What is Taoism?

Taoism  is a philosophical and religious tradition. Taoism was several times nominated as state religion in the historey of China. It was suppressed in the first decades of the communist era but continued to be practised in Taiwan. Taoisim is also called Daoism. The term Tao means the way, the path or the principle.Tao is difficult to explain. It is believed that everything is connected and unified with Tao.

Tao

Tao can be be interpreted as road, channel, path, doctrine, or line. According to the tradition, Tao is indescribable. It refers to something nameless, natural, eternal and spontaneous.  It has variously been denoted as the flow of the universe", a conceptually necessary ontological ground, or a demonstration of nature. The Tao also is something that individuals can find immanent in themselves.

Wu-wei

Taoist philosophy proposes that the universe works harmoniously according to its own ways. When someone exerts their will against the world, they disrupt that harmony. Taoism does not identify one's will as the root problem. Rather, it asserts that one must place their will in harmony with the natural universe. Thus, a potentially harmful interference is to be avoided, and in this way, goals can be achieved effortlessly.

Naturalness

The primordial state. The one an individual must identify with. To attain naturalness, one has to free oneself from selfishness and desire, and appreciate simplicity.

The Three Trasures

The Three Treasures (also called Three Jewels) are basic virtues in Taoism comprising Compassion, Moderation, and Humility. They are also translated as kindness, simplicity (or the absence of excess), and modesty.

Yin and Yang

Yin and Yang describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces, such as action and non-action, light and dark, hot and cold, and so on,  are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world; and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

The Bahá'í Faith is one of the latest world's major religions. Here are some fects about this religion.

• It is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th-century in Persia.
• The religion emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind. That is to say the faith acceptsall religions as having true and valid origins
• There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.
• In the Bahá'í Faith, religious history is seen to have unfolded through a series of divine messengers such as Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and others, each of whom established a religion that was suited to the needs of the time and the capacity of the people
• For Baha'is, the most recent messengers are the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh. In Bahá'í belief, each consecutive messenger prophesied of messengers to follow.
• Humanity is understood to be in a process of collective evolution, and the need of the present time is for the gradual establishment of peace, justice and unity on a global scale

Religions of the world (video)

Religions of the world (video)

This is an introduction to World Religions