Taoism1
Date Submitted: 11/03/2003 06:49:05
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 7 pages (1982 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Religion
Length: 7 pages (1982 words)
Taoism
Throughout history, Taoism has been one of the most influential
religions of Eastern culture. This is certainly one of the most unique
of all religions. Many Taoists, in fact, do not even consider it a
religion; and in many ways it is not. Taoists make no claim that the
Tao exists.1 That is what essentially separates Taoism from the rest of
the world religions: there is no heated debate or battle over Taoist
doctrine; …
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…Mary’s Press, 1986), p. 117.
16 Ibid.
17 Bettencourt.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Goetz, p. 407
23 Bettencourt.
24 Ibid.
25 Alan Watts, Tao: The Watercourse Way (New York: Pantheon Books,
1975), p. 51.
26 Bettencourt.7
27 Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching (San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers,
1977), p. 59.
28 Watts, p. 51.
29 Bettencourt.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid.
33 Lawrence Durrell, A Smile in the Mind’s Eye (New York: Universe
Books, 1982), p. 18.
34 Pastva, p. 117.
35 Durrell, p. 19.
36 Pastva, p. 117.
37 Ibid.
38 Goetz, p. 399.
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid., p. 404.
42 Ibid.
43 Pastva, p. 115
44 Ibid.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
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