Quotes About Taoism

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way. And that's much better than happiness.

For the Taoists, meaning is to be found on the border between the ever-entwined pair. To walk that border is to stay on the path of life, the divine Way.

The wisdom lay in this–that here she must remain Manchu, Chinese; any attempt to become a part of this incomprehensible country, any effort to involve herself in its mysterious acts or thought, would be disastrous. She must remain calm, unassertive, let the eternal Tao take its way.

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

What is perhaps most characteristically Taoist about The Art of War in such a way as to recommend itself to the modern day is the manner in which power is continually tempered by a profound undercurrent of humanism.

Taoism has fostered both material and mental progress, both technological development and awareness of the potential dangers of that very development, always striving to encourage balance between the material and spiritual sides of humankind.

La vie religieuse de la Chine, dans ses fondements, est très antérieure aux trois grands courants de sa vie spirituelle: le confucianisme, le taoïsme (à peu près au même moment) et, bien plus tard, le bouddhisme.

La perfection, la sainteté recherchée par les taoïstes, c'est l'union mystique avec le tao éternel: c'est 's'effacer vivant dans cette présence originelle et souveraine qui enveloppe tout sans être jamais enveloppé', dans le 'sans forme qui engendre toutes les formes, dans le tao qui possède une vie éternelle'. Et c'est atteindre, du même coup, l'immortalité.

the Taoist Absolute was the Relative.

In Taoist philosophy, 'yin' is the feminine principle, representing the forces of earth, while 'yang' is the masculine principle, representing spirit.

The law of non-interference with nature. — The law of non-interference with nature is a basic principle of Taoism [stating] that one should be in harmony with, not rebellion against, the fundamental laws of the universe. Preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don't interfere. Remember never to assert your self against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but to control it by swinging with it.

While the mainstream Western mind visualizes the good and the evil as two opposite forces, each attempting to annihilate the other, the Taoists envision them as interdependent and complementary. The yin-yang is the primordial symbol for creative tension, without which life and growth are not possible, This understanding that the opposites are complementary is essential to Zen's gentle attitude toward life.

According to the central concepts of Taoism, tao is divided into a fundamental pair of opposites, yang and yin. Yang signifies warmth, light, maleness; yin is cold, darkness, femaleness. Yang is also heaven, yin earth. From the yang force arises shen, the celestial portion of the human soul, and from the yin force comes kwei, the earthly part. As a microcosm, man is a reconciler of the opposites. Heaven, man, and earth form the three chief elements of the world, the san-tsai.

My feeling or philosophy is closer to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, 'cause it's the most practical.

Las tres joyas del taoísmo son la compasión, la moderación y la humildad…

Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. "Practise not doing and everything will fall into place," says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism's primer.

The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong.

There's no escaping the Taoist adage, "Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak.

Whereas Buddhism believes it would be best if we could simply ignore the world, the source of our psychic pain, the Taoists wanted nothing so much as to have complete union with this same world.

Star Wars is Chinese Taoism.

The supreme Taoist leader always leaves people to choose and pursue their own way of life, their own conception of the good.

wu-wei, or "not forcing," which means to take the line of least resistance in all of one's actions, and by doing so, create more strength.

I N TAOISM there's a famous saying that goes, "The Tao that can be spoken is not the ultimate Tao." Another way you could say that, although I've never seen it translated this way, is, "As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else." The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

I've discovered that you can solve many difficulties with what Lao-tzu called non-action