THE ORIENT PHILOSOPHY It is very likely that you who are reading this will not cross into the next century. This sentence maybe processed in any manner of ways by different people; many will process it with shock and a few others with stoic indifference depending of course on the personalities, situation, age, state of health, occupation, culture, and gender and so on. Strictly speaking though, the presented information should not matter much, because the journey is the destination after all. But then hope springs eternal. A recent scientific journal points out that the person who is likely to live well into the next century and depart aged at about 150 years is already born and up and about. It is also likely that this person may have been born in the orient and is presently being schooled in the oriental way of thinking and living. Why the orient? There are many varieties of Eastern thought: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism among others. Their common attribute i
