Lao Tzu and Taoism

>>3320463
D U D E

>>3320463
There seems to have been a thing in Asian society, I dont know if anyone has written about it, of withdrawing from society, either temporarily or permanently, in order to achieve some spiritual goal.

If I were to speculate, their connection to a higher power made their deviancy somewhat more acceptable, because they were responding to the prompts of a higher power.

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>>3320463
There was no thing as "traditional Chinese values" around when he was still alive.

In fact: there was no China at all when he was around. While the pre-Imperial Chinese States did have a notion of common general culture like the Hellenic City States did, but they're all foreign to each other as far as the States were concerned, and each had their own culture.

>>3320463
>Taoism had little in common with Chinese values
But proto-Taoism had existed as an aspect of early Chinese esotericism for quite some before the Dao De Jing, all Laozi did was flesh it out more and make it digestable for the laymen.

Dude the pic you just posted is Sun Simiao not Laozi. Sun Simiao is a physician

>dude respect your parents lmao

At last i truly see....

>>3321205
Wasn't that Confucius?

>>3321205
t. retard

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>>3320463
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab5lYFlyyjo

>>3321139
From what I understand Confucius himself was only elaborating on societal traits that were already present in his time

>>3321262
True, but the Feudal Aristocracy disliked his talk of meritocracy.

>>3320463

Isn't Taoism a philosophical variant of local Chinese folk religion, Shenism?

>>3321332
Nope. It derives from I-Ching shit, esotericist practices, and metaphysical thinking.

>>3321205
t.Confucian "religion" false flagging
it's basically OBEY:the religion