Slight Exploration Of Immortal Faith In True Spirit Position Diagram

Taoism is indigenous to china and the biggest characteristic of except can give a person with spiritual way and hopes outside, is particularly aware of the life and the desire to phoenix to become immortal.Taoist immortals is basic beliefs "tao" reflect, goals and finally home of the monk is immortal. Therefore Taoism has always been very serious of immortal.Taoism classic "Taiping jing" divided immortal into six grades, Taoism elementary level named Wudoumi is seem Laozi as Taishang Senior, and embrace sky, earth and water. In the North and South Dynasty in addition to embrace Taishang Senior, but also seemed the king, the beginning Tianzun Senior as supreme god. With the classical and many clans arise, Taoist immortals belief systems get further development, at the time of the word appeared named such as the Tianzun, emperor, Yuan monarch, true gentleman, etc, but no sequence. during the periods of Liang and Chen in the South Dynasty, Tao hong Jing writing "True spirit position diagram", which marshals the immortal position of the history and is the earliest systematization Chinese Taoist immortals pedigree. It nearly seven class according to more than 700 fairy and divided into left bits, right bits, scattered fairy bits, female fairy bits lay the on the list with form. This lineage mainly of congenital real immortal and acquired immortal. Congenital real immortal is the image of people worship beliefs of many nihilistic abstruse and nature, they are godhead personified and institutionalized nature, and have supernatural power, such as the beginning Tianzun, star monarch, god of five mountain and river and sea god, etc. Then acquired immortal is mostly majority in Chinese Taoist mythology who mostly is come from normal and course of they hard to try to make pills of immortality and cultivate vital energy, so that they have some power as superhuman. Fame ancient immortal, such as Chisong, Hangdi, Guangcheng son, mother Queen of the west , etc.; Also have famous eminent monk, such as Ge hong, Zhangdaoling etc.; And some Jianghu people look-alike but no tail; the river's lake And of the great Chinese imperial heroes, martyrs, etc.These natural god, ancestors god and numerous fairy true, common formed a system who intensive strict Taoist department. This rank as realistic social hierarchy guarded around the fairy pedigree always "tao", adaption to the traditional theology, sectarian occur repeatedly, history change, which expresses the Taoist doctrine, with its profound greatly incisiveness. Although the ultimate aim of Taoism is idealism such like "no dead and be immortal" , but its idea of life contains happy life, independent spirit, nourishing of life and transcend feelings showing the target as loving life, enriching the life, sublimation life and beyond life.