Taoism
Title: Taoism
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 4596 | Pages: 17 (approximately 235 words/page)
Taoism
Category: /Society & Culture/Religion
Details: Words: 4596 | Pages: 17 (approximately 235 words/page)
In order to go into Taoism at all, we must begin by being in the frame of mind in which it can understood. You cannot force yourself into this frame of mind, anymore than you can smooth rippled waters. But let's say that our starting point is that we forget what we know, or think we know, and that we suspend judgment about practically everything, returning to what we were when we were babies when
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analysis, and despite superficial trappings and different styles, we all share a common, universal need to be in touch with the spiritual world. Beneath the multicultural veneer, our essential human nature is similar.
The insight gives me a new perspective as well. It tells me that my sophomoric high school views were wrong. The East and the West are more alike than different. Perhaps true understanding between the two isn't an impossible dream after all!