For what I understand from Chinese books and histories, Tao is the first-cause of the universe. It is a force that flows through all life. The goal of everyone is one with the Tao. The concept of a personified deity is foreign to Taoism, as is the concept of the creation of the universe. Thus, they do not pray as Christians do; there is no God to hear the prayers or act upon them. They seek answers to life-pro

From the eighth to the last sentence of the poem, it explains that Taoist (or Chinese people) are modest. I, as a Chinese, learn from the thousand years of Chinese histories that a person should be modest and polite. A person should be a Chinese phrase which means ¡§hidden all your power inside your body, to vanish his or her own conceit¡¨. Looking at the silkscreen, there are some tiny human in the picture. It gives me an idea that human is one of the nature¡¦s components, but they are not the biggest and powerful, comparing to mountains, oceans and rivers. In addition, the poem and silkscreen made me realized a big difference between Eastern and Western religion. Taoist (or Chinese) most likely want to be as small as possible since they think human is just one of nature¡¦s component. On the other hand, the Romans (as an example) wanted to prove that human has greatness.

Buddha told his followers that one person could cease suffering when he could cease all his desires. In addition, these messages remind me that why monks are vegetarians with bald heads. They also live in monasteries that far away from cities; they practice the "Four Noble Truths" and the "Eightfold Path" with no alcohol and abstinence for their whole lives. I heard from my grandmother that a monk has to cut all his or her hair in order to cut off (cease) their desires. Chinese people symbolized hair as ¡§the three thousand vexation strings¡¨. In conclusion, after I reread many times about the messages from the "Four Noble Truths" and the "Eightfold Path", I think that Buddha¡¦s message is to think beyond limitations. These limitations for every person are coming from health, wealth, success, live longer, security, and the ultimate egoism and desire inside his heart. A person who can get away from desires with practices of meditations; he or she will understand the truth live of freedom and enlightenment.

blems through inner meditation and other observation. Taoists seek to live on natural ways; the great harmony of nature has been created for everyone. The environment (flowers, trees, rivers, oceans, mountains) are all natural. Taoism is the practice for a person to become as natural born and living as the environment.

On the first day of class, I was thinking that this class will give me an easy ¡§A¡¨ by finish all the paper works. However, as I attended the fourth class, my interest in humanity and religions were developed. I really don¡¦t like to take religion class because I was forced to take when I was in Hong Kong. It wa

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