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what does /lit/ thing of taoism? is it based or cringe?

>> No.13674517

it’s crased and bledpilled

>> No.13674535

Read about it yourself and make up your own mind, you sperg.

>> No.13674544
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>>13674513
It's neither cringe or based

>> No.13674593

>>13674544
It's true, the way which is cringe is not the true way, and the way which is based is not the true way either.

>> No.13674601

>>13674544
(Un)based and waypilled

>> No.13674700
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Zhuangzi is based

>> No.13674707

>>13674700
In your dreams.

>> No.13674723

chinks will never accept that you can understand the tao, btw.

>> No.13674731

>>13674723
That's fine because 90% of them can't understand how to not be bugmen.

>> No.13674745

>>13674723
i thought the tao was not supposed to be understandable

>> No.13674749

>>13674700
>Zhuangzi
Great lad and actually a great read.
Tao te Ching is on its own pretty inaccessible for the modern non Chinese reader.
Zhuangzi on the other hand has some really interesting parables that read entertaining and engaging.

>>13674707
More like the butterflys dream.

>> No.13674773

Love the I Ching . It's a great way to make decisions

>> No.13674782

>>13674513
Ching Chong Ding Dong

>> No.13674831

Are there any interesting takes on Taoism besides the old masters that I should read?

>> No.13674841

I Ching has nothing to do with Taoism. What a stupid and ignorant photo

>> No.13674863

I used an ancient fortune telling book from china and it’s divinations speaking of future failure and misfortune made me feel dreadful and anxiety-ridden.
Not to mention that none of it came true.

>> No.13674875

>>13674831
WHITEHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.13674885

>>13674841
>nothing
Wrong. Divinational Taoism uses the I Ching.

>> No.13674900
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>>13674513
Incomprehensible mess of a philosophy. Somehow they mix Parmenides and Heraclitus and hide the paradox behind mysticism. Might be the most miserably servile way to live outside of Cynicism, which at least is consistent in its worldview.
That said the poetry is pretty.

>> No.13674904

>>13674875
I read that in Bertrand Russell's voice.

>> No.13675193

>>13674831
Jean Cooper, Ellen Chen
>>13674841
If you want to get into reading more esoteric Taoist texts, the I Ching becomes very important.

>> No.13675377

>>13674731
When you meet one of them they will agree but say some 1000 chinese have attained the tao, but non chinks will always fail. They are as skeptical of chinks as of westerners tbqh but westerners never can achieve it.
>>13674749
why is the tao te king unachievable to non cchink moderns

>> No.13675958

b

>> No.13676015

>>13674513
It is good. The Chuang Tzu and Tao Te Ching are essential reading.