Taoism, what is that?

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Follower said:
A good chapter of the Tao Te Ching:

2. When people see some things as beautiful,
other things become ugly.

Do the things that are not beautiful have to become ugly? Can they just be not as beautiful? Or beautiful in their own way?
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It is saying that no one can see everything as good without already having the concept of bad. Nothing can be beautiful without the concept of ugly to compare it to.

I think you are misunderstanding what it is trying to say.
 
doorster said:
I only used that account for less than a year while mine was banned for life for being "not Nice"
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oh I am sorry, I was remembering your dear father, May Allah swt yer7amo.. I didn't mean to upset you, it was a solecism..

:w:
 
Question. From what I know, Buddhism is big on "peace" and all that, anti war, peaceful resistance, nonviolence etc. What is taoism's stance on war? If it is against it, how do you reconcile that with your goal to join the army?
 
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crayon said:
Question. From what I know, Buddhism is big on "peace" and all that, anti war, peaceful resistance, nonviolence etc. What is taoism's stance on war? If it is against it, how do you reconcile that with your goal to join the army?
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Taoism has no 1 stance. Unless someone has made one for it, that I am not aware of.
 
Hmm ok, interesting, thanks.

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The Three Jewels, or Three Treasures, are basic virtues in Taoism. The Three Jewels are compassion, moderation and humility. They are also translated as kindness, simplicity (or the absence of excess), and modesty. Arthur Waley describes them as "[t]he three rules that formed the practical, political side of the author's teaching". He correlated the Three Treasures with "abstention from aggressive war and capital punishment", "absolute simplicity of living", and "refusal to assert active authority"

From wiki.

Is that just his interpretation of it?
 
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crayon said:
Hmm ok, interesting, thanks.

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The Three Jewels, or Three Treasures, are basic virtues in Taoism. The Three Jewels are compassion, moderation and humility. They are also translated as kindness, simplicity (or the absence of excess), and modesty. Arthur Waley describes them as "[t]he three rules that formed the practical, political side of the author's teaching". He correlated the Three Treasures with "abstention from aggressive war and capital punishment", "absolute simplicity of living", and "refusal to assert active authority"

From wiki.

Is that just his interpretation of it?
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Yes. We all have opinoins. I am joining the Army, for one, its a family tradition, two, its the only way I am gonna be able to afford college.
 
It's a example of how humanity is based on comparison

It is saying that no one can see everything as good without already having the concept of bad. Nothing can be beautiful without the concept of ugly to compare it to.

OK- yinyang -> ugly/beauty
 
Follower said:
It's a example of how humanity is based on comparison

It is saying that no one can see everything as good without already having the concept of bad. Nothing can be beautiful without the concept of ugly to compare it to.

OK- yinyang -> ugly/beauty
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Do you have a question here, or are you just stating a statement, I am rather confused. :blind:
 
crayon said:
Question. From what I know, Buddhism is big on "peace" and all that, anti war, peaceful resistance, nonviolence etc. What is taoism's stance on war? If it is against it, how do you reconcile that with your goal to join the army?
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:D, my state was previously colonized by Buddhist Thai for 500 years on and off, how is that Buddhists are always peaceful? Nowadays people especially those Laotians from the US keep mocking Southern Thais (usually Muslim) for the violence in Patani province like they never did violence to others. They had already hurt my feeling while I'm talking with them in nice manner, that is also a violence :blind:.
 
Follower said:
yin=ugly

yang=beauty

yinyang are opposites, you can't have one without the other.
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um ok. You never answered my question about your statement, but ok.

I would believe so, they are exact opposites, so yes Yin would be Ugly, Yang would be beauty, or vice-versa.
 

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