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Influential people that have revolutionized culture.

 

Lao Tzu

Lao Tzu the man we know little about. Although legends are plentiful, we are uncertain whether he truly wrote the Tao te Ching or, like Homer, was only capturing the mood of the time.

Clearly contrasting with positivistic writings of Confucius and opposed to all worldly dealings in governments and political society, he stressed The Way or The Path leading to what Buddha would have called nirvana, what we might be conceiving rather as the omega-point of existence, something profound, unique and different to each human being.

Embracing and amplifying the age-old notions of the yin and the yang, he conceived them not as opposites, but as polarities which in the cosmic circular movement will reverse the attributes.

The religion he founded -no doubt without intending to- gives an individual the power to overcome all obstacles through leading a life in accordance with nature -- nature not understood as the green fields that nourish mankind or the flowers that embellish men's path, but as all the circumstances one encounters on a journey through life.

Divided into various streams, Taoism has flourished in China for 25 centuries as the yin poetical flower of Chinese creative awareness with the power of a yang drive to what is effective living, offering a spiritual alternative for many.