Taoists practiced meditation, Feng Shui, fortune telling, reading and chanting of scripture. ... Legalism China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang Di was one of main Legalism thinkers. Qin Shi Huangdi was the first emperor to unite China. ... Yoga can be counted as one of the many meditations in Taoism. ... How might they apply to your personal worldview, to your personal philosophy? ...
Taoism is not a religion, nor a philosophy. ... It is a kind of religious system heavily focused on meditation and contemplation. ... Taoism started as a combination of psychology and philosophy but evolved into a religious faith in 440 CE when it was adopted as a state religion. ... Tao is the first-cause of the universe. ... Augmenting meditation with formal training in Taoist philosophy helps eliminate confusion about the every day world which further contributes to stress reduction. ...
However, as a vow to find enlightenment, Siddhartha sat under a tree and through deep meditation, he became the enlightened Buddha. ... The first of his truths is the Truth of Suffering. ... Two are related to wisdom: right views and right discrimination; three are related to correct ethical conduct and three are related to meditation" (Strong, John). ... The first step is the "right understanding", which asks a person to really understand himself and to know who he is. ... The final step is the "right meditation"; this helps one to be deeply focus and calm one's mind. ...
Augustus arose the birth of moral laws in Christianity when the first law he brought into public light was that there would be no fornication unless it was for strictly procreational reasons. ... Participants of Tantra seek enlightenment and union with the Divine through sexual rites and other forms of meditation and ritual. ... After Tantra was brought to China by traveling monks, it was combined with Taoist philosophy and Chinese medical theory, and was used by those who sought to increase health and (in some cases) achieve physical immortality (through sexual techniques thought to prol...
"Religion is any specific system of belief about deity, often involving rituals, a code of ethics, a philosophy of life, and a worldview" (1215.org). ... After years of meditation and study, he found the "Middle Path" and became enlightened. ... Next, in came the Qin Dynasty that was established as the first empire. ... Christianity began roughly around the first century. ... The first community of Christians were the Jews. ...
