The TAO
TAO is joy and irreverence.
The nature of the practice of TAO is joy and irreverence.
The TAO is open to the dark side and metaphysical experience.
Derived from popular culture and is part of a religious tradition that includes trance, mediums and psychic transformation.
Their philosophical side is found in two books published in China in the sixth century BC. The Lao-tz'u or Tao Te Ching which is inspired by the even more ancient Taoist wisdom of I Ching or Book of Changes. And the Zhuang-Tz'u.
The Chinese believed in the existence of an ultimate reality which gave an overall logic to the whole universe. An ultimate reality which was both origin and end of the multiplicity of things and events we observe.
This Logic Set, this unifying principle, called it Tao, the Way, the Way, Meaning, Eternity.
In the Tao Te Ching says that the Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. That is, as practical as good Taoists, is to become ourselves in TAO.
And how to do, is to find harmony within us, the middle, just point, ZHONG, halfway between opposites, between the opposing tendencies that are so clear, often painfully, in our lives.
If we feel and believe that the TAO is the unifying principle, the Ultimate Reality origin and end of all things, so easily accept that there is a final drive of all the contrasts and, especially, the unity of opposites to which we referred ago a moment.
Opposites are abstract concepts belonging to the realm of thought and, as such, are relative. Therefore, by simply focusing our attention on any concept, we create its opposite. So just realizing that yMal Well, Pleasure and Pain, Life and Death are not absolute experiences belonging to different categories but the end portions of a single unit.
The vision of the Whole, the TAO, is that "vision" rather than perception.
"Vision" through dreams, symbols, images and metaphors, while allowing us to feel that our sense experience provides us with tools to communicate that sense.
Because ... how we can communicate a sense if not a symbol, an image or a metaphor?
Symbols allow us to experience the spirit through what is known as token participation.
And by the symbolization of our problems, we bought a Shen, a very potent and powerful spirit, a personality higher.
Primitive people were operating under the "Vision" by symbols, images and metaphors. We call synchronistic vision.
The Eastern world has long maintained.
The Western world very soon abandoned this "Vision" and prioritized an understanding of the universe understood as the sum of its parts.
This fragmentation broke the magic.
We ourselves who we autodespojamos the breath of life by creating a complete separation between matter and spirit, between us and the universe.
The second view is called causal or cause-effect.
In a vision we ignore Causal mediumship and synchronicities, meaningful coincidences that connect with the Universe.
Confucius created the Yin and Yang symbols so we could connect on a sensory level, the multiplicity of the material world with the single origin or TAO.
And the I Ching Confucius gave its present form the 64 hexagrams.
The I Ching is mediumistic most powerful tool available today. It is a Holy Book which is said to contain a secret code that awakens human consciousness.
Born in China during the Bronze Age period even "dominated" by spirits and shamans and an integrated view of the world, and finished "distilled" 8 centuries later when it was still common and normal synchronistic vision of reality.
Its 64 symbols are a "duplicate" of the TAO and the interaction between us and them that occurs in a query is generated Shen and, eventually, a change occurs.
The I Ching attract synchronicities guide our lives necessary for us to realize the change we need to meet our essence and feel