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Is reincarnation or afterlife spoken about in any Taoist texts?

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Some feel the texts do suggest reincarnation occurs. Personally I think that line would mean that one hasnt left life undone, no regrets , and embraces the peace ,,the end of tribulation ,,it represents.

Whether at a crazy party, or in a fray, or well worn with age, one might be ready to go home an put their feet up.

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"When death comes, you are ready" definitely is a wrong translation .

 

In the times when TTJ  was written , Buddhism had not entered China ;  and there ,originally ,was  no afterlife or incarnation concept in Taoism . 

 

Translating " 没身不殆"   as   "When death comes, you are ready" is   wrong. It should be : " For your whole life, you will then be free of hazards and misfortunes "  as after having yourself  immersed in Tao.

 

It would be roughly 700 years later that those concepts gradually came into the Chinese lives..

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"When death comes, you are ready" definitely is a wrong translation .

  

Yes

 

 

 

In the times when TTJ  was written , Buddhism had not entered China ;  

 

 Yes

 

 

and there ,originally ,was  no afterlife or incarnation concept in Taoism .

 

No, this is incorrect. There definitely was a cult of ancestors right from the origin of the Chinese culture, which of course includes Taoism. http://www.ushistory.org/civ/9b.asp

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Great size and weight of branches, tends to hasten the demise of a tree,. limbs break , trunks split , rot sets in. Bonsai or a pollard can often outlive wild forms.

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