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Traditional Chinese Culture - Coggle Diagram
Traditional Chinese Culture
Buddhism
Taught in school
Soul need to liberate from samsara ( cycle of birth and rebirth
Meditation
Concentration
Buddha = enlighten one
Siddharta gautama - Prince wanted to escape luxury, realised that suffering is inevitable ( if soul does not cease to exist)
Buddhist ideal liberating soul, get enlightened:
Life is suffering ( aging, sickness, death)
Karma - attachment of soul
Can be cured!
Cure is nirvana. Final extinction of self
Daoism
Popular in HK
Lao-Zi
Wrote: Dao De Jing/Tao Te Ching/Classic of the Way and its Power
Main question: How can we let nature prevail?
There is a natural order, "dao" (the way) is eternal and cannot be created by people. However, it is something people can (and should) create space for
cannot be described in words, language is limited
Language is a subjective human truth, it is a source of division, conflict and opinion. Absence of language is the natural state; and most unifying
Bias against language
by creating categories, opposites, differences we limit ourselves
align with natural order
We should not tell people what to do
Dao/the Way is the underlying dynamic of the universe
(Fengshui ) we shall not use nature but respect it
Story of the guard
Everything has use if we let it, if we can change perspective. We should let nature guide us
Confucianism
Duty in social hierarchy
Li (rites)= expressing one's position in society
Virtue (De) = understood as power
individuals have special duties based on their position
Ancestors
filial piety= duty and respect
Main question: How can rulers enforce social order?
Going against immense interest
Kong-Zi
European missionaries named him Confucius
way of the ancient kings
Traditional texts
Lau, D.C. (transl.), Analects (Lunyu), pp. 59-71
Lau, D.C. (transl.), Dao De Jing, II-VII
Chap 2:
The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly; the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad.
thus something and nothing produce each other. Therefore the sage keeps to the deed that consists in taking no action and the high and low incline towards each other. Note and sound harmonize with each other.
Opposites create each other. By comparing with the Beaty the ugly is created. Words create differences, issues, conflict. If we simply let them excise, they can harmonise. ( again we should follow nature, not control it)
Chap 19
Mair, Victor (tr.), Wandering on the Way [Zhuang Zi]
“The Legend of Miaoshan.” In Glen Dudbridge
Owen, “From The Romance of the Gods