Founders’ Eastern Admiration: Daoist Currents Flow West “One can distinguish the Chinese from Western philosophy by noting that in the former, philosophy is mainly a moral doctrine, in the latter mainly a rational doctrine.” ~ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The Enlightenment…
Daoism: The Formless Soul of America’s Founding Daoism flows through the veins of America’s founding like an unseen river—formless, eternal, the natural Way that birthed a nation of liberty without dogma. Far from a rigid “religion” demanding creeds or priests,…
Daoism: The Deist Soul of America’s Founding “If government can tax us, we are undone forever in Soul, Body and Estate. They can give Us, what Religion and Government they please; and do what they will, with our Property, Persons…
Daoist Echoes Mapped to Founders: The Invisible Way Shaping American Liberty Daoism’s principles—wu-wei, formless Way, anti-coercion, natural virtue, cyclical renewal—resonate through America’s founding like an undercurrent, mapped precisely to the Founders’ words, actions, and documents. Far from abstract coincidence, these…
Daoism: As American as Apple Pie Daoism is as American as apple pie. The Founding Fathers’ embrace of deism, reason over dogma, nature over priests, rejected Abrahamic myths repurposed for power and control, echoing the Dao’s timeless call to simplicity…
