>make up some mystic mumbo jumbo
>use it to sell shitty antiques to white people
>they take it seriously

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>>7709470

> Tao Te Ching
> Mystic

It's basically eastern stoicism, senpai

>he's not zen
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>>7709470
that's the mohists, no?

>not being a Zen Buddhist

Basically combines the best parts of Taoism and Buddhism.

>>7709463
>“The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of value. It is the sole source of all value judgments. If it is rejected, all value is rejected. If any value is retained, it is retained. The effort to refute it and raise a new system of value in its place is self-contradictory. There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgment of value in the history of the world. What purport to be new systems or…ideologies…all consist of fragments from the Tao itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation, yet still owing to the Tao and to it alone such validity as they posses.”
>― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

>>7709463
>>7709483

So is laughing at non-Buddhists what someone can expect from Buddhism? That doesn't sound right.

>>7709520
they laugh at buddhists too, don't worry m0

>>7709505

Wait, did Lewis really say this? I thought he was a pretty stout Christian

>>7709560
He thought that the Tao was relevant in that it was an adequate description of the Judeo-Christian divine, and that the way to reach the Tao was through Jesus as the Redeeming Christ.

>>7709653
and his teachings on ethics and morality

>>7709463
good for reading on the shitter