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Taoism
In the seventh and eighth centuries Taoism was the major religion in China. Taoist tradition has been divided into many different branches. It is used as a religion but it also as a technique of control. The two main branches are philosophical and religious. The two branches have risen to great complexity known as the ....
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.... filled with Taoist ideas and beliefs. The Chuang Tzu says “While the Tao always seems to be in flux, the balance of its forces is forever the same, so that in a larger sense it is unchanging, and it is absolutely indivisible”(Creel 1970pg.2). (Which I see as if a person wishes to be one with the Tao you must fully understand, and in every way connected to the Tao). One cannot only be half heartedly into the ideas and realities of the Tao or it is not so. Chuang Tzu goes on and says, “It follows that it cannot be described in words or even comprehended by thought ....
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