Within the Taoist philosophy is contained the soul of this enigmatic culture. The most important book of this civilization is the YI CHING or Book of Changes , where there are strata views oldest wisdom of man and nature.
The CHING YI is a work of antiquity, whose origin is unknown at the time.
Another seminal work of Chinese culture is the book of TAO (tao te ching) its author is the mystic and philosopher known as caster LAO-TSE. The Book of Tao is a collection of oral transmission that existed in ancient China. She has 81 chapters divided into two parts, one called the Book of Tao, the second is the book of life book of the mind, represented by the ideogram you. This work contains a description of the way that man runs from the time of birth and natural world view that appears as philosophy and metaphysics. The tract of LAO, whose point starting the book of changes, and as indicated, the Old Master (LAO TSE) it comes from life experience, as well as the intuition of existence, as indicated in the ideogram mentioned.
filosfía so The natural way of life, not become the conceptual speculation, nor is it a philosophy of ideals, but what becomes unpredictable.
The other work of great importance in the Taoist filosfia is nan Hua Chuang-tzu ching consisting of 33 chapters, divided into three sections.
The enigma of these three books is that they have a certain spirit or magical aura that attracts while the common man, cause rejection of the scholar who seeks to prejudice based on their knowledge and know everything, which goes beyond recognizing and developing theories fictional.
The Book of Changes, despite the efforts of renowned Sinologists Orientalists, has laid a translation-oriented "life wisdom" but to an address oracular which is not in accordance with the spirit of TAO as shown in the TTch (Tao-te-ching) and Hua-nan ching of Chuang Tzu. Oracular sense can not differ from the sense of intuitive wisdom as it appears on Lao and Chuang-tzu .
The lack of Chinese language and have not had the opportunity to have been in contact with the Taoist tradition and replace it with the experience and the subjectivity of scholars, it becomes an insurmountable obstacle, but to clarify veil and obscure the view of the ancients. to all this is added the fact that the book combines "intuitive wisdom" with the intellect, as a server first.
The magical knowledge which alludes to the Book of Changes is centralized in the intuitive wisdom that Taoism called nonbeing.
Thus, the foundation of YI-CHING , is based on intuition alliance reason, is it that gave this work the longevity it has had on the time, because they relied on logical criteria, it had been made of the flexibility that allowed him to cross all cultural barriers. This flexibility comes from the "intuition of life" and not the assumptions about it. Both
Lao Tzu and Chuang from a tradition oral is beyond the academic bias of institutions and individuals.
The philosophy of "Book of Changes" is so broad and deep that has influenced all the cultural events of China's civilization and has remained until now apart from the excesses of globalization and technology.
Chuang-tzu unlike Lao Tzu is a writer, poet, mystic and philosopher who has influenced not only Sinitic culture, but throughout East Asia. His mastery of the Chinese language has no parallel with any other writer. He is not only a artist's life, but a poet and seer who express the most subtle teachings of the archaic men, an ironically humorous prose and poetic rhythm. Use the name of the emperors of China to describe regions of metaphoric, symbolic, and paradoxically, the treasure of the wisdom of real men.
These three works mentioned constitute the core where you can prove all other writings of the Taoist Canon (Tao tsang).
So, art, myth, philosophy and mysticism are ways in which knowledge is revealed Spirit (Shen). They are all types of language that are reflected in the spoken and written language, and is in the field of writing that makes an art china civilization where the relative and the transcendent live in a unit, this is the calligraphy .
writing differs from western China in the sense that an ideogram to be written can have a wide range of meanings.
Each ideogram is based on some of the 224 radicals, and each of these has a basic meaning, but also have some "extensibility" . Thus, an ideogram can be verb, adverb, adjective or have some functional variations, and the same plasticity that makes the symbol.
A symbol is presented as a collection center, where there is a variable of issues that seem to be rigidly delineated.
When calligraphy, his intellectual sphere (grammatical) changes to the aesthetic sphere, where language begins its return to the interior to become undivided being named Lao nonbeing (wu ) .
The conceptual meaning is the content "superficial" of an ideogram has a function similar to of "human personality" . When that meaning, which states as superficial or formal life blurs, emerges a hidden meaning that is "extensible" or spirit is the basis of which language is born.
Thus, the intentional meaning of the ideogram lies intellectual and utilitarian. Is spontaneous as the undercover unit, which stems not only life but also all varieties of human languages. The first meaning (intentional) helps small and utilitarian goals. But in a second sense of how small and how useful are integrated naturally with real or mysterious origin (Hsuan-ming), and the calligraphy becomes a direct vision where art, philosophy, myth and mystique make the intuitive wisdom of life.
