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To venerate the Heavens and the Earth.
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To worship God and revere all Holy Beings* .
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To be patriotic, loyal, and responsible.
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To be of virtuous character and uphold the Rules of Propriety.
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To carry out the filial duties to one’s parents.
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To honor and respect one’s teachers and elders.
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To be faithful to friends.
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To live harmoniously with neighbors.
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To rid oneself of bad habits and evil, and to pursue good thoughts and deeds.
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To expound upon the Five Bonds of Human Relationships* and the Eight Cardinal Virtues*.
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To preach the main principles of the founders of the five world religions.
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To obey and respectfully practice the Four Ethical Principles*, the Three Mainstays of Social Order*, and the Five Constant Virtues*.
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To cleanse the mind, purify the soul and eliminate unclean thoughts.
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To cultivate one’s true-self* by utilizing untruths*.
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To recover one’s original Buddha-nature*.
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To continually develop one’s innate wisdom and natural abilities until perfection is achieved.
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To establish and reach one’s own goals and to help others do so.
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To transform the world into a peaceful, honest, and orderly society.
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To enlighten the minds of people and enable them to return to a state of benevolence.
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By pursuing this path, to bring the world into a state of equality, fraternity, harmony, welfare, and justice – the World of Great Harmony.
The Purpose of Tao*
Tao - means God, Truth, path, way.
Holy Beings - Buddhas, Sages, Immortals, Saints, Angels, and Deities in cosmos.
Filial piety – To joyfully love, honor, respect, support, be obedient to one’s parents, and also to let them live worry-free lives.
The Five Bonds of Human Relationships – between sovereign and minister; parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, and friend and neighbor.
The Eight Cardinal Virtues – filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty/honesty, truthfulness/trustfulness, propriety, righteousness, integrity/purity, and shamefulness.
The Four Ethical Principles – propriety, righteousness, integrity/purity, and shamefulness.
The Three mainstays of Social Order – between sovereign and minister, parent and child, husband and wife.
The Five Constant Virtues – benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and truthfulness/trustfulness.
True-self – The true, the real; Buddha-nature, thus always, eternally so; unchanging or immutable.
Untruths – Unreal, false, fallacious. In I-Kuan Tao, Taoism, and Buddhism, it means nothing is real and permanent; all is temporal, phenomenal, empirical, fallacious, and unreal.
Buddha-nature: Bodhi-nature, true-self, real-self; the absolute as eternal existence
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