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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of Taoism, focusing on chapter XI from the Tao Te Ching. A personal photograph is presented to further explain the subject material. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Other Side of the Door: A Look at
Taoist Poetry , 9/2010 --properly! The Tao Te Ching is an ancient collection of philosophical principles presented in a poetic fashion.
It has been maintained and circulated since the days of ancient China, and has exacted a critical influence on the cultural development of that country. For instance, philosophical Taoism is
central to much contemporary Chinese religion. This is true not just for Taoism and Confucianism, which directly draw upon the Tao Te Ching, but also of Chinese Buddhism, which, upon
being culturally received from India, underwent a localized reinterpretation through the lens of Taoism. In this paper, Ill attempt to analyze and explicate a particular passage from the Tao Te
Ching with the assistance of a photographic aid that expresses the qualities of the Tao. The Tao (or, "the Way") as stated by
the text itself, cannot be named or quantified, and any "Way" that can in fact be named or quantified is not the singular Way (Mitchell 1995). This quality is, in
a manner of speaking, indicative of the character of the Tao Te Ching as a whole: it often presents truth in the form of an apparent contradiction. Nowhere is this
more apparent than in the eleventh chapter of the book, which Ive chosen to present and analyze here: We join spokes together
in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever
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