Taoism/Foreword

Foreword

The main theme of the methodology of Taoism is identical to Christian Hesychasm and other healthy religious trends. It consists of the recommendation to all reasonable people to develop themselves precisely as the spiritual hearts. Only this way gives the possibility to cognize God and achieve the fullness of spiritual self-realization.

In the following millennia from the creation of Taoism, these Teachings were, in great measure, distorted by human ignorance, as it always happens with the Teachings given to people by God [1]. Even the word Tao itself has been interpreted as a “path”, although from Tao Te Ching it is quite clear that “... Tao is a Being...” (Tao Te Ching, 32). The study of the Path of improving oneself and practical cognition of God were replaced by the meaningless chatter about, for example, the dividing of food and everything else into the categories of yin and yang, as well as about thousands of good and evil spirits supposedly living in the bodies of people, etc.

But let’s return to the Source!

More detailed theoretical and methodological information on this topic can be obtained in the materials, listed at the end of this book.