{"id":73,"date":"2020-01-28T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:36:00","slug":"tao-te-ching-and-yin-yang-1-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/01\/28\/tao-te-ching-and-yin-yang-1-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Tao Te Ching and Yin Yang 1\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The introduction to the Tao Te Ching was very informative background information before getting started reading the first 40 \u201cphilosophies\u201d. I was able to better understand Taoism with it being compared to other schools of philosophy such as the Legalist school and Confucianism. It was fairly easy to pick up on some major themes throughout the text such as humility, selflessness, and balance. As apart of class preparation for today we were also supposed to look into the Yin Yang symbol. After an exploration of Yin and Yang, text 28 seemed to be a direct reference to Yin and Yang. The Yin part of the symbol is associated with the female, black, and the spirit aspect of things while the Yang is associated with the male, white, and the \u201cform\u201d of things, which makes sense that text 28 says, \u201cknow the male, maintain the female\u201d and \u201cknow the white, sustain the black\u201d. Since the symbol is all about balance, it comes as no surprise that the text says ,\u201creturn to simplicity\u201d because simplicity breed balance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another text that spoke deeply to me was text 33. I really liked how this what was all about having a relationship with yourself. I feel like this text is trying to tell people that, \u201cKnowing others is intelligent. Knowing yourself is enlightened\u201d because if you know yourself then you can better interact with others which helps them. In the last lines a part of me also thinks that the text is telling people to enjoy selfless lives because if you do then your \u201clife will endure\u201d even after death. This then constitutes a selfless act, which is what Taoism seems to be centered around.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.ancient.eu\/Yin_and_Yang\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The introduction to the Tao Te Ching was very informative background information before getting started reading the first 40 \u201cphilosophies\u201d. I was able to better understand Taoism with it being compared to other schools of philosophy such as the Legalist school and Confucianism. It was fairly easy to pick up on some major themes throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196674,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}