Taoism In Xiao Tianshi's eyes

Hi guys! I am so happy to meet you guys this week! Today I will tell you guys some theory about how Xiao Tianshi's view of Taoism.

Old-time Taoist

We already know that Taoism is one special philosophy which believed in inner cultivation will help people prolong their life and achieve eternal life eventually. But Xiao Tianshi argued that Taoism should not just about living forever, Taoism should help people to expand their realm and help people live beyond live and death.

In order to escape the road of live and death, Xiao Tianshi believed that people should chase the original "Tao" spirit to sublimate their physical and mental. He thought Taoism is not a philosophy about how to achieve infinity but teach people how the universe works and how to escape from the cycle of live and death. He thought Confucianism teaches people how to be part of the society and how to work efficiency and friendly with other people and Buddhism teaches people how to escape from the world mental and achieve Buddha to live forever. He considered that Taoism teaches people how to live in and live out the world at the same time and achieve people's final realm to get immortal. 

道家做人重修炼。以虚无恬澹，守道明德，清静无为，柔弱无争，因应自然为条目；以炼心炼性为总纲；惟揉合阴阳，性命双修，返朴还淳，竊天地机缄，夺阴阳造化为大用；而以出神入化，还虚合道，羽化登真，超生死，超天地而驾神明，块然与宇宙精神独往来为最高境界。主超世间，合太虚一体，以成就一个我，完成一个人；最后并粉碎虚空，虚亦不立，期能了道入真为主旨。 

A modern people who is practicing Taoist.

This is a paragraph from one of Xiao Tianshi's book about how to practice Tao in the right way. In this paragraph, Xiao Tianshi insisted that people who practice Taoist should empty their body first both physically and mentally. Empty your body can get your body clean and help your body to experience the operation of universe. After that, Xiao Tianshi argued that people should start to study the discipline of universe and try to go back to pure nature to learn the secret of universe. Eventually, when people knows the law of universe, their will work and live like the universe and live as long as the universe works.

This is how Xiao Tianshi believed in Taoism and how he practice Taoism in his entire life. Hope this will gives you some inspiration! (^ ^) Next week I will translate some paragraph from Xiao Tianshi's book and hope you can get some idea of Xiao Tianshi's world of "Tao."