RELI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tao Yin, Yang Yin, Ideogram
8 Mar 2017
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* the man of humanity delights in mountains and is tranquil. Nobility: mountains stand out and are clear for all to see, * a profound person is all of these concepts, ex. Taoism: nature is the profit and guide, complete opposite of confucianism. Its movement is based upon transcendence of nature. Includes / encompasses our total reality: duality in everything, tao= yin and yang, yin is soft, yang is hard. You poi(cid:374)t to a (cid:272)at"s food: the cat follows your finger and misses the message of its food, do(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e like the (cid:272)at (cid:862)the sage e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:449)ithout a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:863, no abstractions, all things have tao. Wu wei: * actionless action, to do without doing, ex. A leaf falling from a tree and getting carried down a stream. It"s do(cid:374)e e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g it"s supposed to do: * acceptation of the natural flow of things, every disharmony is sin.
