Daoism

Daoism is the Chinese philosophy of the Dao, the way of nature, which values spontaneity, simplicity and acting without forcing (wuwei).

Its classic texts are the Daodejing, traditionally ascribed to Laozi, whose historicity is uncertain, and the Zhuangzi, both from roughly the fourth and third centuries BCE. In the third and fourth centuries CE Wang Bi and Guo Xiang wrote influential commentaries in the movement known as Xuanxue. Daoism names both a philosophy and a later religious tradition, and how the two relate is debated. On this site Daoist answers appear on environmental ethics (3.3.2), ontology, the origin of things, consciousness, space and meaning in life.