Heaven DAO Temple CEMETERY
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The purpose of Dao (Tao)
1.To venerate the Heavens and the Earth.2.To worship God and revere the Zhu-Tian-Shen-Sheng.3.To be patriotic, loyal, and responsible.4.To be of virtuous character and uphold the Rules of Propriety.5.To carry out the filial duties to one’s parents.6.To honor and respect one’s teachers and elders.7.To be faithful to friends.8.To live harmoniously with neighbors9.To rid oneself of bad habits and evil, and to pursue good thoughts and deeds.
10. To expound upon the Five Bonds of Human Relationships and the EightCardinal Virtues.11. To preach the main principles of the founders of the five world religions.
12. To obey and respectfully practice the Four Ethical Principles, the ThreeMainstays of Social Order, and the Five Constant Virtues.13. To cleanse the mind, purify the soul and eliminate unclean thoughts.
14. To cultivate one’s true-self by utilizing untruths.15. To recover one’s original Buddha-nature.16. To continually develop one’s innate wisdom and natural abilities untilperfection is achieved.17. To establish and reach one’s own goals and to help others do so.18. To transform the world into a peaceful, honest, and orderly society.19. To enlighten the minds of people and enable them to return to a state ofbenevolence.20. By pursuing this path, to bring the world into a state of equality, fraternity,harmony, welfare, and justice – the World of Da-Tong (Dah-Torng).
The World of Da-Tong (Dah-Torng or Perfect Harmony)
When the Great Dao (Tao, perfect order) prevails, the world is like a Commonwealth State shared by all, not a dictatorship.Virtuous, worthy, wise and capable people are chosen as leaders. Honesty and trust are promoted, and good neighborliness cultivated.All people respect and love their own parents and children, as well as the parents and children of others.The aged are cared for until death; adults are employed in jobs that make full use of their abilities; and children are nourished, educated, and fostered.Widows and widowers, orphans and the old without children, the disabled and the diseased are all well taken care of.Every man and woman has an appropriate role to play in society and in the family.They hate to see resources lying idle or cast away, yet they do not necessarily keep them for themselves.They hate not to make use of their abilities, yet they do not necessarily work for their own self-interest.Thus intrigues and conspiracies do not arise, and thievery and robbery do not occur; therefore doors need never be locked.This is the ideal world – a perfect world of equality, fraternity, harmony, welfare, and justice. This is the world called “Da-Tong (Dah-Torng)”.
