Transcript Taoism Caroline &Ashley

Taoism
Caroline &Ashley
The Philosophy
• Humans should accept life as it is and not
wish for life to be any other way
• Wu-wei is a phrase that translates into “nondoing,” which means letting things come
naturally
• Yin and yang
• Heaven, earth, and humanity all come from
the yin and yang
Yin and Yang
• are complete opposites of each other but
compliment each other
• The white part of the symbol is male, heat, passive,
day and heaven
• The black part of the symbol is female, coolness,
night, active, and earth
• Black and white do not oppose each other, but
they complete each other
• Everything comes from the forces of yin and yang
The Religion
• The symbol in the background is “Tao,”
which means “The Way”
• Taoism religion is blended with Buddhism
and Confucianism
• T’ai Chi is “Ultimate Cause,” which is the
reason for everything in existence
Myths
• The Jade Emperor
-controlled the heavens
• kuei
-means ghosts
-these ghost bring with them death
Tao-Te Ching
• Written by a man named Lao –Tzu
• It is a collection of all the beliefs of Taoism
• These beliefs have been practiced since the
b.c. era
The Five Elements
• The five elements in Taoism are, from
greatest to least important, water, fire, wood,
metal, and earth
• The elements are thought to produce all the
seasons: wood/spring (wood gives birth to
fire) fire/summer (fire gives birth to ash or
earth. Earth then gives birth to metal)
metal/autumn (metal gives birth to water)
water/winter
Bibliography
Occhiogrosso, Peter. The Joy of Sects.
Doubleday: New York, 1994. 147-149.
“Taoism” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 4
Jan 2005. Wikipedia. 4Jan 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist