I just want to weight in on number 5

When I was growing up, people always tell me if house altar don't have buddha, u are taoist.

So basically most can tell the basics of most religion. Islam-allah muhammad quran. Christian - jesus bible adam eve. Buddhism - live of buddha , suffering, karma. Hindu-krishna , ganesh.

But I can't tell even the basic of tao.

So I googled and learnt the main books for tao are the TaoTeChing and zhuangzi. I'm very surprised by the secular content of these 2 books. It's philosophically oriented rather than god and superficial realm.

I deduce that both books are very secular and philosophical in nature.
Just like socrates , plato etc.
It explores concepts rather than supernatural (like creator etc)

I would think that if u have alters and u know that u are not a buddhist (not having the buddha statue of kuan yin or buddha related statues ) , u are more likely practicing chinese folklore religion rather than taoism. And chinese folklore religion has incorporated taoism in it because the taoism concept is a very influential school of thoughts at that time

This post has been edited by moonhowler: Mar 14 2021, 05:33 PM