Taoism, an ancient school of thought, can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Taoism discusses the relationship between nature, society and life with Tao. Taoism advocates that Taoism is natural, governing by doing nothing and living in harmony with nature. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Ji Xiaolan, a famous scholar who edited Sikuquanshu, made an eight-word evaluation of Taoism: "comprehensive and profound."
In other words, the cultural thought of Taoism contains the whole culture of China for five thousand years. "Wide" is all-encompassing, and "fine" is the realm of exquisiteness and delicacy. Among them, "people practice the ground, practice the sky slowly, practice the Tao in the sky, and the Tao is natural." Being in the Tao Te Ching has a profound influence. It means "Tao" is "nature".
"People are everywhere, the land follows the sky, the sky follows the road, and the road follows nature." Laozi brilliantly contained and expounded the deep laws of heaven, earth, man and even the whole universe with thimble grammar. "Tao, law and nature" reveals the characteristics of the whole universe, including the fundamental attributes of everything in the world, and everything in the universe follows the law of "nature".
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"Taoism is natural" is an important thought of Laozi's philosophy. The topic of "Taoism is natural" is not an isolated topic. It is related to the fundamental problem of Laozi's metaphysics-the relationship between "Tao" and "everything", and also to the core problem of Laozi's political philosophy-the relationship between "sage king" and "people".
This topic itself directly involves one of the most important concepts in Laozi's philosophy, "Tao" and another important concept, "Nature". Modern people read Laozi, thinking that nature is the essence of natural science, but ancient Chinese did not read it this way. Now natural science borrows Laozi's thoughts.
The word "nature" is not necessarily a combination noun. The Taoist words "self" and "nature" mean that they are of course their own. Stop asking questions. Just like religion says. Don't ask who God made, and faith will be saved. Don't ask, if you ask again, you will never finish asking. The so-called nature is not blind, and it is very regular, and one step cannot be violated.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Taoist Nature