One thing that I like about Taoism is the fact that there is not a need to believe in something. While the religious portion of Taoism may burn incense to the gods (a ritual added into Taoism thousands of years after the fact) the original philosophical does not require any form of belief. There is only an objective which is a shift in consciousness.
With this shift is the realization that you are just a hallucination. The body exists to the world but the person that seems to be wrapped up inside actually doesn’t exist. There is no soul or spirit from some unknown place that suddenly pops into existence at birth. The universe is expending energy as if playing a game that you are an actual person. It takes energy and divides it up in all the people of the world. Just energy… no actual person… observe nature.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Better yet--there is no objective :D
There is a necessary belief:
That the way things really are is not the way we think they are.
Lao Tzu asks:
"Do you think the world is perfect?"
Of course, the thinking mind says a vehement NO!
Believing that it actually is, helps one to realize that the "NO!" is in fact false. Only the mind takes perfection and judges it imperfect.
I may be wrong about this.
Agree. Just energy. And even belief systems are just more holograms to the long list we've created.
So bad we often forget we've created all this in the first place. WE.
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