When a psychologist understands the relationship of Taoism to Western personality dimensions, it is then possible for the psychologist to apply counseling and psychotherapy concepts which may surpass traditional methods. A group of writings, the Tao Te Ching, attributed to Lao Tzu (1972), and those of Chuang Tzu, emerged in fifth-century China. These writings expressed a natural way of intercon...

Much as Christianity has informed the development of the arts in the West thematically as well as compositionally, Taoism, one of the key philosophical systems to emerge out of China in the sixth or fifth century BCE, has left its stamp on Chinese art, literature and music. Leading translator of Asian spiritual literature, Thomas Cleary, pays tribute to the enormous impact of Taoist thought on ...

Spirituality and religious coping is an important and rapidly expanding field in recent years. For the Chinese, traditional Taoism may still have a strong impact on the mental health of Chinese people. Taoistic concepts of mental health stress the transcendence from self and secularity, the dynamic revertism of nature, integration with nature and the pursuit of the infinite. Compared with weste...

The Great Dictionary of Taoism, published by Huaxia Publishing House in 1994 and compiled the Chinese Taoist Association Suzhou Association, is first comprehensive reference book on Taoism world. dictionary has provided invaluable assistance for scholars Taoism. However, last three decades, with flourishing research language literature, inadequacies have gradually become apparent. Therefore, a ...

Brazilian author Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is believed to be a work that inspires readers reflect upon their dreams and pursue them. While it matter of discussion as what makes the novel so, one apparent reasons compelling presence philosophical ideas like Taoism. However, Taoism—the idea going with universe’s “flow” - contradicts use “fate” or “Maktub” present in same work. Maktub stands fo...