2. The Vinegar Tasters Confucius, Buddha, and Lao-Tzu, each taste the vinegar. Each reacts differently base on his view of life. Can you guess their reactions? Find out more about their ideas and then guess.
3. Buddhism a religion begun in India and China, based on the teachings of Nepalese Prince Siddhartha Gautama, later called the Buddha, or “Enlightened One”
5. FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS Life is filled with suffering. Suffering is caused by ignorance and attachment (craving). Suffering can be ended overcoming ignorance and attachment. The Eightfold Path is the way to overcome ignorance and attachment
6. EIGHT-FOLD PATH Know truth Intend to resist evil Not say anything hurtful Respect life, property, morality Work that does not hurt others Try to free one’s mind of evil Be in control of feelings and thoughts Practice good focus
7. LAUGHING BUDDHA A big heart gives tolerance. By accepting people as they are reduces suffering in the world. By not holding grudges and resentments one is able to be like the Laughing Buddha, smile, and be content
22. Taoism Maintains that the individual should ignore the dictates of society and seek only to conform with the underlying pattern of the universe, which can neither be described in words nor conceived in thought. Yin-Yang symbolizes opposites at work in this pattern.
23. To be in accord with Tao, one has to “do nothing” wuwei—that is, nothing strained, artificial, or unnatural.
24. Through spontaneous compliance with the impulses of one's own essential nature and by emptying oneself of all doctrines and knowledge, one achieves unity with the Tao and is able transcend all mundane distinctions, even the distinction of life and death.
25. Taoists called for a return to primitive, rural agrarian life, in accord with nature.
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