
Interpretation of Taoism’s Mythical Philosophy – Or igin, Development, Return and Perfection of Consciousness
Vol. 34 No. 1 6/2004
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Interpretation of Taoism’s Mythical Philosophy – Origin, Development, Return and Perfection of Consciousness
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| Author | Hsi-san La |
| Genre | Article |
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| Key words | Taoism, myth, chaos, Yellow emperor(Huangti), consciousness |
| Abstract |
The article tries to integrate mythical images of Taoism, and then make a systematic creative interpretation of them. At first, make the correspondence of mythical images with Taoism’s philosophy. On the other hand, I want to combinemetaphoric subjects of mythical images and construct their developmental anddialectical relationship, such as ontology, cosmogony, return of practice, and perfectstyle. The dialectical process of metaphoric subjects is a representation of spiritualconsciousness, which is movement from the beginningof chaos to the differentialmind, and then eturn to the mystical consciousness, which finally unites the chaosand differential mind together. That is to say, thedialectical process of mythicalimages can translate as: origin, development, return, and perfection of consciousness. |