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"(Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things. | The first organized school of Taoism was the Orthodox Unity or Celestial Masters school, founded by Zhang Daoling in 142 C.E. after a revelation by "the personified god of the Tao, Taishang laujun, the Highest Venerable Lord" <ref>Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 3.</ref> | ||
"There were various precursors of this first organized school of Taoism. First, in terms of doctrine, there were the ancient philoso¬ phers of the Tao, Laozi and Zhuangzi with their major works Daode jing (Scripture of the Tao and the Virtue) and Zhuangzi (fourth and third centuries B.C.E.). Describing the world as created and sup¬ ported by the Tao, encouraging people to pursue simplicity and spiritual cultivation in order to recover and realize this all-encom ¬ passing force, and developing the ideal of the sage and the perfect human being, these works furnished the conceptual framework for the later religion."<ref>Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 4.</ref> | |||
"(Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things. | |||
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful."<ref>Hinton, David. The Four Chinese Classics. Counterpoint, 2016.</ref> | Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful."<ref>Hinton, David. The Four Chinese Classics. Counterpoint, 2016.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 20:17, 17 June 2021
The Tao is the ancient Chinese word for Undifferentiated Consciousness.
Syncretic Terms
Undifferentiated Consciousness > Absolute Essence, Ain, Dhat, Govinda, Light of the Void, Nondual God, Para Brahman, Supreme Essence, Tao, The Imperishable, The Unity, Undifferentiated Godhead, Unmanifest, Wuji
Notes
The first organized school of Taoism was the Orthodox Unity or Celestial Masters school, founded by Zhang Daoling in 142 C.E. after a revelation by "the personified god of the Tao, Taishang laujun, the Highest Venerable Lord" [1]
"There were various precursors of this first organized school of Taoism. First, in terms of doctrine, there were the ancient philoso¬ phers of the Tao, Laozi and Zhuangzi with their major works Daode jing (Scripture of the Tao and the Virtue) and Zhuangzi (fourth and third centuries B.C.E.). Describing the world as created and sup¬ ported by the Tao, encouraging people to pursue simplicity and spiritual cultivation in order to recover and realize this all-encom ¬ passing force, and developing the ideal of the sage and the perfect human being, these works furnished the conceptual framework for the later religion."[2]
"(Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things.
Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful."[3]
"(The Tao) produces (all things) and nourishes them."[4]
Footnotes
- ↑ Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 3.
- ↑ Kohn, Livia, ed. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology. State University of New York, 1993. p. 4.
- ↑ Hinton, David. The Four Chinese Classics. Counterpoint, 2016.
- ↑ Hinton, David. The Four Chinese Classics. Counterpoint, 2016.
