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Bone and Soul
03-23-2007, 10:21 AM
As I've Said In a few of my posts before I'm a Taoist and I wanted to know, are there any other members that have a religious philosophy from the Orient? Buddhists? Hindu? Shinto? other Taoists? please let me know :(

UNODRAGONE
03-23-2007, 11:16 AM
As I've Said In a few of my posts before I'm a Taoist and I wanted to know, are there any other members that have a religious philosophy from the Orient? Buddhists? Hindu? Shinto? other Taoists? please let me know :(
I use dabble in Taoism I've read the book by Lao Tzo (think that is how it is spelled) and I believe in a lot of the philosophies and teachings of all in the one, one of my favorite poems is a Taoist poem:

Into a soul absolutely free, from thoughts and emotions even the tiger finds no room to insert it's fierce claws. One and the same breeze passes, over the pines on the mountain, and the oak trees in the valley: And why do they give different notes? No thinking, no reflecting perfect emptiness; yet therein something moves following it's own course. The eye see's it, but no hands can take hold of it, the moon in the stream, clouds and mist, they are midair transformations: Above them eternally shine the sun and the moon. Victory is for the one, even before the combat, who has no thought of himself abiding in the no-mindness of great origin."

I was raised Catholic but I really don't follow it and Taoism has always interested me.