![]() Water wears down or goes around blockages. Water flows but does not force its way through obstacles. Sometimes referred to as “The Watercourse Way” Taoism uses the characteristics of water as a metaphor to living. At its core, Taoism teaches us to respect ourselves and others while avoiding striving against the forces in life that are beyond our control. Taoism is a wonderful collection of wisdom respecting the way one might live their life in a way that produces good for self and others and avoids stress and strife. I moved on from Taoism because it could not take me to where I wanted and needed to go. In short, I did not stop at Taoism because I found it wrong or that it was leading me to a bad place in my life. After all, coming to some understanding of truth is what we are all hopefully about. My entire hope in writing this is to explain a part of my experience of seeking the truth. I am not writing this paper to contribute to any “Christianity vs. This writing is an attempt to share why I did not conclude my spiritual search with this enduring eastern approach to life. My search for spiritual truth came through Taoism but did not end there. Unlike the better known Confucius whose work concerned day-to-day living, the Tao is a more spiritually oriented look at life. The philosophy that Lao Tsu set down near the end of his life contained, in its essence, roughly 5,000 words in 81 “chapters”. Lao Tsu was an older contemporary of Confucius and like Confucius, was an imperial Chinese government functionary. ![]() The ancient life philosophy of the Tao comes down from the sixth century BC Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu. My particular journey to Christianity ran through the eastern religions and philosophies and principally through Taoism.
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