RELIGIONS
CONFUCIANISM
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People can strive for power and wealth
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People can gain happiness by becoming one with the ‘Dao’ or ‘the way’
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Rules and regulations are above all important to society
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Daoism taught that people gained happiness and peace by living in harmony, or agreement, with the way of nature. To the Daoists, nature is full of opposites, like life and death or light and darkness. True harmony comes from balancing the opposite forces of nature called yin and yang.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi proposes that happiness is nothing but wuwei (no contrived action) that is, using one’s natural abilities and intuition to flow with one’s environment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Introduction to Daoism | Asia for Educators | Columbia University. Introduction to Daoism. The Chinese word dao means a way or a path. Confucians used the term dao to speak of the way human beings ought to behave in society. In other words, dao, for them, was an ethical or moral way.
Detailed explanation-4: -Taoism teaches that all living creatures ought to live in a state of harmony with the universe, and the energy found in it. Ch’i, or qi, is the energy present in and guiding everything in the universe.
Detailed explanation-5: -What is the Dao of Contentment then? The Dao of Contentment is to smile and accept what is, and then act or not act, without concern for anything other than our own good intention and best effort. In this way we can be happy with life’s circumstances at all times…even when we seek to change them.