{"id":371,"date":"2013-11-21T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/taoism-confucianism-houston-smith-introduces.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:21:09","slug":"taoism-confucianism-houston-smith-introduces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/taoism-confucianism-houston-smith-introduces.html","title":{"rendered":"Taoism &#038; Confucianism: Houston Smith Introduces"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SAy4ug6PMM8?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Huston Smith, the religious scholar and author of the widely read book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Worlds-Religions-Wisdom-Traditions\/dp\/0062508113\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The World\u2019s Religion<\/a>,\u201d discusses Taoism and Confucianism in this 1996 Bill Moyers Special called \u201cThe Wisdom of Faith.\u201d \u00a0 He eloquently explains how the teachings\u2013Confucianism, Taoism, and <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhism<\/a> influence the daily lives of the Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Smith notes that all Chinese call on Confucianism for state occasions and parades, on Toaism for illness because Taoists masters know about potions, and on the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> tradition to prepare them for death.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first part of a six part series. Here is the<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/He-y0gRN1ls\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> link to part 2<\/a>, to<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/lsFBcQJC2og\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"> part 3<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/UZPkEHDKe64\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">part 4<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/XhHxiUSGOTw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">to 5<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/7im2Uj2vlj0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">and 6.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huston Smith, the religious scholar and author of the widely read book, \u201cThe World\u2019s Religion,\u201d discusses Taoism and Confucianism in this 1996 Bill Moyers Special called \u201cThe Wisdom of Faith.\u201d \u00a0 He eloquently explains how the teachings\u2013Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism influence the daily lives of the Chinese. 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