By the way, what does Taoism say about re-incarnation?

Agree. Besides Buddhism and Taoism, Chinese also follow Chinese folk religion and Confucianism. Very "rojak". It's seldom to find a Chinese practising the pure form of any one religion (not talking about those Christian and Muslim Chinese).

True also. Buddha taught not to kill, which is an impossibility for survival. When we pull out a veg from the ground, we are killing it. When we cook a grain of rice, we are killing it. Our bodies' internal protection mechanisms kill germs and bacteria in the millions everyday for our survival.

In my opinion, many Chinese deities are created in such a manner (not even necessary to be drunk). Someone who was charitable in his lifetime died, then someone else decided the dead one should be deified / immortalised, then spread to his village people some stories. In time, the dead one became a deity / immortal in that village, and in time, it started to spread beyond the village.

First time I saw this. Very "deep".

Ah OK, new info for me, good.
TQ

Actually, I got question here - what if all people suddenly decide to be "good Buddhists" and go round begging for food, but there is no longer anyone producing food, as everyone is begging.

I thought the Matreiya Buddha is yet to come?
But he is already linking his energy to a statue?

Back to Taoism.

What is the hierarchy of Taoist Deities?
Is there some fixed format? eg CEO, Dep CEO, SVP, etc?

Maybe at the Board level are the Three Pure One
CEO is Jade Emperor
After that ???

Wow, tqvm, is there any English version? Banana leh ..

Just for my knowledge, what about beef? Is consumption of beef prohibited in Buddhism?

What about Taoism? I understand many Guanyin followers abstain from beef altogether.

Well, there're still a lot of things that Science does not know yet. However, what it knows, is proven by good scientific process - until someone else finds a new fact to disprove it.

I think the main problem with Science is that all things need to be proven, following Scientific process. Spiritual matters (eg the existence of God(s), Devil(s), angels, demons, djinns, etc) cannot be easily proven by Scientific process, so we need something other than Science for such matters.

The passing of a truly brilliant man, but nevertheless, still a man. May he Rest in Peace.

The LoA believers need to show that ALL that they wished to Attract have come true, not just one or two things among a few hundred that they were trying to Attract.

After all, they are saying it's a LAW.

Under Scientific thought, anything under a Law (eg Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation) MUST come true.

Yes, go for business instead of employment. Employers insist on paper qualifications, then complain that the qualifications did not prepare the student for working life.

Many things in this world are dependent on money, luckily not all things.

Does Taoism have any theories on money?

Christianity says the Love of Money is the Root of all Evil.

Buddhism has many teachings on money.

Cool

I wonder is such "shortcuts" negate the benefits of the process.
- If yes, then HK people are "doomed".
- If not, then we should emulate the shortcuts in Malaysia too. Efficiency is always important.

OTOH, I see a great business potential in HK for Taoist practitioners. Open a funeral service, operationalise it, and franchise out to franchisees. After HK, maybe can go to China ... sek em sai (cannot eat finish).

Good that Taoism can be so flexible.
There are some religions where the followers are very inflexible, that some even want to live back in the times of the teachers / prophets.
However, I don't think there is any religion that actually preaches that progress is not allowed.

https://immortalmountain.wordpress.com/2016...oist-immortals/

There are several types of Daoist Immortals (Xian). Here are a few of the more common ones seen in both Chinese mythology and Xianxia novels:

Celestial Immortals (天仙 tiānxiān) – also known as Heaven Immortals or Heavenly Immortals. These are high-tier Immortals who’ve ascended to the Heavens. They are also conferred a title and post in the Celestial Bureaucracy.

Earth Immortals (地仙 dìxiān) – these are mid-tier Immortals who have not yet ascended to the Heavens.

Ghost Immortals (鬼仙 guǐxiān) – these are low-tier Immortals who will forever be restricted to the Earth/Underworld. They’ve cultivated too much Yin to be able to ascend to the Heavens.

Loose Immortals (散仙 sǎnxiān) – these are Immortals who, for whatever reason, have lost their position or have not been conferred a title/post in the Celestial Bureaucracy. In some novels, they are instead Immortals who’ve lost their physical body and now exist only in spirit form.