WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Interconnected from the beginning, these three types of Daoism-literati, communal, and self-cultivation-although distinct in their abstract description, are not mutually exclusive in practice.

Detailed explanation-2: -Taoist thought focuses on genuineness, longevity, health, immortality, vitality, wu wei (non-action, a natural action, a perfect equilibrium with tao), detachment, refinement (emptiness), spontaneity, transformation and omni-potentiality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Taoism holds that humans and animals should live in balance with the Tao, or the universe. Taoists believe in spiritual immortality, where the spirit of the body joins the universe after death.

Detailed explanation-4: -Taoist Cultivation practices include stillness meditation, internal alchemical meditation, ritual, martial arts, life nourishing through diet, qigong and living in harmony with the seasons and calendar.