Taoism

Comes from China

Began with a society of very primitive Chinese living very close to nature, it didn’t used to be a philosophy but instead a way of life.

Natural = Ideal.  Things in nature are “perfect”

The very moment that you start asking “philosophical” questions like “How am I?” is a sign that something has gone wrong. We have become un-natural. A normal person would know who they are or what is right and wrong. You don’t see plants and animals trying to figure out who they are or what is right and wrong.

PU = Original Self

Because of the pressures of society and such, at a very young age we start to live a lie or go wrong. We are actors and we sometimes do not even know what our opinions are anymore. We become unnatural and loose the taste of our own being. We do not know what to do because we do not know what to be.

The Tao- The collective naturalness of the universe

The universe is perfect and harmonious, because there is a general feel that all little things are part of the same large things.

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