Taoism compatability?

Question

Is Taoism compatable with other religions?

Can you be a Christian, Muslim, ect. and still be Taoist?


Please hlep me out on this, thanks

Answer 1

Good question:
Tao teh King, was the first written appearance of true knowledge of life, death and the spiritual universe in relation to the physical universe in China.
"The way to solving the mystery which underlies all mysteries."
Lao-Tzu wrote down a spiritual philosophy or sacred lore.He didn't "invent" it. He merely was aware of it through observation and experience and wrote it down. (He wouldn't even have done that if the gatekeeper hadn't insisted he did this before he left the town.)
The Veda existed 10,000 years ago.....independantly in India,
a vast body of written work...125,000 to 150,000 volumes. (Very little has been translated)
The Dhyana followed this appearing in India.This again is a spiritual philosophy or sacred lore.( Dharma was a legendary Hindu sage.)
Dhyana again means Knowing and Looking. The Veda, the Tao, the Dharma, all mean Knowing. They are all religious works. These are actually the religions of about two thirds of the population of earth.
We call it Buddhism in the Western World. It actually has very little to do with Buddha. The Dhyana is what the Buddhists talk about and is their background.
There were many Bohdis, or Buddhas.The greatest was Gautama Sakyamuni.
He was looked upon as the founder of the Dhyana, but it existed quite a long time before he came along.He was a great teacher, and scientific philosopher.
He wrote in Dharma-Parda:
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded upon our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts."
This is the same theme of Knowing and religious philosophy that runs through these all these particular philosophers.
This is what civilized the East 500 years before Jesus appeared in the Middle East.
Traditionally Christ is supposed to have studied in India. At that time Europe and the Middle Weast was still barbaric.
Christ brought this philosophy from the East into the Middle East...."Love thy neighbor" "Refrain from the use of force " etc
The God he talked about is the same God talked about in the
Veda's Hymn of the Dawn Child.
Anyway the history of religion if you study it shows this theme of wisdom or knowing. This hope for the survival and immortality of the human soul.It has shown up in other cultures even in Rome there was a cult coming from Persia, wiped out by Christianity that had the same basic idea, or immortality, this hope of salvation.......
My point is that if you really LOOK at the basis of ALL religions,
you will find complete compatibility in their ultimate purpose.
Yes there are complexities and alterations added to the basic truths but the basic truths are there to be found and they are the same, and that is where you will find compatability.
(Which is a whole lot better than all this bloody arguing!!!@)

Answer 2

That depends on the kind of Taoism and also how exclusive the other religion is. Taoism is very broad and includes a more intellectual philosophocal branch where people study the philosophy of ancient Taoist sages and a more animistic spiritualistic branch that is into gods and ghosts and spirits. Many or even most of the teachings of the ancient sages are similar to wisdom literature in the Bible and even to things like the Beatitudes in the New Testament, and are not incompatible with Christianity and there has even been suggestion that those sages may have been prophets sent by God to China as they came at a time when God was also sending prophets to Israel and Judah.

Answer 3

I think Taoism as a philosophy is compatable with a lot of religions as long as the worship is taken from a Nature perspective. Many people of different religions see God in Nature.
The Tao is older than God.

Answer 4

The Tao has no God as described in the Bible. There is no one controlling nature. The two are in a complete philosophical conflict

Answer 5

Absolutely and you would be a better whatever by following the Tao
teachings.