Knowledge and history in Taoism.?

In Taoism, how is it possible to know anything at all? (What is the basis or source of knowledge)

How do we know what is right and wrong?

And, what is the meaning of human history?

u listen to nature and do what nature would do!!!JK!!

Sorry mostly Christians looking for their brains here.... with the odd atheist/agnostic trying to help!

that's a great question. a Taoist would answer you by saying:

Taoism is pantheism or one form of Buddhism. Knowledge here is arbitrary because Taoism lacks absolutes which means certainty of knowledge is not possible however hard we think it is. The 'theism' on the end of 'pan' is a connotation of personality, however personality doesn't exist in any form of Buddhism. Taoism is based upon either the 'impersonal other' or the 'philosophical other but there is not presence of personality. Personality is only explained in the Judeo Christian tradition where three distinct persons' whose mutual reciprocal actions between the members of the Trinity denotes One God. The god idea cannot work apart from this as indicated by Islam where Allah is alone with nobody to talk to and therefore Islam like Buddhism cannot explain personality although they make much reference to personality. Buddhism has the same problem as science and that is, how to explain how man came from non-man. Minus absolutes, certainty of knowledge is simply not possible. If we view history from the biblical view then we have answers to the basic philosophic questions of metaphysics (being.existence) and morals (moral motions/personality). For example when the Dalai Lama talks about love joy and peace etc, he does so based upon the Judeo Christian tradition. This is because to the Dalai Lama and whomever he talks to, it is clear that personality exists. Yet on the basis of their own system. this cannot be so. Our whole world lives as if Christianity is true based upon this simple biblical proposition.

If we view history from a Buddhist or scientific view point. then we have a fragmented chance view of history which essentially is meaningless without an epistemology like the Judeo Christian view. Finite things without an infinite reference point are meaningless. But in the Judeo Christian tradition beginning with personality, this problem doesn't exist. The first verse in the Bible is in the most polemic tension because it says, "In the beginning God created.." We could read it this way, "In the beginning 'personality' is then created..." Then later the Bible says they made us like them. Hence for the Christian our moral motions carry true moral responsibility and a concept of sin in regards to our actions is real.

Furthermore to understand this paper you must apply the biblical absolutes otherwise it is nigh on impossible to understand anything. All systems that lack or reject the idea of absolutes have this problem.