![]() ![]() Yang is associated with lightness, energy, activity, clarity, the sun, or youth.īut neither Yin nor Yang are superior in any way. Yin is associated with darkness, femininity, mystery, passivity, the night sky, or the old. This is not to say that there are not other paths (such as the “human way”), but why struggle through thorns and thickets when life could be happy and easy? Daodejing is a dense wonder of proverbs, advice, wisdom, and fables to guide the Daoist in finding this path. If your life is a forest, the Dao is the wide, paved, and easy path. It is to adapt, compromise, and take life as it comes, not as you want to force it. This is to let the self mold to the world, like the way water fills a cup. To row against the current is hard, and Daoism is the simple call to “go with the flow” of the universe.ĭaoism is to find the harmony in life. To be happy is to let the Dao carry us on. Like a river, the Dao moves and directs all things, and we are like boats floating along its path. The Dao translates as “The Way” and is often compared to the flow of a river. ![]() But what matters is Lao Tzu’s influence, not least for the 20 million Daoists worldwide. His name means “Old Master,” and it is unclear if he was a single historical person or a title given to a collection of sages and their works. Lao Tzu is the semi-mythical founder of Daoism (or Taoism - the sound is halfway between a T and a D to the non-Chinese ear). ![]()
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