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Where is Taoism from?
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China
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What is the main concerns of Taoism?
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Ineffable powers within nature. It is subjective, intuitive, and mystical.
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What is their idea of an afterlife?
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They have none, they deal with the natural law more than a supreme being.
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What is filial piety?
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Respect for parents and grandparents, and worship of dead family members
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What is the yang force associated with?
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positivity, masculinity, paternity, intellect, light, warmth, heaven, strength, and life.
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What is the yin force associated with?
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negativity, femininity, intuition, darkness, coolness, earth, weakness, and death.
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What is Wu-hsing?
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The theory that the five elements: fire, earth, metal, water, and wood that constitute reality and change.
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What is the Su Ching?
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Book of History
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What is the I Ching?
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Book of Changes - reading of the patterns to predict events
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What is Wu-wei?
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a plan of action for human beings
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What is the name of the founder?
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Lao Tzu "Old Boy"
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What is the most important Taoist text?
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Tao Te Ching, The book of the Way and Its Power
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What are the two types of Taoism?
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Philosophical and religious
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What are the main concepts that the philosophical Taoism deal with?
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The continuing flow of the inherent impersonal Tao, regularity in nature, cyclical proccess, growth and decline, and bipolarity of yin and yang.
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What is the Tao of philoposphy?
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The Way, correlative opposites of Yin and Yang - infuses the universe with life and moving with flow of nature
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What is Wu-wei of philosophy?
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Submission to the natural order of things. "non-action" so that all is accomplished. One must give up the world in order to posess it.
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What are the ethics of the Tao?
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Live in harmony with that which gives ultimate order and ultimate ethics to the universe.
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What is the symbol of Tao?
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Water
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What are the two main goals of Religious Taoism?
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Happiness and physical immortality.
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What are the motivations of Divination for Religious Taoism?
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1. Understand the supernatural so that ones life can be in harmony
2. Serve dead ancestors |
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How doea a Religious Taoist perform an exorcism?
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Fire or loud noises
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How was immortality sought?
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Ko Hung (leader) through herbs and pills. Hsien (immortal) lived on island called P'eng-lai.
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How many gods are there in the body and the heavens?
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Thirty-six
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What is the hygiene school? (Religious)
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vitality of the physical body to appease the gods in the body (breathing, excerciese, diet)
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What are the Fields of Cinnabar?
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Located in the head, the chest, and abdomen
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What foods do they not eat?
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Meat or wine
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Other than health, what is another part of the Religious?
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Kindness
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For women, what is the theory and what is the practice?
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Theory: completley equal.
Practice: patriarchical but can do some participation |
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How many Taoists are there today?
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60-70 million
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Who is Chuang Tzu?
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Lao Tuzu's disciple, interpreter of the Tao Te Ching
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What is Kuei?
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Bad and unpredictable spirits
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What is Shen?
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Beneficial spirits, associated with sun and spring, protect from Kuei
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What is Tao Chia?
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Philosophical Taoism
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