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Dawn Skorczewski's Pursuing Happiness: Taoism In China

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Taoism
In first chapter of Pursuing Happiness, editors of Matthew Parfitt and Dawn Skorczewski, I stumble across the first reading about a religion of China and it was quiet interesting. The material was translated from the book of The Tao Te Ching by a translator name Stephen Mitchell. Within the entire stories I got thinking of how Taoism was related with the stories provided in the book and how it affected the Chinese culture. The studies I choose to discuss is Taoism, a brief origin history, and the beliefs of the religion.
Taoism (or the Daoism) is a religious and philosophical tradition of the Chinese formed around 3rd or 4th centuries B.C.E. They indicate living in harmony with nature, humanity and the divine emphasized. The Tao means “the way”, “the path” or “the way things are”, and can be found in other Chinese philosophies and religion. Everything about Taoism comes from The Tao Te Ching written by Laozi (or Lao Tzu) and father of Taoism. The book explains what to know about the Tao, how the Taoist disciple’s should follow the Tao, and which is his/her main …show more content…
All these text are relating to each other explaining that the nature and the belief of humans are innately been “good”. There are no “bad people” in the text of Taoist principles, only people that are behaving badly. Given the proper education and understanding, the guidance of how the universe works, therefore anyone can be a “good person” just living in harmony on earth and with each other. According to the beliefs, the best way to live is accepting what life brings you. A person adapts to the changes to life easy, then the person will be happy; if the person resists the changes, the person will become unhappy. The ultimate goal is to live in peace in the way of the Tao and to recognize everything that life happens should be accept as part of your eternal

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