Do You Think the Tao is God?

[Sunstone]

I think the Tao is kind of like the force.

The force is, at best, a very Westernized Tao.

 

[Ouroboros]

It is my personal opinon that star wars is full of spirtual references. I personally think that Yoda was a reference to the Jewish diety YHVH.

Yoda = the first two letters of the Jewish diety when spelled out YH.

Wasn't GL Jewish?

On any note, Star Wars is definitely a lot deeper than it seems to be on initial inspection. Maybe GL was enlightened and was trying to portray the secrets to all religions through the movie Star Wars. Strangers things have happened I guess lol.

Lucas was influenced by hero myths and such. He also did talk to Joseph Campbell (if I remember it right). So no, you're not far off track.

Similar things with Dune by Frank Herbert. Influenced by different religions, and even Islam.

Religious stories in the past were the sci-fi/fantasy stories of that time. People always have been, and probably always will be intrigued by stories about foreign and distant worlds.

 

[Straw Dog]

Well, now, understand that I'm in no way trying to hammer the concept of Tao into the Christian concept of God. I think both "God" and "Tao" are different expressions of the same concept of "that which transcends humanity and humanity's understanding." In fact, I may actually identify more with the Tao concept than I do with the standard God concept of an old man with a white beard, sitting on a cloud. The only possible exception would be that I believe that there is some kind of consciousness there that we don't particularly apprehend.

I see. I believe the simplest explanation is that it the very depths of our own dynamic consciousness.

Tao has different levels of meaning. I'm mostly concerned with the more practical meanings that I already attempted to explain.