What does Taoism do, and what is Taoism?

Immortals are noble beings, and there are no measurable people.

Taoism is the native religion of China, with "Tao" as the highest faith. Taoism is based on the concept of ghost worship in ancient China, based on the ideas of Huang and Lao Taoism, and inherits the derivation and formation of immortal magic since the Warring States period.

Taoism in the academic circles now refers to the "Tao" as the highest belief on the basis of ancient Chinese religious beliefs, inheriting most of the religious concepts and practice methods such as Fang Xian Dao, Huang Lao Dao and folk belief in heavenly gods. Mainly to worship Taishang Laojun as the master, and to Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" and other classics for the cultivation of immortal realm classics non-cultivation of Allah to the classics, the pursuit of cultivation to become a god of a Chinese religion, Taoism to become an immortal or become a god The main methods of Taoism to become an immortal or become a god can be roughly summarized into five kinds, taking immortal medicine, outer pill, etc., refining qi and guiding, inner dan cultivation, and through Taoist rituals and their own magic cultivation and other rituals to merit to become immortals, common later immortals are mostly inner dan cultivation and merit to become gods and practitioners of Taoism.

The basic teachings of Taoism can be summarized as:

One. "tract"It is the highest belief in Taoism. "tract"It is the essence of nothingness, the root of all things in heaven and earth, and the eternal existence of time and space. "tract"is unique.

Two. Lao Tzu is"tract"The incarnation of,"tract"It can evolve into many gods. Earthly gods and human ghosts.

Three. "tract"It can be obtained by repairing. Through the cultivation of various Taoist techniques, people can make the gods and gods"tract"Together, that is, attaining the Tao.

Four. Those who have attained the Tao can have all kinds of supernatural powers, and can live forever and become immortals.

1. Taoism. [dào jiào]

One of the major religions in China. It was established by Zhang Daoling in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Originally, it was called Wudou Rice Dao and Heavenly Master Dao.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, religious forms were gradually completed. Worship Lao Dan as the ancestor, the honorific title of "Taishang Laojun", with "Lao Tzu", "Zhengyi Jing" and "Taiping Cave Extreme Sutra" as the main classics, and worship the Jade Emperor God as the highest god. It is important for people to detach themselves from reality and become immortals.

2. Inducement. [jiào yòu]

Educational inducement. Tang Huangfu once wrote the poem "Gift to the Venerable Master": "The law is preachy, and the monks are old and smoky."

Zizhi Tongjian: The Second Year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty": "Wang Lie's instrument industry is ......Be good at inducing. "Ming Tang Shunzhi's "Mr. Lu Shenzhai's Life Preface":

The ancients, the elderly Taoist scholars, respected the three elders and the five watches, thinking that they were the teachers of the princes; He is not a teacher of the Lu Xu tribe, and he teaches his villagers to teach and induce. ”

3. Teaching by people. [rén jiào]

In the Romance of the Gods", one gasification, three Qing Taiqing Ju, the Great Red Heavenly Immortal, the Taiqing Realm, the Xuanqi of the Sun Divine Baojun, the Moral Tianzun, the Mixed Yuan God, the six heavenly sages, the sect founded by the Taishang Laojun.

4. Teaching. [jiào xù]

Educational encouragement. "Continuation of the Governance of Tongjian: Song Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu Nine Years": "From now on, the scholars and doctors have been practicing all their duties, thinking more about teaching, thinking about the beauty of the family, not being ashamed of the scum, and it is difficult to reduce from the end. ”