What is tao? 2. what is jiao? 3. who are the eight immortals? 4. what are the wade-giles system and the pinyin system? how are they different? 5. what are yin and yang? critical thinking questions 1. choose one other religion and compare and contrast the religion to taoism. what are the differences between taoism and the religion you chose? what are the similarities? 2. what is the controversy over the use of the terms taoism or daoism? 3. laozi wrote in the tao te ching, "the wise are guided by their belly rather than their eyes". what did he mean by this? how does the quote fit in with taoist thought? 4. what is the jiao ritual? what functions might this ritual have for individuals and society? 5. what factors influenced the development of religious taoism?

1.What is Tao?

Tao refers to the way of nature, with constant change demonstrating a greater force.

In its higher significance, Tao alludes to the method for the universe, the way things are. As a spiritual framework, Tao implies the best approach to accomplishing a genuine comprehension of the idea of psyche and reality, to the method for living in amicability with the progressions of Nature. In this manner the Tao is the objective, the way and the adventure across the board.

2.What is jiao?

  A ritual that involves offering food and wine at the altar in a family's home. The term jiao signifies "offering" or "sacrifice." It alludes, in the present day, to the vast scale Taoist functions sorted out by neighborhood networks, and by other social gatherings, for example, proficient organizations and different types of willful religious relationship, keeping in mind the end goal to characterize themselves on the religious level, and particularly to set up or affirm the (semicontractual) connection between the gathering and its tutelary divinity.  

3.Who are the Eight Immortals?

     He Xian Gu, Cao Guo Jiu, Taiguai Li, Lan Caihe, Lu Dongbin, Han Xiang Zi, Zhang Guo Lao, Zhongli Quan
These eight gods are believed to be able to fly, disappear, and use magic. They are thought to help individuals with things like illnesses, money issues, and desires for long life.


  4.What are the Wade-Giles system and the Pinyin system? How are they different?  

The Wade-Giles framework and the Pinyin framework are distinctive frameworks of the saying of words in Mandarin Chinese. The Wade-Giles framework has been the most generally utilized translation arrangement of Mandarin Chinese during that time while the Pinyin framework was received by the Chinese government in the 1970s as the framework that most firmly coordinated the elocution of Mandarin Chinese.  

5.What are yin and yang?

 Yin and Yang are two contrary or opposite forces that are interconnected. They occur only in relation to each other. If we look at the Chinese theory, yin and yang portrays how apparently inverse or opposite powers may really be correlative, interconnected, and associated in the common world, and how they may offer ascent to each different as they interrelate to each other.      

   critical thinking questions

1.Choose one other religion and compare and contrast the religion to Taoism. What are the differences between Taoism and the religion you chose? What are the similarities?  

In Christianity they don't trust in dualism, yet in Taoism they trust that there are great and malevolence or evil components attempting to keep an adjust against each other. Both Christianity and Taoism depend on lessons from a sacred text.    

2.What is the controversy over the use of the terms Taoism or Daoism?  

Taoism is used more by Americans while Daoism is more used in China. Daoism/Taoism speaks to a school of thought that created over a time of 200-300 years. The word Dao/Tao in Chinese means the Way. Daoism is a logic about the best possible way throughout everyday life.  

3.Laozi wrote in the Tao Te Ching, "The Wise are guided by their belly rather than their eyes". What did he mean by this? How does the quote fit in with Taoist thought?  

I think he implied that the individuals who take just what they require as opposed to what they need are more astute. This statement fits in with Taoist musings since Taoists just take what is important to attempt to comprehend Tao.  

4.What is the jiao ritual? What functions might this ritual have for individuals and society?  

The jiao ritual refers to the offering of nourishment or potentially wine for precursors. This ritual can bring individuals together by giving them celebrations that can unite them.

  5.What factors influenced the development of religious Taoism?  

The factors that influenced the development of religious Taoism is that religious Taoism was impacted by the conviction that the universe is an outflow of Tao, and that the different powers of nature inside this expression are spirits or divinities.

1.  go out into nature and commune with the divine2.  experience real solitude to truly perceive nature3.  realize that individuals are meant to learn from nature and transcend it4.  think of nature as a symbol of the divine