China Digital Times (CDT) » Post Tag: Tao Te Ching http://chinadigitaltimes.net Watching China Politics from Cyberspace Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:19:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Taoism in the Service of the State – Sam Cranehttp://chinadigitaltimes.net/2007/04/taoism-in-the-service-of-the-state-sam-crane/ http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2007/04/taoism-in-the-service-of-the-state-sam-crane/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:20:48 +0000 Xiao Qiang http://chinadigitaltimes.net/2007/04/26/taoism-in-the-service-of-the-state-sam-crane/ © Xiao Qiang for China Digital Times (CDT), 2007. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.usPost tags: Tao Te Ching, taoism Download Tools to Circumvent the Great Firewall ]]> The author of The Useless Tree wrote a commentary post about the Xinhua news on “China to build harmonious society with wisdom of Taoism:”

Maybe the Party is making a big mistake. By bringing into the political discourse they are opening the way (Way?) for all sorts of ideas that push against authoritarian power. How about passage 75 of the :

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China’s high-ranking officials have called for adopting the wisdom of ancient to build a harmonious society.

Tao Te Ching, or the Classic of the Way and Virtue, was written by Lao Zi about 2,500 years ago, around the time when Buddha was expounding the Dharma in India and Pythagoras was teaching in Greece.

“It is not only a precious gem in the treasure house of Chinese culture but a common spiritual wealth of the mankind,” said China’s senior official Jia Qinglin at a congratulatory message to the International Forum on , which started Sunday in Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. [Full Text]

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