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Old 12-12-2004, 08:38 PM  
Donny
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Originally posted by LaoTzu
I predict Taoism will make a comeback in the next decade or so.
I had to look that one up:

www.google.com

define: taoism

Definitions of Taoism on the Web:

A Chinese religion and philosophy that sees the universe as engaged in ceaseless motion and activity. All is considered to be in continual flux. The universe is in trinsically dynamic. This continual cosmic process is called the "Tao" by the Chinese. The process is described in terms of Yin and Yang. (See: Yin/Yang.)
logosresourcepages.org/na-dict.html


A religion developed from a Chinese mystic philosophy.
http://www.buddhistdoor.com/bdoor/co...s/glosst-z.htm


Philosophy school that want people to achieve harmony with the nature
www.geocities.com/tao4dummies/glossary.html


A spiritual belief system developed in ancient China, based on the harmonisation of counterbalancing forces, such as dark and light. The aim is to achieve the tao (or dao), which is comparable with the idea of enlightenment.
www.monasticreiki.info/glossary.htm


A Chinese religion and philosophy that sees the universe as engaged in ceaseless motion and activity. All is considered to be in continual flux. .The universe is in trinsically dynamic. This continual cosmic process is called the "Tao" by
www.aznewage.com/dictionary%20t-v.htm


(pronounced: Dow-ism) Meaning "The Way". Ancient Indigenous religion of China approximately 4700 years old. Taoism seeks harmony and long life it is combined with pantheism and magical practices
http://www.webeffects-aus.com/quicks.../glossary.html


the religion founded about 700 years after the death of Lao-tzu around the ideas of the old Chinese sage.
www.storytellingmonk.org/ref/glossaries/t.htm


Living in balance and harmony with the universal way. Living close to nature. "is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature". Taoism is a term meaning 'Path' or 'Way', but denoting in this peculiar case the way, course or movement of the Universe, her processes and methods. In other words, Taoism is the Religion of Heaven and Earth, of the Cosmos, of the World or Nature in the broadest sense of these words. Hence we may call it Naturism.
home.att.net/~lbbatkd/definitions.html


One of the great philosophical traditions in China, according to which the individual will find peace and tranquility through quietly following the Tao.
highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/076742011x/student_view0/chapter16/glossary.html


The philosophical system set forth in Tao Te Ching.
http://www.geocities.com/astrologyfo...gGlossary.html


or Daoism. Chinese religious tradition, pointing to or revealing the "way" (Tao) that is the reality underlying physical and biological creation. See: [2: Taoism in P&C] [3: http://mars.superlink.net/user/fsu/philo.html ] . [2: home] [3: Tao The King]; [Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" ].
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Nook/2020/glosoz.htm


a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn


religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn


popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn


philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
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