Taoists do not address their prayers to a god, because Taoists believe that there is no god capable of responding to them. ... Taoist prayers are about focusing the practitioner's mind so that they are more in sync with the Tao. Considered in this way, a Taoist prays to himself.

Do you pray in Taoism?

There are Taoist priests who perform the complex prayer rituals, temple protocol and scripture memorization, which functions as a kind of prayer. But Taoists do not pray in the way Christians do, for example. They regard gods as embodiments of the principles of the Tao.

Does Taoism worship a god?

Taoist pantheon

Taoism does not have a God in the way that the Abrahamic religions do. ... In Taoism the universe springs from the Tao, and the Tao impersonally guides things on their way. But the Tao itself is not God, nor is it a god, nor is it worshipped by Taoists.