Tradition · China: *Daodejing* and *Zhuangzi* roots, later religious movements with priests and pantheons, modern global circulation via translation and practice lineages. 0 essays
Daoism
classical texts to celestial bureaucracy— Dao, alchemy, and organized religion entwined
Daoism spans philosophical quietism and liturgical institutions—wu-wei beside thunder rites—resisting tidy export. Comparative religion links Dao to-being’s oceanic metaphors; practitioners emphasize breathing, ethics, and cosmos-aligned arts.
Western “Daoism” sometimes means minimalism kitsch; scholarly voices thicken historical layers.
Outdeus positions Daoism as scaffolding for immanent ultimacy, liberation without creator grammar, sacred landscapes, and ritual bodies trained by time rather than argument-alone.
- Concepts
- Immanence and transcendence ·Liberation ·Ritual ·Sacred space ·Pantheism
- Figures
- Laozi ·Gautama Buddha ·Plato ·Karen Armstrong ·William James