>>24624107>They're following the TaoThe Tao seems weird today.
>Is this like eastern egoism?Its the eastern version of the flow of life. A better comparison would be to Schopenhauers Will. But with harmony,
Here Alan Watts tries to explain it:
>The Tao is most certainly the ultimate reality and energy of the universe, the Ground of being and nonbeing. The Tao does nothing, but nothing is left undone. The Tao is the course, the flow, the drift, or the process of nature. The problem with explaining it (Alan Watts again):
>Tao cannot be defined in words and is not an idea or concept. "It may be attained but not seen, " (Chuang-tzu), or, in other words, felt but not conceived, intuited but not categorized, divined but not explained. >some booksThe Tao Te Ching from Lao-Tzu is the original and basic text about Taoism.
Zhuanzi from Zhuang Zhou is the second basic text of Taoism. Haven't read that one yet. But I definitely plan to.
Alan Watts would be a decent starter. Pretty easy to read and gives you the rough idea. He had a pretty huge influence on all them hippies back then.
Them Eastern niggas seem to have the antidote for the pessimism shit the West has produced.