The Tao and the Yin and Yang
The nature of the practice of TAO is joy and irreverence. Is open to the dark side and metaphysical experience. Derived from popular culture and is part of a religious tradition that includes trance, mediums and psychic transformation.
Their philosophical side is found in two books published in China in the sixth century BC. The Lao-tz'u or Tao Te Ching which is inspired by the even more ancient Taoist wisdom of I Ching or Book of Changes. And the Zhuang-Tz'u.
The Chinese believed in the existence of an ultimate reality which gave an overall logic to the whole universe. An ultimate reality which was both origin and end of the multiplicity of things and events we observe.
This Logic Set, this unifying principle, called it Tao, the Way, the Way, Meaning, Eternity.
In the Tao Te Ching says that the Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao.
So, the most practical, as good Taoists, is to become ourselves in TAO.
is to transform the Jing and Shen chi.
Chi is the life force or life force.
The Jing is the generative power or sexual essence.
We grow these energy, preserve and refine them to convert (Taoist alchemical process) in Shen.
Next we will use the Shen to enter the Wu Chi (the undifferentiated primordial void, origin and source of all things) and return to the TAO.
If the TAO is a unifying principle, origin and end of all things, we must accept the final unity of all contrasts and, especially, the unity of opposites. Opposites are abstract concepts belonging to the realm of thought and, as such, are relative. By the simple act of focusing our attention on any concept, we create its opposite. So just realizing that good and evil, pleasure and pain, life and death are not absolute experiences belonging to different categories but the end portions of a single unit. Confucius created the Yin and Yang symbols for us to connect the multiplicity of the material world with the single origin, or Tao, Yin and Yang are the first division of the unit, and therefore, are mutually complementary, "opposite" in our perception.
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