Ep. 34 –Confucianism vs. Taoism
Alan Watts Being in the Way
Be Here Now Network / Love Serve Remember Foundation
4.9 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Breaking free from cause-and-effect and the formal ideas of Confucianism, Alan Watts describes mutual arising as the key idea of the Tao.
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This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts describes:
- Chinese philosophies of Taoism and Confucianism
- Our roles in social life and Confucianism as the way for people involved in the world
- Taoism as the way for those who do not prescribe to formal patterns
- How the Taoist goes with nature rather than against nature
- Ideologies of God as a ruler or a lord versus the Taoist perspective
- Experiences in terms of their polar experience (loud vs. soft)
- Mutual arising as they key idea of the Tao
- Man as being within nature rather than dominating it
- How Taoism gets rid of karma without challenging it
- The Chinese philosophy of time
- Sensing the flow of the present and flow of the Tao
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| 1:42.3 | And I'm your host, Mark Watts. And today we're going to revisit one of our earliest podcasts and sample Taoist way of dropping out from karma which is one of the first talks on Taoism that we ever released and then we're going to compliment that with one of the most recent talks on Taoism. It's called Wisdom of the Water Course. And these two |
| 2:03.0 | talks complement each other beautifully. I think you'll enjoy the flow. And we're going to start |
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