RELIGION

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Religious Taoism

Religious Taoism appropriated earlier interest and belief in alchemy and the search for the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone. By the 5th cent. A.D., Taoism was a fully developed religious system with many features adopted from Mahayana Buddhism, offering emotional religious satisfaction to those who found the largely ethical system of Confucianism inadequate. Taoism developed a large pantheon (probably incorporating many local gods), monastic orders, and lay masters. Heading the commonly worshiped deities is the Jade Emperor. Directly under him, ruling from Mt. Tai, is the Emperor of the Eastern Mountain, who weighs merits and faults and assigns reward and punishment in this and future existences. An ecclesiastical hierarchy was founded in the 8th cent., headed by the T'ien Shih [master of heaven]; he claimed succession from Chang Tao-lin, an alchemist of the 2d cent. who was reputed to have discovered the elixir of immortality after receiving magical power from Lao Tzu.

Religion and Liberation in one's self

When matching “liberated” theology to “liberation” theology, we find that “liberation” theology focuses on communal matters and institutional oppression, while “liberated” theology locations the oppression of the self by itself, and then proceeds to the self's connection with others. The distinction arises from the detail that “liberation” theology starts with oppression of the self by another, and “liberated” theology starts with the oppression of the self by the self.

Epicureanism

Epicureanism is an very vintage Greek philosophical scheme educated by Epicurus. It emphasized the aim of a joyous and content life in the here and now, declining both superstitous worry of the gods and notions of an afterlife.

The Epicurean purpose of life is calm of brain, joyfulness and pleasure. But the Epicurean pursuit of delight was neither hedonism neither self-indulgence. Epicurus mainly encouraged the delights of the brain, ...