who know anything about Tao Le Ching ...if so ...what are your thoughts?
2007-09-15 09:06:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
*Force begets force.
*One whose needs are simple will find them fulfilled.
*(Material) wealth does not enrich the spirit.
*Self-absorption and self-importance are vain and self-destructive.
*Victory in war is not glorious and not to be celebrated, but stems from devastation, and is to be mourned.
*The harder one tries, the more resistance one will create for oneself.
*The more one acts in harmony with the universe (the Mother of the ten thousand things), the more one will achieve, with less effort.
*The truly wise make little of their own wisdom for the more they know, the more they realize how little they know.
*When we lose the fundamentals, we supplant them with increasingly inferior values which we pretend are the true values.
*Glorification of wealth, power and beauty beget crime, envy and shame.
*The qualities of flexibility and suppleness are often superior to rigidity and strength.
*Everything is in its own time and place.
*The contrast of opposition — i.e. the differences between male and female, light and dark, strong and weak, etc. — helps us understand and appreciate the universe.
*Humility is the highest virtue.
*Knowing oneself is a virtue.
*Envy is our calamity; overindulgence is our plight.
~sounds slightly familiar...somewhat askew proverbs maybe, huh?!
~never heard of it till i just looked it up.
i'll just stick with the bible.
blessings.
2007-09-15 09:15:42 · answer #1 · answered by danielle:) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who's Tao Le Ching?
2007-09-15 09:09:35 · answer #2 · answered by Kat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are referring to the basic concepts of the Tao, you will find that many of them mirror some concepts in the Bible. For instance, yin and yang parallel the Biblical conscripts that there is a battle between the "flesh" and the "spirit" for control of the man. However, there are major differences in religious concepts between the two, so I wouldn't try to mix one with the other.
2007-09-15 09:13:35 · answer #3 · answered by loveneverfails 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many christians, but few who know about taoism. I am an atheist and I think taoism is a pretty cool way to look at things, but then I hardly count as christian.
2007-09-15 09:10:26 · answer #4 · answered by Rat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this the same as mao tse tong?
2007-09-15 09:41:41 · answer #5 · answered by adam_reith_1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Im a christian
2007-09-15 09:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋