>Easiest shit in the world to understand >Westoids continuously "don't get it" and as a result, seethe and cope about it constantly You're a fucking retard if you don't understand this book.
>>24762901I dont care about this
>>24762905Nobody asked (You)
>>24762901The chink mind works in mysterious ways. They are very good in sciences and mathematics but somehow they canāt translate that rigorous logic into their philosophical books, which is why they are all laughed at as jokes.For example, Lao Tzu praises non action as the principle by which people should live by, yet by writing this book he is already violating his own teachings. Imagine Jesus as a fat pig and corrupt governor of Judea preaching to his illiterate and ignorant ministry the virtues of poverty.
>>24762910You did.
>>24762901It's not even a hard book to understand, it's what you'd give a 7th grader who expressed interest in philosophy.
>>24762917OP didn't ask a question. He made a statement.
>>24762921You dont get it.
>>24762914>Lao Tzu praises non action In that context wu-wei means "effortless action." You're the exact kind of retard OP complains about.
A literal translation >The trail that can be tread>is not the timeless trail.>The name that can be named>is not the timeless name>Unnamed, heaven >and earth he begins;>named, ten-thousand things>she mothers.
>>24763012You didnāt read the book. Every scholar disagrees with you.
>>24762901It's easy to understand, but there are a myriad different understandings. Read pic related.
>>24763045He's right. Taoism doesn't advocate sitting on your arse smoking opium. It's about acting when the conditions are favourable.A ship that waits for the tide is practising wei wu wei, because it can leave harbour with the least effort.
>>24762901It has the meaning I want it to give
>>24763037In ancient times people thought stuff like this was extremely profound.
>>24763073Because it is.
>>24763068That is called seamanship, and itās a science not a religious practice. You are insufferable pseuds high on your opium farts.
>>24762901Slave morality gobbledygook. Ancient Chinky version of modern pop stoicism with some chapters thrown in to try and bring a ruler down to slave level thinking
>>24763117>Said the christfag
>>24763108>he thinks Taoism is a religionIt's the most practical of all philosophies, dumbass.
>>24763165>Taoism or Daoism (/ĖtaŹ.JzÉm/ , /ĖdaŹ.JzÉm/ ) is a philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to ChinaItās quite literally described here as religious, and there is nothing practical about it. Calculating the optimal timing of launching ships in accordance with the tides and weather conditions is a science. You donāt know history, and you certainly donāt understand the relationship between Taoism, the state, the labor pool, or the aristocracy. Then again, I suppose itās par for the course for a cultist.
>>24763186>Calculating the optimal timing of launching ships in accordance with the tides and weather conditions is a science.>he thinks Taosim isn't scientificLiteral square-one mouth-breathing retard.
>>24763202You have it backwards: science is what makes the ships launch optimally. Taoism is like a flag, as meaningless and useless as the Union Jack- a unified veil under which labor could be organized and kept docile
>>24763165>He doesn't know about the religious aspect of Daoismlol, lmao. Full of gods and esoteric practices, Laotzu was defied by the 2nd century AD.You have absolutely no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
>>24762901>WestoidThird worldist equivalent of "honky"
>>24763403At least he had the decency not to say he understood it.
>>24762901The Tao Te Ching is the ultimate filter. It doesn't filter by IQ, or by education, or by philosophical knowledge, or even by any particular belief or set of beliefs, but if you don't get it you lack the ability to be present in the consumption of literature. The Tao Te Ching is genuinely fun to read if you are willing to engage with it actively, its haters are the equivalent of people who listen to a song just to hear the chorus. The great danger is that it requires such careful reading, to use another music example, many people read ragtime or boogiewoogie into Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 because of later developments upon the foundation it laid(or in this case the developments of Western philosophy in ontology and teleology), when it is even greater when understood in its proper framing
>>24763214Retards will worship anything from planets to anceint trees. The Tao Te Ching is not a religious tract, it's a handbook for sages and statesmen.>>24763212>AnonymousHow fitting. The retard that can be named is not the true retard.
>>24763607>anonymousThat would be the collective authors of the TTC across 5 centuries. You still seem to have a fundamental confusion that I will help you clear up: military engineering and science is what gets the ships off the docks properly, not your little religious marvel quips
I am the only daoist in this entire board and seeing westoids monkey scratching each other while screaming is peak entertaiment. >>24763476 gets it. also, AMA.
>>24762914It's not that mysterious. We are just retards. >destroy a country>they later fuck with you>Why are they doing this?>they are so mysterious and exotic
>>24763186>>24762901Daoism has religious AND philosophical aspects which may or may not be the equivalent of a contemporary pragmatic pov. Science without basic philisophical premises is non-existent, let alone ideological elements.
>>24763037>"metaphysics and language mark the end of our cognition" intuited ~2400 yeara ago
>>24762914from a utilitarian pov, writing the Tao Te Ching created more non-action in the world than would've otherwise occured had he not acted at all
>>24762914woah the tension between following the Dao and educating people about the Dao is like... logically inconsistent! I am very smart and this is not something people have recognized for 2 millennia
>>24764437The sad thing is that we live in the information age, yet people can't be bothered to spend the 5 minutes required to find someone else's explanation of how to solve that tension.
You might think you get it, but you don't, and are in fact ignorant of your own ignorance.
>>24765121Ok Socrates, but you like you touch kids, so...
You say you understand it. Therefore you do not understand it.
>>24762914Lao Tzu didn't praise non-action. What the fuck are you talking about?
>>24762914Retard faggot.
The Dao is so straightforward raw wisdom in itself that some uncle and aunt's sons here are just genetically disabled to get it.
>>24762914Camus literally did the same what are you talking about
>>24763614The tides are the plainest possible illustration of how the Tao works: the Yin of the ebb and the Yang of the flow.But it's not plain enough for some, apparently. Congratulations on getting filtered by one of the simplest ideas ever conceived. You're just the kind of retard OP was talking about.
This chink samefag has no arguments in the face of historical fact and science kek he can only call people retards
>>24762901Bao Be Ling
āResistance is futileā Lao Tzu
