There's also a branch called tao-chia - the school of
Tao or of unity with the Tao - developed by the famous Taoist masters Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu.
In short, tao-chia
Taoism is a way of life. Trying to define it, Alan
Watts, perhaps the most important western author who wrote about Taoism,
says:
Taoism [is] the way of
man's cooperation with the course or trend of the natural world, whose
principles we discover in the flow patterns of water, gas, an fire,
which are subsequently memorialized or sculptured in those of stone and
wood, and, later, in many forms of human art. (From Tao: The Watercourse Way).
Tao-chia is a way of life which
tries to accommodate the tendencies of nature. But this approach is not a
pure return to Mother Nature, so familiar to our New Age ideology.
Rather it is a wisdom acquired by simply observing the flow of the
natural world.
- Tao-te ching
Everything we know about tao-chia Taoism - its concepts and practice - come from Tao-te ching (The Classic of Tao and Te) ascribed to Lao-tzu.
If you are interested in physics than i should recommend you read the beautifull book by firtjof capra
THE TAO OF PHYSICS. It will give you a great start.
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