Trey Smith
For those of you out there with young children or grandchildren, one of the time-honored rituals on Christmas Eve is to read Twas the Night Before Christmas. While I certainly enjoy some traditions and I readily can understand how others might as well, if some of you tire of doing the same shtick year after year after year, why not start a new tradition?
One of the main scribes on this blog -- Scott Bradley -- has written three lovely stories that utilize a Taoist theme. Each could serve as a fine introduction to the young ones of Taoist ideas. (If you don't have any young children at hand and you don't have much planned for the Christmas weekend, you might enjoy these three tales too!)
One of the main scribes on this blog -- Scott Bradley -- has written three lovely stories that utilize a Taoist theme. Each could serve as a fine introduction to the young ones of Taoist ideas. (If you don't have any young children at hand and you don't have much planned for the Christmas weekend, you might enjoy these three tales too!)
Also an interesting post by Elisabeth Renninger which draws parallels between the Taoist search for immortality and the gospel stories..."There in the cauldron-manger of your lower dantian, shepherded by the Three Treasures, guided by the light of the pineal gland -- a most miraculous
ReplyDeletevirgin birth ...:
http://taoism.about.com/od/immortality/a/Immortality.htm
Unless of course, you regard all this as religious Taoism.
Apologies..Elizabeth Reninger...
ReplyDeleteWhat does an atheist do on Christmas? Do you do nothing? or do you give and receive gifts and volunteer at a soup kitchen or something?
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ReplyDeleteYes, i would regard that as the religious form.
KW,
Tomorrow will be a typical Sunday for me. Nothing special. If we had a soup kitchen, I might consider volunteering, but out here in the boondocks we don't have anything like that.
Thank you for making you position clear, though I do not agree with it.
ReplyDeleteReligious Taoism generally has to do with worship of deities. Not sure that the self-cultivation in internal alchemy is religious.
Unless of course you regard anything that has "spiritual" aspirations as religious. Which I guess you do.
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