tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17608074061388092602024-02-19T03:45:58.976-08:00Today i've met a dragonAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603879206517342444noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760807406138809260.post-29826184959368937702012-02-06T09:48:00.000-08:002012-09-18T12:25:10.993-07:00Daoism - an introduction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Daoism is a philosophical and religious movement which roots are far deep in the chinese history, and that today is widely spread among East Asia.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> We can find its distinctive features and complexity in the concept of dao ( 道 ) : way, path, ineffable and already existent before the universe itself, perfect peace, origin and vital pulse of every being.<br />The dao can be thought as nothing or emptyness. Knowing it equals the mystic expierence of being in tune with it, gazing upon the universe exceeding every dichotomy between good and evil, life and death and the concepts of time and space, aiming at an all-forgetting wisdom. <br />As a reflection about experiecing the dao, the ineffable Absolute, daoism seems based on a doctrine and a practice that seem impossible. If the real dimeonsion of dao is concealed by the most arcane of the secrets, how can we find and walk the Way? This is but only one of the paradox daoism struggle with.<br /><br />But is exactly the paradox that comes to be the key of a knowledge always alluding at truths far beyond every possible description of which we can only have a glimpse, eluding every logic.<br /><br />Daoism characterized China's culture so deeply that chinese arts and science are, in some way, daoist themselves. <br />Furthermore, the daoist message, promoting harmony and tolerance, ask us to not forget that human beings are, even before being social animals, cosmic entities who need a balanced development - both physical and psychic, private and public, religious and political, according to nature laws.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15603879206517342444noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760807406138809260.post-30523633188645778552012-01-31T17:09:00.000-08:002012-01-31T17:14:47.921-08:00The Mother of all things<div align="left">
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<img alt="" border="" class="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Yin_yang.svg/200px-Yin_yang.svg.png" style="float: left; margin: 5px;" title="" /><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">I've started this blog to share my love for chinese culture. Let's start with something as classic as immortal like the Daodejing which is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our own times.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: black;">This one is first stanza from the Daodejing</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">道可道,非常道。名可名,非常名。無名天地之始;有名萬物之母。故常無欲,以觀其妙;常有欲,以觀其徼。此兩者,同出而異名,同謂之玄。玄之又玄,衆妙之門。</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br />(Embodying the Dao)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Dao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Dao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mother of all things .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Always without desire we must be found,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">If its deep mystery we would sound;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">But if desire always within us be,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place, it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.</span></div>
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