EASTERN PHILOSOPHY: Wu Wei 

i know man tell me about it

How about approaching the way with meditation. All my best wishes.

I love you. You are a wonderful being.

Agree. I’m in this situation as well.

Remember to breath, let go of all expectation and simply be. It does wonders for me

That's interesting, I'm always skeptical of foreign things taught by non native people

Chinese people learn taoism in school yet don't understand it in adulthood. Surprised many I've spoken to know about it but don't understand

@@user-ch6uw4pf2x It really is explained perfectly. I grasped wu wei’s meaning 20 years ago and this is one of the best explanations I’ve ever heard.

I imagine the Christians over there are better then ours as well. they have to believe in it in opposition of cultural norms. those people believe. The ones we get use the title to not have to work on themselves. I'm guessing its the same over there?

Exactly! That's the point.

bruce lee was quoting laotzu !

Water is the substance that flushes turds down the toilet.

Become The TEAPOT

Become the hat. Be MAGA my friend. I meditate by watching 2016 election night reruns. "Complicated business."

Yes, more please. Americans sure as hell don't get enough of it.

+Fernando Jurado True.

+Maria Mison eastern philosophy- jainism

+Ankur Jain I think that'd be good if a video is made on Jainism. I haven't known much about Jainist philosophy compared to other disciplines.

+Maria Mison filthy weaboo

Not very practical if the fall is 150ft.

Tubeite if the fall is 150ft it wouldn't matter what you did. What's your point?

Had a very similar experience avoiding injury from a fall by applying technique from my Aikido practice. Having not practiced for a few years now I forget the name of the technique, but it is basically falling on ones back in a fluid rolling motion. Without going into too much detail I probably would have gotten hurt pretty bad without it.

@@Tubeite That's like saying having a healthy diet and exercising is pointless if you get hit by a truck.

TaijiQuan is good I use to do it but I like Qi Gong.

You find the universal DAO the living energy consciousnesses stream of life or being i e. God for Christians "living God" hidden in the fabric of reality always there.... DAO the unseen forces that amount to universal God minds... Its all the same, you find the same being just different interpretation for it... Its timeless, there is no time in it, it is the fabric of reality itself. One with it. You find them in both feminine 👠👠 👗 collective many feminine but aggressive tones, and One singular Masculine 👞👞♂️ Energy, soft and drawing almost sensitive like Christ but rough as Satanic could be if you step out of line, it's an instant shift in energies.... I'd say "God" or source shows up as the only Male authority 👞👞♂️ accompanied by a bunch of feminine entourage presence that do the work of roughing up for him 👇kinda like a panel ... Some are nicer and others more rough. Then they merge into One singular mind, or one single energy source where you can't tell them apart but they're all there, they come apart separate as individuals then form thought as One consciousness unable to tell which is which or what is what. They become One thought. Think of it as, your eyes being the portal to the mind.... Energy flows in a stream of energy like water 🌊 then you're the vessel body hollow, still here, but empty of form or self or being, Now you can see and sense fabric of reality as part of this vessel body, and only Spirit (consciousness) exists... Because it is moving timelessly with the fabric of reality, so the only thing that remains is your essence.... Your mind goes into Hawkeye absorbs the fabric itself vast ... Flying you go mentally or in spirit hard to say or tell... Fly 🕊️ fasterrrrrrr now you're embedded into the fabric itself, ta da, you're timeless like magic ✨ I think the Christiana call it, "dreadful to come into the hands ✋✋ of the living God" lol 😂 it's living alright.... It is conscious everywhere.... Feeling and seeing and living everything... 😅he sends his hello 👋

Good one!

The Wultimate Wei of life

He knows da wei

The mind shall vanquish the sword - Sima Yi (Dynasty Warriors)

This is wei too good

Very inspiring. Thank you!

But what if you see that the river will drown most of the people? If enough leafs gather together you can change the direction of how the river flows ;)

***** I guess that misunderstanding/frustration is also something that we can avoid to be created. Creating this seperation will only feed suffering and hate against each other.

+mrvrabeca LEL

+Nathan Ricard Exactly! Fighting against the current would not only be futile, but frustrating as well.

Exactly. I feel like I've been like this naturally, if anything, almost everyone around me tried to push me away from this kind of life. People perceived my calmness about watching life unfold in front of me with little to no effort as something bad, even after it lead me to great things I would have never achieved if I tried hard. Ironically, none of these people had achieved what I had and yet ... I listened to them. I listened to the "if you don't have a plan, you're part of someone else's plan" the "you should plan your future now so you don't suffer later" so, I resisted myself and tried to actually have a plan and work "hard" to achieve it. I saw everyone around me working "hard" so I thought, it's not fair that I had success with minimal effort, I must try "hard" too, I must worry about "future" too. Fuck that... After about 5 years of "trying hard", all it had caused me is pain, suffering, complete exhaustion and burn out. I felt like a complete failure like it's impossible to control life. Here I am today watching a video about Wu-Wei, realising I was on the right path before and I let people sway me from it. This is a point were life is bringing me back to where I was. In fact, this is a very important moment of my life, I'm going back to going with the flow of my life, I'll stop "having a plan" and trying to bend reality to achieve it, fuck that man.

@@yuzan3607 Im exactly the same boat as you. During my better years (16-22, Im 26) I was following this way of thinking without knowing it. I always thought to go with the flow and do the best you can with what you have, basically make the most of what you got. And it worked super well, I didn't have to try that hard to succeed. I agree with the feeling of "its not fair for other to try so hard and not get the same result as my minimal effort". A lot of my peers believed that was a lazy way of going about my studies and life. I let that get to me and began changing due to peer pressure and societal pressure. Obviously, even friends started saying it to me, family as well. I believed them and paid it with 4 years of my life where I "tried hard" and got nothing but fat, stressed, mentally ill, an addiction to weed, and a marriage that was falling apart. That started a cascade of problems that until NOW Im getting around to resolving. It truly is an amazing thing and I take it down as a huge lesson learned. Much love and compassion to you!

True, instead of letting the ego decide what career we want based on needs of status, ambition, financial gain... we can allow the true self to spontaneously manifest and flow with the Dao, guess it takes a lot of faith to do this and trust that the bills will be paid though

This.

U can do it.. yes not all d time but u can for atleast 20 mins to an hr daily.. just take that time whenever it works to just relax n BE.. every morning with my mug of tea n toast, i enjoy some short meditation or music with d phone on airplane mode😝 n realize that a relaxed start to my day, at my pace, really helps a lot... don't let d world dictate yr time or peace of mind! 🎵

Chapter 41 in Daodejing talks of this; quoting Lok Sang Ho's translation: "Those whose mind shines with the Dao Appear to be dull and stupid. Those who make progress along the Dao Appear to be falling behind."

@@hnaku8748 interesting

Wu Wei best describes how I've lived my life, though I don't subscribe to any belief system. If I set a goal in the morning to change the breaks on my truck, I get the tools together, go over the procedure and begin. If I run into a series of obstacles, I let it go, set it aside and choose something else to do with my time that day. I work on the obstacles and return to the task another day. This approach to life caused me problems with my marriage, as my wife took a polar opposite approach to life. She would put her head down and stubbornly drive forward determined to succeed. I saw her unhappy and frustrated a lot. She felt my approach was lazy and would lead to never getting anything done. Ultimately, she divorced me saying we were incompatible, and she couldn't be happy with me. I have two masters programs, a teaching credential, an administration credential and was a county commissioner. I wrote several million dollars worth of grants over my career in education which created jobs in my community and moved families from dependence on government assistance to independence. I own three timber properties in two states, own , maintain, repair and operate heavy equipment as well as a sawmill. I build furniture. I built my first house starting in 1981. I'm building another now. My former wife left me for another man, then left him for yet another, and I'm told she will be leaving that one as well soon. She has a vision of what she wants her life to look like, and she has spent her life chasing that vision and trying to force it into reality, her perceived reality. I have always let life be. I put forth effort every day, but have no expectations. What will come is what will come, and I accept that.

Drunk on the Dao.

Some suggestions?

Your dad has good taste.

Were my favourites as a child.

Lol

nah you're just lazy

@@user-rd6uc2sf6i i'm wondering if you understood the concept of wu wei or if you're doubting this comment

@@saga_oneil 🤙

@@NoName-gr8px ? 🤔

Haha I thought of Bumi immediately too!

hola! sabes si existe un video que explique los 85 jings? gracias.

Another synchronicity I need to watch this show!

My friend fell of the back of a motor bike when drunk not even a broken bone

@M Farraday I agree. That's the one thing they could improve.

This is a representation of Wi Wei 😄

@@wowwowwow185 that is good to hear :)

Its Alain de Botton, isnt it? Not sure if I have his name right, but I agree.

You might want to check out this one: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/221421/trying-not-to-try-by-edward-slingerland/9780770437633/

+Viktor Johansson if you are interested in eastern philosophy i suggest you try out Alan Wats

+Viktor Johansson If you feel brave, The Way of Zen provides an incredible balance of knowledge and accesibility. The Suzukis are more knowledgeable, but less accesible, and lots of pulp on the subjet are more accesible but lack context or depth. I know Daoism is not Zen, but Zen would not be without Daoism. The concept of wuwei is central to both and quite extensively visited in that book. Source: Read 4-6 books on Zen and Daoism.

Raven Garibaldi Gaston Alejandro Trivi miner10022 Thank you for the suggestion! I will check it out.

+Viktor Johansson A slightly convoluted workaround but whenever I want to look up some of the more obscure paintings and stills in videos like these I just go into fullscreen, take a screenshot and then drag the image into Google's 'search by image' function. You can usually find out the pieces name and author relatively easily that way and find a few tangential rabbit-holes to go down from there. Not ideal and a little messy but works for videos that don't have description sources et al

+fernando Sick existential advice bro

+Micah Buzan > “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” -- Bruce Lee That does sound very Taoist.

I don't get it. What's becoming the cup mean?

musardus I think it means: adapt to the situation.

To "become the cup" would mean to be open and accepting, let "the water" flow into you

You don't need videos ...everything you need is within you if you listen carefully.

+ben crompton Aikido is as well..Using the opponents energy against them.

@@apextroll Akido doesn't work

i madeittothelibraryyay! You should train with Endo Shihan at least once, maybe you’d change your mind 😉

@@chaosdweller Aikido doesn't work for you, because you tell yourself it doesn't work

I've never seen it in MMA not once

If I did that, I would never get anything done.

How? The moment you realize is the moment it's over

Wow, I love this! Thank you for that connection!

Taoism works especially well when being attacked by an angry Grizzly bear. "Be the lunch. Be the lunch. Be the lunch. . . ."

ummm "quee?"

are you sure? I have trouble figuring out whom he's talking about most of times

The Chinese words were all pronounced in a heavily English accented manner. “Wooo wey”

lol. that's a way of saying you lazy.

Samuel RF thanks?

Samuel RF i have to vehemently disagree with you here buddy, i break my back every day fighting my multiple illnesses, including C-PTSD, and i do not have the luxury of being lazy.

~Animal Jam Fanatics~ the C in C-PTSD stands for "complex", which means that the person underwent multiple traumatic events. i literally went through hundreds of traumatic events.

How did you master it? Tell us!

Don Juan :)

Omg yes! and Takuan too

@@RaccoonLTD *who's them?*

And Old Samurai and his friend/máster, wich had his own philosophy for life too.

@@RaccoonLTD & wat is that

that's because it's already famous in America and the world...And Most people think it's from China....so it does count

It doesn't matter what krishna ,buddha ,mahavira etc said if v haven't experienced it ourselves, and if we had , it doesn't matter who said it.

That is the correct definition of Kung Fu because it is not only based on the martial art.

Kung Fu is deeply influenced by Taoist philosophy. What the Chinese created is related to Taoist philosophy.

What?