What do you think about Taoism.

Reflecting gently on my contributions to this thread. 
I feel that this is an example of where my argument is intuitive rather that logical. It’s very difficult to argue something that you feel intuitively, as you’ve no way of expressing it in a way that the person you’re discussing it with can really understand what you mean.
I find that happens a lot.

Reflecting gently on my contributions to this thread. 
I feel that this is an example of where my argument is intuitive rather that logical. It’s very difficult to argue something that you feel intuitively, as you’ve no way of expressing it in a way that the person you’re discussing it with can really understand what you mean.
I find that happens a lot.

Meh! It ok.

From the book China Root:

Tao as an ongoing Way is simply an ontological description of natural process, perhaps manifest most immediately in the seasonal cycle: the pregnant emptiness of Absence in winter, Presence’s burgeoning forth in spring, the fullness of its flourishing in summer, and its dying back into Absence in autumn. And it is visible as the deep subject matter of Chinese landscape paintings, an art form that arose with Ch’an historically and was generally considered a method of Ch’an practice and teaching...

...And there is another fundamental concept that also describes Tao or Absence: ch’i ().  is often described as the universal life-force breathing through things. But this presumes a dualism that separates reality into matter and a breath-force (spirit) that infuses it with life. That dualism may be useful as an approach to understanding; but more fully understood, ch’i is both breath-force and matter simultaneously. Hence, it is nothing other than Tao or Absence, emphasizing its nature as a single tissue dynamic and generative through and through, the matter and energy of the Cosmos seen together as a single breath-force surging through its perpetual transformations...

...Sage wisdom in ancient China meant understanding the deep nature of consciousness and Cosmos, how they are woven together into a single fabric, for such understanding enables us to dwell as integral to Tao’s generative cosmological process. This is the awakening of Ch’an: “seeing original-nature.” As we will see, the essence of Ch’an practice is moving always at the generative origin-moment/place, for it is there that we move as integral to existence as a whole. The seminal Sixth Patriarch Prajna-Able (Hui Neng: 638–713) gave this a radical form when he said: “You can see the ten thousand dharmas within your own original-nature, for every dharma is there of itself in original-nature.” He was using dharma to mean the things and processes that make up our Cosmos, and so was expressing an idea prefigured as far back in Chinese philosophy as Mencius (fourth century B.C.E.), who said:

“The ten thousand things are all there in me. And there’s no joy greater than looking within and finding myself faithful to them."

--Hinton, David. China Root (p. 23). Shambhala. Kindle Edition.