WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Daoist community believes that nature, not people, ultimately controls how things change. Therefore, humans and their rules are less important. They also see the Confucianist emphasis on culture and civilized society as unnecessary and rather unnatural.

Detailed explanation-2: -Daoists speak of a harmony among all aspects of nature, and say “Heaven and earth and I live together.” The harmony in nature is illustrated in the balance between such things as water and mountains.

Detailed explanation-3: -By following nature, therefore, human lives achieve harmony or convergence with the dao – with the Way, that is. And harmony with the Way is the supreme Daoist imperative. Humankind, one might say, has lost the Way; nature has not. So by returning to living naturally, men and women will once again be ‘on the Way’.

Detailed explanation-4: -The important Taoist principles are inaction, simplicity and living in harmony with nature.