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Cosmic Vital Energy
Complimentary Forces
Letting the World Take its Natural Course
"When Nothing is Done, Nothing is Left Undone" - Tao Te Ching
"That Which is Naturally So"
Awareness of Tao
Virtue
Non-Being and Being
Essence of Tao
-Source of Creation -The Ultimate -Inexpressible and Indefinable -Unnameable -Natural Universe as a Whole -Way of Nature as a Whole
Religion Banned
Revelation of the Tao to Zhang Daoling
Popular in Taiwan
"Humans are Teachable, Improvable, and Perfectible Through Personal and Communal Endeavour"
Xiao (Filial Piety)
Shu (Reciprocity)
Zhong (Loyalty to One's True Nature)
Li (Ritual Norms)
Revitalization of Nobility and Virtue
Importance of Elders and Ancestors
6th-5th Centuries BCE
Supreme Sage K'ung-fu-tsu (Confucius)
Mahayana Buddhism
Major Forms
Zen, Nichiren, Tendai, and Pure Land
Ways of Worship
Ritual, Devotion, Meditation
Deities, Celestial Beings, Other Traditional Religious Elements
China and Japan
Theravada Buddhism
Focuses on Monastic Life and Meditation
Atheistic, Philosophical in Nature
Southeast Asia
Worship
Rituals
Karmic Acts
Meditation
Inter-Related
Ever-Changing
Path to End Suffering
Noble Eightfold Path
Right --> View, Thought, Speech, Conduct, Vocation, Effort, Attention and Meditation
Nirvana
End of Suffering
"One Must Cease All Desires"
Suffering has a cause
Attachment or Misplaced Desire Rooted in Ignorance.
Suffering is Everywhere and a Part of Life
"Sheltered Young Prince Shocked by Suffering he Saw Outside, Left his Life of Luxury to Seek Answers"
Became Buddha ("Enlightened One")
"Taught Dharma (the Path to Liberation from Suffering) and Establishing the Sangha (a Community of Monks)"
Priests
Texts
Seeking Awareness, Understanding and Connection with Ultimate Reality.
Brahman
Divine Self
Following Gods
Monist/Dualist
80% of India's Population
Dates Back to 10,000 BCE
