What are the values/beliefs of Taoism?
The important thing about Taoism is that, like Zen, it is illogical. Students of the Tao (it means Way) are discouraged from any type of worship and/or prayer to a higher deity as it is explained that these are acts of limited consciousness. One first has to imagine and use the mental concept of the deity in order to pray to or worship it, therefore it is said that this type of God is an illusion created by the intellect. Further, it is taught that to correctly follow the Way, all notions of an individual separated self are illusory and one should have no attachments to such notions. Tao and Zen are closely related and you will find the same terminology appearing in writings from both traditions, also, the mystical teachings of Hinduism, especially Baghavad Gita, echoes the principles of both Tao and Zen. In modern society in general we are not accustomed to thinking in the way that these teachings urge us to think and at first the things you read in them seem to be nonsense but persev
