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The best definition of Taoism proceeds from Alan Watts pen. We quote some phrases, too:
As we can see, Taoism is a way of life inspired from the rhythms of the natural world. But how could a human way of life draw its inspiration from nature?
The best example is offered by martial arts which borrowed the essential elements - attack, defense, slipping away - from the corresponding movements of the wild animals. So we have schools of martial
arts that wear picturesque names as "school of tiger", "school of monkey", etc.
The main sources of Taoism are the classical works of the Taoists Masters such as: ^
Certain Chinese philosophers writing in, perhaps, the -5th and -4th
centuries, explained ideas and a way of life that have come to be known as Taoism - the way of man's cooperation with the course or trend of the natural world, whose
principles we discover in the flow patterns of water, gas, an fire, which are subsequently memorialized or sculptured in those of stone and wood, and, later, in many forms of human art. (From Tao: The Watercourse Way
, Pantheon Books, 1975, xiv)
What is taoism
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Taoism Resources
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