“How to maximize the Taos that animates You. Taoists want to ensure that the Ch'i quota of life is used to the best of its ability... If the normal quotient can be increased and finally if cosmic energy can be harvested. (blacksmith page 207). Taoism rejects self-affirmation and competition. Taoists are not interested in worldly things. Taoists are not aggressive and side with nature. Taoists believe that being alive is good. In Taoism there is no specified deity and the afterlife is not explained in great detail