# Taoism **Domain:** Chinese Philosophy / Religion / Contemplative Practice **Doc Type:** Tradition Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Taoism**, also written **Daoism**, names philosophical and religious traditions organized around the Dao: the way, course, or generative process through which the world unfolds. Its texts and practices emphasize attunement, transformation, naturalness, simplicity, non-forcing, and the limits of rigid conceptual distinctions. Taoism is not one timeless doctrine. Textual philosophy, ritual communities, meditation, internal cultivation, cosmology, medicine, and popular religious practice developed across different periods and institutions. ## Corpus Context The corpus draws particularly on the [[wiki/Tao Te Ching|Tao Te Ching]] and [[wiki/Wu Wei|Wu Wei]] to think about action, restraint, form, emptiness, timing, and systems that gain capability by reducing interference. ## See Also [[wiki/Zen|Zen]] · [[wiki/Nonduality|Nonduality]] · [[wiki/Formlessness|Formlessness]] · [[wiki/Silence|Silence]]