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How do zen practitioners balance the mix between Buddhism detachment and Taoism attachment?

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On this site there's a topic https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/2655/tao-te-ching-and-buddhism where one of the answers says: > A commentator of the Taoist philosopher Guo Xiang's work and a Taoist himself, I forget his name now (I can look it up) once wrote that - I paraphrase from memory - Buddhism and Taoism are diametrically opposed, because one seeks detachment from all existence, while the other seeks attachment to all existence. One seeks liberation by detaching from all phenomena, while the other seeks liberation by becoming one with all phenomena. The two paths seem to be the same, but really they are opposite. And in an answer to the topic [Are there many differences between Taoism and Buddhism?](https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/a/11302/13525) : > Buddhism seeks to transcend suffering while Taoism seeks unity with nature So they don't necessary mutually exclusive each other, and of course one can combine it in zen. But **how** do practitioners do that exactly? How do they seek detachment and attachment at the same time?
FYI: [Detachment (philosophy)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachment_(philosophy))
Asked by Ooker (635 rep)
Aug 20, 2018, 05:43 AM
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