Upload
jiminikiz
View
132
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation I made for my Asian Humanities class. All of the artwork was %100 done by me in Photoshop CS3.This presentation covers some my favorite verses in the translated Tao, differences in the left and right brain, and the Three Epochs of humanity.
Citation preview
• Tao means “way” or “path”• Taoism is the “way to follow this
path…”
…to everything
“One way to describe the Tao Te Ching is as: ‘A Guide to the Theory and Practice
of the Great Integrity.’
However, there is no one way to describe the Tao Te Ching.”
Left Brain Dominance Right Brain Dominance
• Magic, mystic• Knowing• Paradox• Social• Feel• Love• Spontaneous• Being
• Science• Knowledge• Logic• Individual• Rationalize• Control• Predictable• Doing, Accomplishing
Past
(3+ million
years)
Tribal
Natural Harmony
Intuitive
Natural
Left Brain
Modern
(5000 years)
‘Civilized’
Disharmony
Philosophical
Unnatural
Right Brain
Future
(years to
come)
Holistic
Pure Harmony
Synergistic
Integral
The Brain
• Dale, Ralph Alan. Tao Te Ching: A New Translation & Commentary. – New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2004
• Siu, R. G. H. The Tao of Science. – Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 1957.
• Hoff, B. The Tao of Pooh. – New York: Penguin, 1982.
• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism (April 16, 2007).