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Origin

From the Tao Chinese “via resisted way, cosmic order”. The religion of the Taoismo rose on the same cultural land in which the nacque religion of the Confucianism and it used of the same elements uses you from this, that they formed the intellectual patrimony of China of the second half of 1° the millenium a.C. The Confucianism deduced some of the models to imitate in order to return to the moral virtues of the antichi king “knows to you”, the Taoismo subjected them to sour critic, pointing out in the bearers of those virtues the corruttori of primigenia the virtue of the Tao, made of nature and spontaneità. Being Lao contemporary Tzu and Confucius, the same historical situation of forfeiture of the Chou dynasty, it pushed the two founders to evoke the gold times in which the vigeva semplicità of the Tao (second the Tzu) and the charity and the justice of he knows emperors to you (according to Confucius). It must admit but that the concepts that we find to the base of the Taoismo and the Confucianism preesistevano to the founders of the two schools, which did not make that to elaborate them and to fix them in a body of doctrines: Lao Tzu with the written one, Confucius with the instruction. Today the Taoismo is diffused in the Chinese communities scattered for the world, and in particular to Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore.

Philosophical and religious aspects

The book opens with one description of the Tao. The word means properly via and therefore also condursi way, arranges. The Tao is a metaphysical abstraction that indicates the universal law of the nature, the spontaneous way to be and to behave itself of the universe. In so far as he is inexpressibile, ineffabile, indeterminato. It is before all the things, gives it existence to they. The manifest Tao in the universe, in the nature, since that that the things characterizes possesses them of the Tao is You. The word You, translate generally with virtue, does not have meant a closely moral but that one of vigor, power, faculty, effectiveness. It is practically the manifestation of the Tao, like already pointed out. The Tao, in how much origin, source, source, gives the existence to the things, while You diversity gives they. Principles that maintain the order natural of the Tao are yin and the yang (resumed also in the confucianism) opposite also from each other but in its turn complementary Yin is the feminine, passive and dark principle, identified with the moon; Yang the male, active and luminous principle, identified with the solle The Tao is perfect. If the man does not contrast it (Wu Wei not to act) in its to put into effect itself, all he will carry out according to the divine plan. The man must feel part of the all (Tao), because that that the man feels and sees is not other that illusory appearances. The man does not die, that that is buried is a corpse appearance, while the true body is met with glia ltri immortali The objective is sure the attainment of the holiness, the state of perfect harmony with the natural world, one be that it is acquired conforming to it through meditation and ecstasies that allow the identification with the tao. The symbol of the Tao is formed from two spirals: one that is bundled up and the other that carries out an only Center beginning from. The two spirals represent the reduction and rise of the opposite aspects of every energy of the cosmos. Like popular religion, the Taoismo put in existence various practical in order to upgrade and in order to render immortale the body: alimentary diets of varied type (included the respiratory ingestion of products obtained through alchemiche searches), techniques (like the yoga Chinese), ginniche, sexual and contemplative.

Works

The work of Lao Tzu is uniform in two parts, before on the Tao and the second one on You. Later on it was subdivided in the mystical number of 81 capitoletti, and the name of Tao You ching was given, seems, from one of its commentators, Have Kung. The work is also reached in an other writing, not much various one from before, cured from Wang Pi.

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