Ep. 34 – Confucianism vs. Taoism

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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Being In The Way, Taoism, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Alan Watts, Buddhism, Society & Culture, Education, Tao, Spirituality, Dao, Eastern Philosophy, Zen

4.9 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Breaking free from cause-and-effect and the formal ideas of Confucianism, Alan Watts describes mutual arising as the key idea of the Tao.

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This time on Being in the Way, Alan Watts describes:

Chinese philosophies of Taoism and Confucianism
Our roles in social life and Confucianism as the way for people involved in the world
Taoism as the way for those who do not prescribe to formal patterns
How the Taoist goes with nature rather than against nature
Ideologies of God as a ruler or a lord versus the Taoist perspective
Experiences in terms of their polar experience (loud vs. soft)
Mutual arising as they key idea of the Tao
Man as being within nature rather than dominating it
How Taoism gets rid of karma without challenging it
The Chinese philosophy of time
Sensing the flow of the present and flow of the Tao

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1:49.4	we're going to revisit one of our earliest podcasts and sample Taoist Way of dropping out from
1:55.1	karma, which is one of the first talks on Taoism that we ever released. And then we're going to
2:00.1	complement that with one of the most recent talks on Taoism. It ever released. And then we're going to compliment that with one of the
2:01.5	most recent talks on Taoism. It's called Wisdom of the Water Course. And these two talks
2:07.8	complement each other beautifully. I think you'll enjoy the flow. And we're going to start with a
2:13.9	little bit of my introduction from the original episode one.
2:24.2	And then we're going to go right into the second recording on Wisdom of the Water Course.
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