the Respectful in Theravada Buddhism and the Respectful in Taoism

Abstract

The research has three objectives   1)  to study the teaching about the respectfulness in Theravada Buddhism,  (2)  to study the teaching about the respectfulness in Taoism,  (3)  to study the comparison of the respectfulness in Theravada Buddhism and in Taoism.

The research results pointed out that the respectfulness in Therevada Buddhism is based on right learning of the culture and tradition, then causing the respectfulness in family and society, indicating the reality of life.

The respectfulness in Taoism teaches the realization and understanding of the respectfulness created by training and learning the nature of life, the society, environment, sympathy just like the softness of water which cultivates lives but can erode the stone. 

By comparing the similarity and difference of the respectfulness in Theravada Buddhism and in Taoism, it is similar in meaning but different in that the respectfulness in Theravada Buddhism is testified by stories and suttas, has  ideas, theories, roles, functions, practices and systematic aims and is easy to understand whereas Taoism emphasizes the respectfulness to the nature and then good feeling and understanding will automatically occur. There will naturally be respectfulness at the beginning of training accordingly.