Chinese Tradition Religion (R.S.F.102) 2010

As to the Taoism religion, Lao-tze is the first one who founded the Taoism which its meaning is old man or old master. For its really meaning, Old here did not to say old and age but just only matured in knowledge. As religious leaders say the biography of Lao-tze described some miraculous event in his time. Regarding to it, one legend say that he was in him mother womb in 82 years and he was born in as a man and with the bear and wrinkled face. He was given the name as Lao-tez for he was the matured in knowledge at the born.

As spread of his opinion, while it accept that lao-tez left from china to the west place. Some also say that he left to western paradise which is called Sukhawati. When he however was leaving the border of China, custom officers asked him to declare his purpose and ask him to left his message. Before his departure, thus, he stayed for three days in the border and written down, his message in precise form in China. This precise declared is named as Tao De Jing, which was a text of Taoism including with 81 chapters.

In his text the first 37 chapters are on Tao, whereas 38-81 are om De. While the Tao means “way” the De also means “Morality”. After combination those two words. The cannon is named as “the way and morality” Even 5250 words have in this cannon, but it is counted as only five thousand words. Some pinioned that Tao De Jing is not the philosophy of Lao-tze alone but also the views of many Chinese philosopher who lived prior to him. However there is no proper evidence to prove the point. So Tao De Jing is one of the high esteemed composition in china and its teaching has been immensely influenced to enrich Chinese culture too.

In his text, it said that Tao is the essence of evening of evening and it is like a seed that hidden the possibility of a plant as same as a mother delivers a child. Tao evolves everything in the Universe and it is just an ultimate reality named Nirvana because Nirvana is the end aim of many religions in the world. In brief, Tao allows to self activate and the evolving power of Universe is the morality of De in Taoism.