Taoism
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is one of the two great philosophical and religious traditions that originated in
The other religion native to China is Confucianism. Both and Confucianism
about the same time, around the sixth century B.C.E. China's third great religion,
Buddhism,
came to China from India around the second ce ....
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.... tao, to find the way. Tao is the ultimate reality, a
presence
that existed before the universe was formed and which continues to guide the world
and
everything in it. Tao is sometimes identified as the Mother, or the source of all
things. That
source is not a god or a supreme being, as Taoism is not monotheistic. The focus is
not to
worship one god, but instead on coming into harmony with tao (Hartz, 8).
Tao is the essence of everything that is right, and complications exist only b ....
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