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Figure of Taoism
The Eight Immortals.
Humans who attained immortality and kept their personalities — crossing the sea each with their own trick; folk heroes of the tradition.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Eight Immortals are a cheerful, ragged set — a beggar with an iron crutch, a woman with a lotus, a drunk, a flautist, a scholar — and their popularity comes from the fact that none of them is respectable. They are the tradition's argument in cartoon form: immortality is attained by the marginal, the disreputable, and the odd rather than by officials. They appear on everything from temple murals to restaurant screens, usually crossing the sea, each using their own object rather than a shared boat.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
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Shiva — destroyer and regenerator.
Hinduism
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Ordination.
Buddhism · rite
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The soul is liberated by its own effort.
Jainism · core tenet
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Lent — the forty days.
Christianity · rite
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The greater struggle.
Islam · precept
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Haumai is the disease; the five thieves are the symptoms.
Sikhism · core tenet
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