Hindu and Taoist thoughts and actions

To those unaccustomed to Eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, or Taoism, many ideas and doctrines suggested by these faiths tend to seem inaccessible or merely not understandable. Westerners looking inward at these religions tend to shrug at the thought of disinterested actions, a separation o...

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Main Author: Stein, Jon (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Univ. 2008
In: Nidān
Year: 2008, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-96
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Summary:To those unaccustomed to Eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism, or Taoism, many ideas and doctrines suggested by these faiths tend to seem inaccessible or merely not understandable. Westerners looking inward at these religions tend to shrug at the thought of disinterested actions, a separation of the self and the Self, or higher alman, or the idea of performing action without decisiveness or in accord with nature. How, then, can we explain some of these ideas, which are necessary in attaining knowledge of a higher self, as suggested in the Bhagavad-Gita? I will, in this paper, explain some of the more difficult aspects of Hinduism, namely those having to do with actions, in terms of another religion, namely Taoism, which holds similar doctrines concerning actions, in an attempt to further explain the Bhagavad-Gita's view on actions in an accessible manner.
ISSN:2414-8636
Contains:Enthalten in: Nidān
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2008.1