Quotes by category:Taoism

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

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Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

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Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.

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"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. by Benjamin Hoff

"What's that?" the Unbeliever asked.

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To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is no... by Confucius

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

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But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?

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True zazen is surrendering every moment. But surrendering to what? It really does not matter what we call it: God or the Tao or the Dharma or the Buddha or our true nature. . . . It is the act of letting go, of surrendering, that matters. The very act of letting go opens us up completely.

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Taoism extols the virtue of flexibility. What survives on earth is what effortlessly adapts to the changing environment and changing circumstances.

Ernie J Zelinski

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I don't try to define the cosmos, I know it's unknowable, but I can understand my place in the world and my place in the universe through a mixture of Taoism, Catholicism, Zen or whatever I have at hand.

Guillermo del Toro

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What is most necessary for people and what is given us in great abundance, are experiences, especially experiences of the forces within us. This is our most essential food, our most essential wealth. If we consciously receive all this abundance, the universe will pour into us what is called life in Judaism, spirit in Christianity, light in Islam, power in Taoism.

Jacob Needleman

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Lao-tze's Taoism is the exhibition of a way or method of living which men should cultivate as the highest and purest development of their nature.

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Taoism ... is the Religion of the Tao, 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.

Jan Jakob Maria de Groot

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The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

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The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

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Taoism is the way of water. The most frequent element or symbol refered to in Lao Tzu's wrtings is the symbol of water.

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Water is the symbol of pure consciousness. by Frederick Lenz

Water is the symbol of pure consciousness.

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Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life. by Frederick Lenz

Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life.

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Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence. by Frederick Lenz

Taoism is the gentle way. The path of least resistence.

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When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

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Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond. by Frederick Lenz

Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond.

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