Buddhism & Converting To Taoism

Because the philosophical and spiritual principles involved in Taoism emphasize consent and creative quietude, I would not forsee any affable of radical or study conflict which might occur in my life if I became a Taoist tomorrow morning. get a Taoist is not like becoming a member of an organized church where it is required to attend specific services adn functions and the impact of Taoism on ones life is, to my understanding, rooted first in the ain and only secondarily in the public sphere. In fact, one might be a Taoist without nay one else even knowing the fact.The lack of dogma in Taoism means that it would never unfeignedly be necessary to preach or proselytize to anyone just about your beliefs. In the Toa Te Ching, the verse which reads The tao that stop be described / is not the eternal Tao. (Tao) should be enough of a warning to any disciple of Taoism to remember that there is no one truth no one way and so, unlike most religions which stress preaching to others, Taoism, as a philosophical belief would require nothing like this kind of dogma or witnessing. The changes which I would expect and hope would happen in my life are establish around the idea of giving up false ambitions and false self-images and each(prenominal)owing the natural ambitions and expressions of myself to emerge from where they have been sleeping. In America we are taught no pain, no gain and this is a kind of philosophical burden that we all carry which is in conflict with another idea most of us simultaneously carry with us that we want to be happy.The idea that we cannot gain unless we are in pain and that all gain is in conclusion to create happiness is self-contradicting and it bears genuinely little resemblance to the Taoist idea that Freed from desire, you can see the obscure mystery. /By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real. (Tao) but it is precisely this kind of resolution to the self-contradictory impulses in Western society that I would hope Taoism would lead me through. The Taoist principles I would invoke, as mentioned, would be invoked primarily through action and not words.So, if someone found out that I often want to be alone to meditate, or that I often followed intuition rather than logic in devising decisions and that I sought to be emotionally and psychologically in touch with Darkness born from darkness. / The showtime of all understanding. (Tao), I expect I would be able to explain to them that my beliefs and practices were part of a larger, very ancient, philosophy with roots in the East and that through its tenants and practices I hoped to find harmony within myself and harmony with my surroundings no more(prenominal), no less.I think that practicing Taoist meditation and creative quietude would certainly head in a lessening of tension in my life. It would probably result in my having a more active imaginary and dream-life, maybe a break up sex life, and possibly even a better regiment of diet and exercise. The danger with any religion of philosophy is to look at it as a cure all to expect a miracle to come out of it immediately and change everything you dont like about yourself or your life.Another danger is obsession or the inability to see anything else but the dogma of ones religion or philosophy. I believe that Taoism is so genuinely free of dogma that its basic ideas and practice would result in widening, rather than diminishing, my personality and personal disposition. I think I would find myself relaxed while others were getting tense. I think I would start slow with the more esoteric practices of sutra and yoga but lean very to a great extent at forst on the ideas and spiritual wisdom available in Taoist thought.