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Week 4 Chinese Religion

Week 4 Chinese Religion

Q Option 2 For this option, address the following: a. Explain the Daoist ideal of wuwei. b. Describe how this ideal contributes to harmony with heaven? c. Compare the Daoist idea of wuwei to Confucius' approach to how one should live in the world? d. Explain how one of these approaches (wuwei/Confucius) might apply in your profession.

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To understand this, we have to get a clear meaning of the word ‘Wuwei’. ‘Wuwei’ basically means ‘no-action’ or ‘actionless action’’. The whole here is to go with the flow of life and do anything to change it. Daoism refers to religious and philosophical tradition which begun in China about more than 2000 years ago. The whole idea of Daoism is to understand that going by the flow of nature is the only reasonable action to do. We human have to understand that we are a very small part of an ongoing larger process and only going with the flow of nature makes sense. This is called the way of Dao (Po-Tuan, 2001). Surely this idea contributes to harmony in heaven because the whole