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Taoism Doctrine

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  • The world of our experience is constantly transforming.
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  • Our experience of the world is relative to our perspective.
  • Therefore we must be wary of our tendency to adopt fixed or dogmatic judgments, evaluations, and standards based on a narrow viewpoint, since this leads to conflict and frustration.
  • Optimal experience involves freeing ourselves from slavish commitment to convention. This enables us to see clearly (ming) and act spontaneously and unobtrusively (wuwei).
  • The ideal person is one who is perfectly well adjusted in this way.
  • The "genuine person" precedes "genuine knowledge".
  • Language functions to convey meaning, and the meaning of language are relative to context.
  • Philosophical disputation, though sometimes stimulating, is a somewhat futile enterprise because "right" and "wrong" cannot be determined through argument.