What do you think when you hear "Taoism"?

I think: I want to be in a religion, but I don't want to get off of the couch.

And you?

I think of the Tao of Pooh

I think
What the Fuck is this Crap?

"What a funny name, Hagar"

that's how i felt about Buddhism, kinda like, do good, but if you don't, then well, you don't.

I think of my 6Th grade history teacher.
Strange..

Yin and yang

Buddhism

Just another religion.

I can't even pronounce that.

Something along the lines of:
Tao. It is everything and nothing. It exists in everything and nothing. It is the absolute law. It is unknowable. It is a mystery. It is the truth. It it light, it is shadow. It is red, it is blue. It is you, it is me. Ad infinity.

I think of a towel, like a washcloth.

Towelism. stuff like that, I must have Miss heard that as a child and it stuck with me

I think of high school English classes, isn't that odd?

I think it sounds like an Asian man with a speech impediment trying to say Terrorism.

I just keep saying "Tao" because it sounds cool.

I think of how each and every verse and sacred text ever in existence has already been written in the books contained within the Sacred Library of my own heart....

The Way.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. --Lao Tzu (The Father of Taoism)

"Eh."

I think what you said was pretty funny! Lil =)

i think of the eastern religion that has the yin and yang thing but doesn't have any gods 'i dint think'. i think they just focus on the guy that started it but i could be wrong. we studied a lot of religions at once in school.
why do u want to just BE inn a religion? is there a reason? i dint classify myself as anything Ivanhoe i dint believe in god, i know that's atheist but i dint call myself that.
i dint see the reason in being in a religion if i dint see the point in the message theyre sending.

Wu Wei.

http://www.hku.hk/philodep/ch/wuwei.htm

Katie, you don't get it. That's OK, most don't.

I think of my English 2010 class. It was about Chinese culture. Pretty interesting stuff.

The way. Balance. Seekers of equilibrium. The writings of Lao Tzu.

Me? Yep, I'm a religious couch potato.

Actually, that's not quite true. I'll go to any kind of service of any kind of religion, if I'm invited.

So I guess I'm less a couch potato and more a guy relationship stereotype, the commitments.HObearlike to learn about all religions, but I won't commit to any.

Chicken.

Three jewels

I think of sinning sinners

I thought about the question as I read it. I think Taoism is very similar to Buddhism and Christianity. Perhaps the other major religions as well. Taoism and Buddhism are already merging in mainland China. Taoism and all the other major religions have similar themes, such as The Golden Rule. They all stand for doing unto others as you would have done to you. The thing that makes Taoism stand out from the others is that the true Taoist practitioner is not passionate about his religion -- Taoism. Or anything else for that matter. The Taoist believes in going with the flow. Relax and let life unfurl as it was intended to unfurl. Participate in living with humility, wisdom and a calm disposition. Be in harmony with the universe. That, I believe, is Taoism. You do have to get off the couch eventually, but wait until you truly have to.

TAOISM - A system of religion and philosophy based on the teachings of Lao-Te 6Th century Chinese philosopher advocating a simple and honest life and non interference with the course of natural events.

Far nicer than Christianity!!

But there are many non god religions out there!! The largest is probably BUDDHISM ? Religious teaching from Buddha and his followers that by destroying greed, hatred and delusion (the cause of all suffering) man can attain perfect enlightenment!!

But why do you want to shackle your brain and handicap yourself?!!

Science has shown atheists have a higher intelligence than people with a strong religious faith. The difference is 5.8 points according to findings in developmental psychology!!!

More members of the "intellectual elite" considered themselves atheists than the national average.

Only 7 percent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God. Whilst only 3.3 percent believed in God in the UK?s Royal Society.

Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQ?s tend not to believe in God."