What is the Taoist worldview? What do ghosts and gods look like?

Taoism takes "Tao" as the highest belief, believes that "Tao" is the origin of all things, mainly worships Taishang Laojun as the leader, and takes Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" as the classic of cultivating immortals, and pursues cultivation to become a kind Allah of Chinese religion of immortals.

Based on Lao Tzu's philosophical ideas and Taoist school of thought, Taoism gradually carried forward the metaphysical part of it, and became a religious system with the goal and final destination of attaining enlightenment and becoming immortal or meritorious. In layman's terms,The Taoist worldview is that people can become immortals through cultivation, or accumulate merits to become gods, so as to achieve immortality and eternal life

Taoism worships gods, immortals, and ghosts, and also prays for the protection and protection of the gods. So what are the ghosts and gods that Taoism talks about?

Immortal. Immortal is the ultimate state of cultivation for Taoist believersThrough the practice of health preservation, you can gradually reach the realm of Tao and become an immortalto live forever. What impressed everyone should be that after Sun Wukong made trouble in the Heavenly Palace, he secretly ate the elixir cultivated in the gossip furnace of Taishang Laojun.

Ghost. Taoism believes that ghosts are the state of ordinary people after death, and that people have seven souls and six spirits, and that when they practice to a certain extent, they can gather the seven souls and six spirits in their bodies to prevent them from escaping or spreading. WhileIf you don't practice, after death, the seven souls and six spirits will leave your body and become ghosts and go to the underworld

God. In Taoism, the one who can also live forever is to become a god, and it is believed that if a person can make meritorious contributions to society while he is alive, make great contributions in the war to protect the country and the people, or become a model of loyalty, filial piety, and martyrdomAfter death, he will be canonized by the imperial court or praised by the heavenly court, and thus worshipped as a god

Taoism integrates the early science and technology of ancient society, especially health preservation and health enhancement, and explains and exerts the nature of mysticism. So that the art is subordinate to its way, that is, its methods and other arts are controlled by its righteousness.

Taoism, the only religion in China, shows the simple and practical ideological characteristics of the Chinese people, and the changes and development of Taoism over the past thousand years have had a profound impact on the development of social civilization and values.

Taoism looks at the world and divides it into five levels: "morality, benevolence, righteousness, and propriety."

Science can't be seen or touched. But it's everywhere. Every molecule, atom, is imbued with the principles of electromagnetic mechanics.

As human beings, the process of comprehending science is a process of "infinite approach". In every generation, the level of human science and technology will soar. But the more you know, the more you don't know. Humanity never knows what the end of science is.

Tao = Science", so the principles of the Tao Te Ching and modern science are the same. It is easy to understand Taoism.

"Virtue" determines the highest achievement that can be achieved in a cause.

We can also call it "faith".

The competition of civilizations is, in the final analysis, a competition of beliefs. Do you believe in good or evil?

Faith guides behavior. Guided by a false belief, the more you do, the more you get wrong.

Virtue "determines the big frame.

The arbitration process is at the bottom, with religion and legal customs.

"Ren" means to tinker within the existing framework and do the best possible.

Therefore, "benevolence" is not a very high nickname. Those who are really strong and break the pattern, and the final nickname is "X ancestor".

In the environment of "righteousness", "justice" is often limited to the little brothers around him.

The whole society is based on brothers, huddles, gangs, and small interests of the department.

At the macro level, it is manifested in the fragmentation of ministries and commissions, the transformation of local mountains into mountains, and the transformation of warlords.

The meaning of "rite" refers to the complete ferratization of the whole society. There is no one to stand up for justice anymore. Even for the sake of the few friends around him, no one is willing to stand up.

All of them are making small calculations. They are all hurting each other. It's dark.

Excerpt from: Dao, Deren Yili F1050

The worldview of modern Taoism. Life is short, people believe in Taoism, what are the benefits of identifying with Taoism? What can Taoism do to help people? How far it can go.

1. One's own current interests and needs = healthy, not sick, strong. There is knowledge and reason. Excellent foundation for personal survival. Seek good fortune and avoid evil.

Taoist knowledge (water is more than Tao, all things are made together. ）

Taoist rituals (Tai Chi, Chinese Medicine, Diet Therapy, Sitting Forget, Neidan. Able to regulate one's physical health, regulate emotions, and relax the mind.

What Taoist gods and dragon gods can do (help people regulate their spiritual qi, so as to seek good fortune and avoid evil).

2. Future interests = material abundance, oneself is happy, and children and grandchildren are happy.

Taoist knowledge (keep the center, do what you want and don't go beyond the rules).

Taoist rituals (Feng Shui, Jiao Jiao). The Theory of the Qi Family.

Taoist gods and dragon gods can help (preaching gods, Xuanhuang, and Lingbao gods can help each other).

3. Social and national governance needs = social security, good customs, and broad space for material development.

Taoist knowledge (the ancestors had a stable living environment, and the regional customs were prosperous. ）

Taoist rituals (ancestor worship, all kinds of relief of suffering, recommendation of the Jiao).

Taoist gods and dragon gods can help (early warning, quelling astronomical disasters, climate disasters, geological disasters).

Fourth, the needs of the nation to be strong and peaceful = for the nation, the country, and mankind to remember the glorious cause for all generations. After death, the soul can live happily and unharmed in a peaceful state.

Taoist knowledge (various classics).

Taoist rituals (Luo Tian Da Jiao, etc.).

Taoist gods and dragon gods can help (early warning, quelling cultural disasters, cultural extinction, civilization destruction, protecting the people to seek good fortune and avoid evil, prosperity and reproduction).

5. What do Taoist priests need to do.

1. Break the superstition of reincarnation.

2. Respect the dragon and communicate with the dragon god. so that the national civilization will not be destroyed and sunk.

3. Communicate with the gods of the Great Dao. So that the people everywhere can reproduce happily.

Fourth, understand the favorable time and place and the humanities of each region, counsel the yin and yang cycle of heaven and earth, and participate in the prosperity of various regions.

There are many things in the world that are difficult to explain, even if science has developed very well, but some things in Du Yu have been difficult to explain since ancient timesAs a result, there will be some "ghosts and gods" worldview, in fact, in science, in fact, later, for example, the famous Newton believed in "theology", and many people will ask what the "ghost and god" worldview in science is? In fact, it may be a mythological story, or it may be a matter of the existence of the universe.

I don't think I would have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. The scientific community generally does not believe in "ghosts and gods" unless scientists see and confirm it with their own eyes.

Scientists explain that ghosts and spirits are usually an unknown magnetic field that causes a person's brain waves to react, causing the person to see something special.

There are no ghosts and gods in the scientific worldview, and the reason for the emergence of ghosts and gods may be due to physical paralysis or phantoms caused by some blurred vision.

The geographical worldview of ancient Taoism is recorded in the Taoist Lingbao Sutra

The shape of heaven and earth is like an egg. Within the Liuhe, it is as round as a coffin. The sun and the moon haunt, running above the day and under the earth. Up and down things, like a flywheel.

Taoism has the spirit of conquering nature, and various practices that seek to break through the limits of life have promoted the development of ancient science and technology, and East Asian chemistry, mineralogy, botany, and pharmacology all originated from Taoism. Taoist mathematics has an indissoluble relationship with ancient mathematics, and has also made great achievements in the fields of optics, magnetism, acoustics, and astronomy.

The core of Taoist thought is the "Tao", which is believed to be the origin of the universe and the law that governs all movements in the universe. Lao Tzu once said in his writings: "There is a mixture of things, and they are born from nature."

Xiao He! Nothing! Independent and unchanging, it can be the mother of heaven and earth.

I don't know its name, but I am called the way of the strong name" (Lao Tzu, chapter 25).

Taishi Gong"Sima Qian's father, the Taishi of the Western Han Dynasty, Ling Sima Tan, once wrote an article entitled "On the Essence of the Six Schools", which summarized the pre-Qin school into six schools: Taoism, Confucianism, Mo, Name, Law, and Yin and Yang, and expounded the gist of the six schools and their gains and losses. He said: "Taoism makes people single-minded, moving and intangible, and supporting all things.

It is also a technique, because of the great shun of yin and yang, the goodness of Confucianism and ink, the key to the naming of the law, the migration of time, the change of things, the establishment of customs, everything is appropriate, the appointment is easy to take, and the work is less. "Its technique is based on nothingness, and it is used according to the law. There is no form, there is no permanent form, so it can investigate the feelings of all things.

Not for things first, not for things after, so can be the master of all things. ”

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty ruled the country with Taoist ideology, so that the people could recuperate from the harsh government of the Qin Dynasty. History calls it the rule of the cultural landscape. Subsequently, the Confucian scholar Dong Zhongshu advocated to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty the policy of "deposing the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and was later emperors.

Since then, Taoism has become a non-mainstream thought. Although Taoism was not official, it continued to play an important role in the development of ancient Chinese thought. Wei and Jin metaphysics, Song and Ming science were all developed by combining Taoist thought.

After Buddhism was introduced to China, it was also influenced by Taoism, and Zen Buddhism was inspired by Zhuangzi in many ways. Among the various schools of Taoism in the pre-Qin period, although there were not as many disciples as Confucianism and Mohistism, the status was not as high as that of Confucianism. However, with the development of history, Taoism, with its unique understanding of the universe, society and life, has presented eternal value and vitality in philosophical thought.

Taoism was later absorbed by religions such as Zhang Lu's Five Buckets and Rice Taoism, and evolved into Taoism, one of China's important religions. The Wei and Jin dynasties took turns to pay more attention to alchemy when talking about metaphysics. As a result, Taoism and Taoism are often confused.

Zhang Lu, also known as Zhang Daoling, the founder of the "Five Buckets of Rice Dao" and is also considered the founder of Taoism).