"There is a thing, formless yet complete. Before heaven and earth it existed. Without sound, without substance, it stands alone and unchanging. It is all-pervading and unfailing. We do not know its name, but we call it Tao (the way). .. Being one with nature, the sage is in accord with the Tao." (Lao Tzu)
Taoism, Along with Buddhism and Confucianism, are the three great religions / philosophies of Ancient China. In 440 B.C. Taoism was adopted as a state religion of China, with Lao Tzu (so called founder of Taoism) honored as a deity. State support of Taoism ended in 1911 with the end of the Ch'ing Dynasty and much Taoist heritage was destroyed. Tao (pronounced 'Dao' or Tao) can be defined as 'path', or 'road'. The way of the Tao is the way of Nature ;perhaps ultimate reality is becoming one with the universe without the use of your sensory perception ,. Tao is often described as a force that flows through all life(holy spirit if you will ). A happy and virtuous life is one that is in harmony with the Tao. So the philosophy of Taoism understands Tao as the One Thing which exists and contain every thing in it . Tao, Nature, Reality are One. The idea that 'All is One and interconnectedness is not found solely within Chinese Philosophy. Hinduism , the three monotheistic (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), the Greek Philosophers also understood the universe as a unity, as have many other philosophers and scientists over the past 2500 years.
The ancient Chinese worshiped many gods of many kinds, from natural forces to the spirits of ancestors. In the Shang period (1766-1154 B.C.), oracle bones mention a god, Shang-ti, that ruled over all other divinities as well as over human affairs. This deity eventually evolved into the concept of T'ien, or "Heaven," which, as an abstract and impersonal concept, became synonymous with Shang-ti. For the ancient Chinese, Heaven ruled the physical universe through ming, or "destiny," which was beyond human understanding and control, and ruled the moral universe, the universe of human behavior, through T'ien ming, or "The order of Heaven." commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory noun: a document giving an official instruction or command This "Mandate of Heaven" universal law , was based on the idea that Heaven was primarily concerned with the well-being of humans and human society; in order to bring about this well-being, Heaven instituted government and authority. Heaven gave its mandate a document giving an official instruction or command to a family or individual to rule over other human beings with justice and fairness; rulers were to make the welfare of their people their principal concern. When rulers or a dynasty failed to rule in this manner, Heaven would remove its mandate from that ruler and bestow it on another. By Confucius' time, the T'ien Ming had extended to include all human beings and their responsibilities obligations for the people around them and related to them. Each person is responsible for the welfare of those that have been put into their keeping, so that the T'ien Ming functioned at all levels of society. For the ancient Chinese, these two ways in which Heaven governed the cosmosMing , which is order in the physical world and T'ien Ming , which is order in the moral or social worldtogether made up the Tao, or Way of Heaven. No concept is as crucial to understanding the Chinese world view as this concept of the Tao, nor is there any concept which evolved quite as dramatically as this one did. As various Chinese schools developed alternative ways of looking at the world, this concept was adapted to these changed world views The philosophy of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu focused entirely on this concept of the Tao, hence the name of the philosophy they founded: Taoism. For these two foundational Taoists, the Tao becomes the unitary principle and source of all there is, replacing T'ien as the source and governor of the universe.
The Zen Teaching of Huang Po
Huang Po was a Zen master in the ninth century in China who got his name from the mountain where he lived. His teachings, consisting of sermons and dialogs, and koans
If Huang Po's philosophy can be put into words (which he repeatedly says it cannot) it is that man must break through all of his false concepts based on sense perception in order to see his true Self ,and indeed the truth period.
He explains to his students that, "if you students of the Way wish to become Buddha's, you need study no doctrines whatever, but learn only how to avoid seeking for and attaching yourselves to anything.since all these concepts and ideas are not the truth by nature " Not only are doctrines not sufficient but neither are practices; and he say : " our original Buddha nature is, the highest truth, devoid of any objectivity, it is void, omnipresent, silent, pure,; it is glorious mysterious peaceful Joey; and that's all Inter deeply into it, by weakening to it yourself,. That what is before you in all its fullness is utterly complete " Muster huong po
Kabbalah Here is the same thing written in kabalistic manner "The divine essences itself, which has not, and can not have a name. We call his essence or God-in himself by name that is it's self, it is a paradox: "the infinite, blessed be he" when we speak of the infinite blessed be he, we are talking about the utmost of perfection and obstruction, that encompasses everything, and is beyond any possible limits and comprehension .for the infinite is beyond anything that can be grasped- in any term either positive or negative" {The Devin manifestation} by adin steinsaltz
The tree of life Kabbalah ( Reception), Standard Hebrew Qabbala, also written variously as Cabalah Kabala, , Qabala Kabbala, , is a religious philosophical system ,an insight into divine nature. "Kabbalah" is a doctrine of esoteric knowledge confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle concerning God and the universe, asserted to have come down as a revelation to elect saints from a remote past, and preserved only by a privileged few. Kabbalah is considered part of the Jewish Oral Law. It is the traditional mystical understanding of the Torah. Kabbalah stresses the reasons and understanding of the commandments, and the cause of events described in the Torah. Kabbalah includes the understanding of the spiritual spheres in creation, and the rules and ways by which God administers the existence of the universe.
The Zohar (Hebrew "Splendor, radiance briliance") is widely considered the most important work of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. It is a mystical commentary on the Torah (five books of Moses), written in medieval Aramaic and medieval Hebrew. It contains a mystical discussion of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, sin, redemption,.The Zohar is not one book, but a group of books. These books include scriptural interpretations as well as material on theosophic theology, mythical cosmogony, mystical psychology, Rabbi David Mivasair from Ahavat Olam Synagogue points out ; "That is the idea that the Zohar is in fact one book. It is called Sefer ha-Zohar - The Book of Splendor. It consists of many different kinds of material, but it is all composed as one book. Most contemporary scholars believe it was written by one individual person as one integral book."
Zaradeshti The truth according to Zaradeshti, Zoroastrianism, or Mazdaism the most ancient living monotheistic religion that caution you to proceed gently and step by step in search of the truth, then ignorance will lift
Veil after veil it will lift- but there must be veil upon veil behind.
To Venture in the zarathushti philosophy, and ultimately find that one verse that profoundly pointed out to the one truth , that the zarathusttian religion was striving to uphold for approximately 4000 years, would be a definition of the asha-ritathat goes something like this:
God that ever lives and loves One god, one law, one element And one far off divine event (not in distance) To which the whole creation moves.
According to the zarathushti believes that it's Mazda Ahura First created consciousness and knowledge of good (naturin) which is the spirit of truth, spenta manyu a, but when he created the physical, detig, world evil came into being in the form off ignorance, sin, violation of natural order (similar to Mara's daughters in Hinduism, and Buddhism) Zarathushti called the spirit of evil "the lie which later came to be called angera Manyu this struggle between these opposing forces, I found it is the struggle between two perceptions on one hand, the perception or physical world, relative ness, worldly issues, self-centeredness, the limited understanding, nearsightedness, scattered mindedness, in securities, fears [I could keep going on and on so you can see the focal point of these minds or the center, that give rise to these perceptions ]. On the other hand are the perceptions of the lows that give rise to the physical world, the spirit of that manifest itself in physical forms, the infinite, the absolute, the divine. The struggle between these opposing perceptions (forces) which they see the same thing from different perspective, will govern a human life thought activity; that would lead to a set of conducts that is either prosperous happy and successful or insecure doubtful and turbulent The battle between truth and Lie, Mazda Ahura assigned the amahs spenta, (the benevolent spirit) which is an aspect of his own power, its the amesha spent as are sometimes represented as in an angelic being, but in the spiritual sense they are a spark of the divine, that every person the may cultivate within himself or herself if they look inward. This is derived from the Ahuna-vairya The (Ahunavar,) prayer has been hailed as the most fundamental of all prayers of Zoroastrians. That contains three distinct statements in this verse each enunciates a profound eternal truth:
Just as the sovereign Lord, the all-powerful So is the spiritual teacher by reason of his store of asha (the good) The gifts of vohu-mano (good mind) (enlightened mind) Our four works done for the lord of creation And the kashathra (blessing), of Ahura descends, indeed Upon him who becomes a shepherded to the meek
The Biography of The author.rahoomi Page 1 9/16/2007
I was Born In Iraq Baghdad, 1954, from A Muslim father, and according to Islam religion children follow the father's religion, And so I was raised as a Moslem, at the age of ten I found out that my mother Is Jewish, And according To The Jewish laws, Children follow the mother religion, Now According to That I am Jewish Myself.. now we can see the conflict that arise from this dilemma ,With the dual religions, and the choices of being one or another, , Some of this And some of that , Therefore a profound question imposed It's self , which religion is the right one ? Of course I don't have to tell you that the whole Middle East conflict is based on the differences between these two religions,
I was personally torn out between these two historical social political world organizations ,I had to deal, and solve the problem with in first
Conflicts, such a complex issue to resolve,and here is my resolve.
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