Hey Bonnie, Thanks for reading my posts and for your generous support and friendship. The teaching at the core are very similar. The challenge is that people and their egos get involved and they tend to create all kinds of "crap" around the teaching. Most practitioners of Mystic Taoism eschew what is called Spiritual Materialism, and the many external rites, rituals, ceremonies, clergy, sacred texts, religious dogma, so called “occult practices”, or metaphysics generally associated with formal religion.
Were Siddhartha's philosophies, even though if I remember correctly a Buddhist Priest" in the novel of the same name, similar to that of Lao Tzu? I read it in high school and again in the summer of my sophomore year in college. They were always seeking enlightenment, fasting and seeking no pleasure or pain? Is my memory incorrect? Thanks. I love reading your blogs.
Hey Bonnie, Thanks for reading my posts and for your generous support and friendship. The teaching at the core are very similar. The challenge is that people and their egos get involved and they tend to create all kinds of "crap" around the teaching. Most practitioners of Mystic Taoism eschew what is called Spiritual Materialism, and the many external rites, rituals, ceremonies, clergy, sacred texts, religious dogma, so called “occult practices”, or metaphysics generally associated with formal religion.
Hi Lewis-
Were Siddhartha's philosophies, even though if I remember correctly a Buddhist Priest" in the novel of the same name, similar to that of Lao Tzu? I read it in high school and again in the summer of my sophomore year in college. They were always seeking enlightenment, fasting and seeking no pleasure or pain? Is my memory incorrect? Thanks. I love reading your blogs.