The Philosophy Of Co-Becoming | NOEMA

The recent revival of yangsheng practices in everyday life, where classical ideas intersect with contemporary needs and new ideals, to achieve a better integration of individual life with family, community and nature, reveals that dialogical transcendence is alive and well in China and being tapped in similar ways.7

(6) This worldview of a single reality and a single world is profoundly defuturing, to invoke Australian design theorist Fry’s (1999) concept. To recover the ability to imagine other possible futures requires going beyond the modernist ontology of separation and toward an ontology that acknowledges the interdependence of everything that exists. Int

Inspired by the Confucian philosophy of the original nature of goodness and the Zen techniques of stilling the mind, a synthesis of the three philosophies—Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism—was reached. This form of Taoism is found in the teachings of two major Taoist sects today: the Complete Reality School (Ch’üan-chen) and the Earlier Heaven Way