Discuss the significance and value of Taoist thought to real life?

1, Taoist philosophy has influenced the development of ancient philosophy in China. In the history of China, Taoist philosophy was sometimes transformed and inherited by some important figures of unofficial Confucianism, such as Yang Xiong, Huan Tan and Wang Chong in the Han Dynasty. Taoist philosophy has also deeply influenced the development of China's two major religious philosophies-Taoism and Buddhism.

Taoism respects Laozi as an old gentleman, takes the Tao Te Ching as the basic classic of Taoism, takes Zhuangzi as the true classic of Nanzong, and demonstrates the immortal way of Taoism with the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, thus establishing the religious philosophy system of Taoism. Buddhism Prajnaparamita in Jin Dynasty is the product of the combination of metaphysics and Buddhism.

2. On the one hand, Taoism Huang Lao Xue inherited Taoism's inaction politics and put forward the idea that the monarch does nothing and the minister does something. He believes that "quietness is determined by the people", and the monarch can master the political essentials of governing the country without too much interference; It advocates "storing harsh things, collecting thin taxes, and not taking the time of the people" to let the people recuperate.

The inaction of Huang Lao's learning is the combination of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Mohism, Ming and Yin and Yang, the combination of inaction and promising, and the study of the world. It has a positive and enterprising spirit in politics, and to a certain extent, it overcomes the negative and inaction thoughts of Laozi and Zhuangzi.

3. It is generally believed that one of the characteristics of Taoist thought is to achieve eternal perfection through various practices, "thus establishing the theory of TCM health preservation"; Gunpowder was invented by an alchemist, and the four great inventions in China are all related to Taoism.

The "Tao" advocated by Taoism refers to the nature of everything in the world and the law of its natural cycle. Everything in nature is in constant motion and change, and Tao is its basic law. This is a concrete exposition of Tao. Therefore, people's life activities conform to the laws of nature and can make people live longer.

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Tao is an important category of China's ancient philosophy, which is used to explain the origin, noumenon, laws or principles of the world. In the history of China's philosophy, the category of "Tao" was first put forward by Taoism. The original meaning of Tao refers to the road and the smooth road, and later it gradually developed into a truth to express the regularity of things. This change has gone through a long historical process.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi first regarded Taoism as the origin and universal law of the universe and became the founder of Taoism. Since then, although its meaning is different in different philosophical systems, it has basically become synonymous with world origin, ontology, law or principle.

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