in the way that the Abrahamic religions do. There is no omnipotent being beyond the cosmos, who created and controls the universe. In Taoism the universe springs from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/tao.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Tao<\/span><\/a>and the Tao impersonally guides things on their way.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><b><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Immortality<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Immortality doesn&#8217;t mean living for ever in the present physical body. The idea is that the Taoist draws closer and closer to nature throughout his or her life and death is just the final step in achieving complete unity with the universe.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Spiritual immortality, the goal of Daoism, raises the practices to a yet higher level. To attain it, people have to transform all their qi into primordial qi and proceed to refine it to subtler levels. This finer qi will eventually turn into pure spirit, with which practitioners increasingly identify to become transcendent spirit-people.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The path that leads there involves intensive meditation and trance training as well as more radical forms of diet and other longevity practices. Immortality implies the overcoming of the natural tendencies of the body and its transformation into a different kind of qi-constellation. The result is a bypassing of death, so that the end of the body has no impact on the continuation of the spirit-person. In addition, practitioners attain supersensory powers and eventually gain residence in wondrous other worldly paradises.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_Knowledge_and_relativity\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;\">Knowledge and relativity<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Human knowledge is always partial and affected by the standpoint of the person claiming that knowledge. 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These are as vital to the survival of Taoism as individual understanding and practice.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism&#8217;s rich palette of liturgy and ritual makes the Tao more real to human beings and provides a way in which humanity can align itself more closely to the Tao to produce better lives for all.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">The religious <a href=\"https:\/\/support.centreforelites.com\/en\/elements-compounds-and-mixtures\/\">elements<\/a> of Taoism draw much of their content from other Chinese religions (including many local cults) and so enfold a very wide range of culture and belief within the wings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/tao.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Tao<\/span><\/a>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"_Conclusion\"><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><b style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;\">Conclusion<\/span><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/tao.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">the Tao<\/span><\/a>. This is usually translated as <i>the Way<\/i>. But it&#8217;s hard to say exactly what this means. The Tao is the ultimate creative principle of the universe. All things are unified and connected in the Tao.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">Taoism originated in China. It is a religion of unity and opposites; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/taoism\/beliefs\/concepts.shtml\"><span color=\"windowtext\" style=\"text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;\">Yin and Yang<\/span><\/a>. The principle of Yin Yang sees the world as filled with complementary forces &#8211; action and non-action, light and dark, hot and cold, and so on. 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