The Taoists denied the validity of the material world and sought to achieve a changeless physical form. They regarded life as a phenomenon produced by cosmic forces of change, and saw birth and death purely as products of nature. "
道家否定現象界，追尋一種不變的本體，他們視生命為宇宙變化的現象，生命的出生與歸復是一種自然表現。」