Taoism Explained 

I love your videos plz make a video on beliefs of Arya samaj.

Please make videos on other Eastern philosophies like Confucianism, Shintoism. I found thay Daoism is very close to Advaita philosophy of Hinduism. I think there are more commonalities between other Asian philosophies and Indic philosophies. I wanna know more.

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I'm happy you brought that up. One of the main difference between popular religions Vs Daoism/Confusionism/Buddhism/Hinduism I've always felt is that, there's no "must believe in us or you're going to hell" requirements. In Buddhism there's even a phrase roughly translated to "Buddha-fate" meaning are you compatible/destined to follow Buddhism. Its great if you have, it's ok if you don't, there's no requirement. Just live your life harmoniously and peacefully and everything's gonna be alright.

The real key to understanding something like Taoism is to first accept that the Tao possesses an internal harmony that can remain hidden from humans. Any sense of disharmony in the Tao is a failure of perception. That misperception can often lead humans to generate the very disharmony they perceive. If you can accept that your human perception is quite capable of failing, you can catch rare glimpses of the Tao. Revenge is a poison meant for others that we end up swallowing ourselves. Vengeance is a dark light that blinds all who seek it. The untroubled soul knows there is no justice in revenge. The untroubled soul knows that to seek vengeance is to seek destruction.

@@kelvinchan3826 With respect, I am fairly sure Buddhism says every sentient being has a ‘Buddha nature’, and all can become Buddhas, i.e., become enlightened.

Islam is an Asian religion and certainly does not do this.

I would say eastern thought is knowledge of the self whereas western thought gives knowledge of reality, the trick is to know both

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Slappy I don't know whether that was intentional or not, but that's arguably a much deeper question to ask in that context. Instead of asking what it is (which is pointless if it's unknowable) the better question to ask is "what is it like?" Because that question can be more reasonably answered

@@westernwizard13 But I guess that's exactly the way to practice it daoism by incorporating the 'how' in a day to day life. I mean trying to keep up with the flow... the dao.. that's 'how'

@@westernwizard13 I'm glad you got it.

WHY is the Dao?

@@tomboyraider1015 Where is the Dao? Has anyone seen it in the same room as the Universal Logos?

I think it is same as God in western culture. All religions reveal the same true but in different ways.

@@user-ky4jd8cm2o yes but I’m most of the religions those historical events are based on they’ve made it “you must believe this ONE specific way, or you’re going to hell forever” what I like more about eastern religions is they’re foundation is that of love and encouragement, while I find too many time western religions now base themselves in fear based dogma. Although that was not at all the intent of the original teaching

@@user-ky4jd8cm2o Yea but the biggest different is that God in western culture has a manlike feeling. Whereas Dao is basically a rule. For scientists, they can understand is as the function that will expalin everything in the universe which they've been trying to find but never could.

I think you’re missing something. Pretty sure the first line of the Dao de Jing is saying don’t mistake words (or concepts) for the reality they’re trying to represent. Explanations of ultimate reality are just words (so don’t start worshipping a book…)

故常无，欲以观其妙；常有，欲以观其徼。

Yin and Yang are Shiva/Purush and Parvati/Prakriti..It just Indian Philosophies taken from other schools of Sanatan Dharma.

Chinese traditional culture is a great culture. But because of the Communist Party speech control and all kinds of control. These cultural heritages are in danger

I have a lot of respect for Indian philosophy and Buddhist. But there’s something about the simplicity and brevity of Taoism. It’s not about sitting or thinking or doing or not doing it is the philosophy of water

I advise you to study the Bible and know the truth as it is in order to be saved.

@@rodicaraveca1858 there are plenty of ways to god. just because of where you’re from it happened to be Christianity. And that’s fine but shoving peoples faces in it is the reason people give religion a bad name.

it's a phrase that's more than 2000 years old and it's has been translated to pretty much every language out there that's spoken by a considerable number of speakers.

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one root in all human civilization, not surprised it at all.

@@tsdz2008 So what is the original root?

Accurate except the martial art part. They should have said akido not judo.

I disagree w your assessment. Taoism is > not< a religion. Case closed. Lao Tzu is a popular character in transmitting taoist wisdom. But hardly the only great ancient master to transmit this wisdom. Honestly this video and audio is a 3rd grade approach to taoism.

I've been explained by a Taoist that in Taoism it's believed that good people will be gods after they die and that the worst kind of people will be demons, but I forgot to ask what's gonna happen to the animals, the plants, and others after they die? Can you answer my question? Thanks a lot before 🙏🙏💪💪👍👍

​@@alvinocyber9687 that's not in the tao te ching. If that was said, it's a person's viewpoint, not Taoist transmission.

@@goatsplitter Tao Te Ching is just one of the Taoist scriptures which are very many. Pay attention to the video.

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That's my new excuse :D

At the least, if you attempted to use "I wasn't drunk, I was embracing wu-wei!" as an excuse, you'd probably successfully baffle whoever you were talking to.

@@jasonblalock4429 practice staying that while drunk

Exactly why the Greeks revered Dionysus :)

RubelliteFae could you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Listen to everyone, but follow none!

one thing you should know is Taoism is not a religion, it is simply the way of life people that practice Taoism, mostly Chinese descendants around the world are free thinkers practicing towards enlightenment, not bound by religion constraints this is why it is proven that Chinese people are successful businessman everywhere they go, they simply work with the environment they are in, not against it nor by force.

Next time you will find Buddhism and at the end you will study Hinduism

Happy for you. Finding meaning is always worth celebrating. I myself don't miss my faithless past.

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Yeah. The older traditional "jitsu/jutsu" arts are methods or techniques and are usually combat orientated. The "do" arts are newer and tend to be more sport driven because they teach the "way" or idea behind the martial art rather than the jutsu, which is killing a guy. That's why Jujitsu is a combat martial art while Judo is a sport.

Awesome comment

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the "to" in Japanese's Shinto have the same meaning tho lol.

其實義這個拆開來是王我的意思

I laughed so hard

@@haripriya8492 He also says that the dao doesn't care, which is kinda true if you are talking about in the western sense.. But The Dao loves and nourishes all things, but does not lord it over them. According to Lao Tzu. He also called Daoism a religion.. It is a philosophy, but people do treat it as a religion, so it can be either. You should treat it as a philosophy / a lesson and not actually label yourself it.

i dont get it

@@stza16 I recommend listening to Alan Watts.

Very apt.

is it true that in hindusism women should be burned alive when their husbands die?

ilgfalam this was never a part of any Hindu texts, it used to happened a few hundred years ago, but doesn’t anymore. It was pure superstition.

@@ilgfalam Sati Pradha was the name of the superstition. This was true and women were considered inferior and this was also mentioned in vedas so those who r saying that this was not part of Hinduism or Santana r just trying to portray you a false image . Ancient custom's were damn horrible.

@@vishnusahani2822 which vedic text or book are you referencing this from ? I am asking because I am assuming you have read all of them before coming here and claiming this.

@@vishnusahani2822 One who doesn't know shouldn't speak. A 10-year old knows it. Vedas nowhere mentions Sati (as practice), forget endorsing. Evidence is this verse from Atharvaveda - "Rise, come unto the world of life, O woman: come, he is lifeless by whose side thou liest. Wife hood with this thy husband was thy portion who took thy hand and wooed thee as a lover." This verse is clearly urging the widow to come back in world. Why would they say it if they were endorsing Sati. Gautama Buddha, greatest reformer ever born, opposed caste system and rituals of animal sacrificing. How could he miss this inhumane practice? So learn to shut your mouth up if you don't know a thing. This channel has very matured comment section, don't spit false things here

What a wholesome comment. A diamond in the rough of ever I’ve seen one

@@australiananarchist480 thank you.....but your reply seems exaggerated

@@RubelliteFae Can you recommend me books/ websites for this? The term in/out of accord seems particularly not useful to me... Also it's just another example of a contrast, so there seems to be little difference with the western culture.

Same friend. Well, I follow the philosophical aspects of Buddhism, but yes it has helped me greatly. I am agnostic still, but the compassion for others that the Dharma teaches keeps me a better person. I naturally anger easily, so trying to see the best in others first is a great virtue. When I first began practicing the Dharma, I tried to spend a whole regular day of my life being completely compassionate towards others, even people at work that really bother me. It took a lot of effort at first, but began to show me the benefits quickly. Suddenly, I found my coworkers smiling more towards me and generally being more willing to talk. The Dharma has been a great thing for me. Good luck on your journey!

So you Finally doubt your Dao

i’m Thelemic but researching Sikhism, Taoism, & Secular Humanism really has me wanting to find what best describes me but it’s hard because i also disagree with a lot of things in some of these religions. it’s hard to find one that has the positive qualities i want but doesn’t prohibit things that cross the line for me

@@nealdee1755 Every religion is a philosophy if you don’t take it as gospel. Eastern religions don’t attempt to preach but rather advocate a self discovery of truths.

Do some research on Buddhism and Hinduism, reincarnation is very well documented and also Hindu cosmology had a lot of discoveries that now turning out to be truth. Few thousand years ago, Hindus created the shape of the universe, and it looks identical to the one now scientists have created.

@@dominiknowaczyk9633 I didn't know scientists knew the shape of the universe..

Man I would be impressed if they they managed to pull off a good video about the YiJing.

Religion taoism is a religion. The one you talk about is philosophy taoism.

You can see many anarchist ideas in Laozi's work. But fundamentally they still believed in the idea of a king/emperor. But still so fascinating to see those ideas being discussed 2000 years ago.

@homeless man's Bertholdt I see where you're coming from, though I can easily see it swing precisely the other way. The 'the Earth and Heaven are reflections' and its acceptance of the hierarchy on Earth as the heavenly hierarchy, as well as its emphasis on 'just rolling with it', which can be easily interpreted as 'don't resist or question the status quo', which fundamentally clases with the idea of all hierarchies must be questioned and torn down if they fail to legitimize themselves.

@@CogitoEdu it depends how daoist see the mandate of heaven.

@Pan Darius Kairos We can't say its in charge, there's lots of philosophers at that time.(Just like ancient greece)

@マナンナンアナメ in isolation yeah I'd agree with you but just like other Chinese/east Asian philosophies they tend to dynamically affect each other and build on top of each other. Hence why provided mandate of heaven as an example and how daoist view it. In theory the mandate of heaven is seen as a way for the masses to question authority.

It is? How so not disagreeing, I'm just curious as I read a lot of wuxia in my teens.

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God is one and very intrested in current affair and history I am not lye experiance experiment

Hahhhaahhaaa. I know what do u mean! People r explaining everything what they hv nt seen yet and they will explain god also!

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God loves every one truth don't see hard sorrow or grief in heaven

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India ,china when you become again become don't attack or Europe or usa God love usa more because I do

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Spirituality u mean lol much love to all positive ying yang never negative altho we keep the balance

Thank you :D

While Laotze book teaches us that yin and yang are two inseparable force but he tend to hint us that he favour more towards the yin principle. Lol. While the emptiness (yin) of the claypot allow the water to be filled the solid claypot (yang) helps to hold the water in. Yin-yang are 2 inseparable principle.

“We work with the substantial, but the emptiness is what we use”

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I would say it qualifies as a religion. Like Buddhism with Hindu it was designed to coexist with an existing religion and had a largely philosophical root but it makes spiritual and theological (ie religious) assertions, eg that a spiritual energy called pneuma pervades and comprises all things and forms, and that we are all part of a panentheistic deity called the Logos. All religions were expected to coexist and acknowledge each other in Greece and later Rome, which was a big reason there was so much friction with Christians- While ironically the Roman Catholic (or "universalist," a term that in religious terms generally means "all-inclusive," in the manner of the ancient Greeks) church would later predominate by accepting Pagan practices and making Pagan gods part of their "pantheon" of saints and angels and worshiping Deus (aka Zeus/Dionysus/Jupiter) instead of the Jewish god Adonai (who in religious practice they only pay lip service to, while taking Dionysian communion and worshiping the father and son (Zeus and Dionysus) as two parts of the whole and calling God a variant of Dyeus and so on), early Christians refused to so much as acknowledge the Roman gods, which was seen as equivalent to atheism. But if you compare Stoicism to its contemporary schools of philosophy, it makes much more religious assertions, even dealing with the nature of god(s).

@@RubelliteFae Pneuma is the fiery metaphysical "substance" that flows through all things and that all things (or their shapes) are made from, and literally means "breath" or "air." It makes no sense to say "it IS material, it IS NOT spiritual" because, like prana and qi (which mean "breath" or "air"), physical matter is seen as a coarser or lower expression and spirit as a finer or higher expression of the same substance. The Logos is not a deity in the sense of Zeus or Vishnu. It is a "deity" in the sense of Brahma, a uniting universal "mind" that pervades all things and yet which all things are a part of. That humans have the capacity for reason is because we have a larger share of it (or we have a greater share of it because of our capacity for reason; there is actually no cause or effect there, the two are synonymous), but more than the Dao (which it can also be seen as analogous to) it is treated as a panentheistic united mind (or in more modern terms, a superorganism), a deity above deities or the entity that is the universe. Elohim means gods (plural, or lords) and the Tetragrammaton, IHVH (or iod-heh-vav-heh, I'm typing on a phone right now so not even gonna try getting the hebrew down right), is shorthand for the phrase "I am that I am," a cagey non-identification that God gave for Himself. There is no recorded name of God anywhere in scripture, though orthoodox Jews and certain types of Christians self-censor any of His titles (eg G-d) as if they were the true name. The closest we have to actual "names" are Adonai ("my highest lords") and El Shaddai (God(as in deity) Almighty). There are a couple more like "Tsevaoth" ("hosts" or "armies," often paired with the other names to demonstrate that He is the God of Hosts or a Host of Gods or a God of Gods). Orthodox Jews will not speak any of them and either censor the names or call Him "the name" to avoid accidentally speaking any "name" of God. I chose "Adonai" because of all these names, it is the one used most frequently, and it is, rather importantly, not IHVH- transliterated as Iehovah or Jehova and conflated with or also called Jove, a name for Jupiter/Zeus. It is just as well that you didn't comment on the Pagan and specifically Dionysian/Jovial influences on Catholicism, because something tells me you would have said some things that were very wrong (or at least poorly-informed). When I say Stoics made more religious assertions, I actually mean "theological" assertions, not "metaphysical/spiritual" assertions. For example, that the true nature of "the gods" was as higher beings than us yet lower beings than the Logos, of which both we and they are parts, that there was a singular higher power in the form of the universal Logos at all, that fate is the result of an ultimate plan that must ultimately be good for all things overall (because the planner is selfish, and everything is part of the planner) and, most bizarre and religious of all, that the world would necessarily end in an enormous conflagration that would consume the universe as the pneuma all returned to Logos, before beginning again, a process that had occurred many times already (which stands out as being bizarre, speculative, prophetic and logically detached from the core thread of Stoic beliefs and assertions). Many people today read it as a behavioural manual and think "oh, pneuma and logos are silly terms, but they weren't ENTIRELY off even if they were kind of platonists with the whole things are made out of shapes which are made of pneuma thing" and think that's the end of it, but I think it definitely qualifies as religion (especially when, perhaps hearkening to their Cynic "devil may care" roots, Stoics readily tackled these sticky religious topics that other philosophers seemed to shy away from, probably on account of philosophers who delved into them having a nasty habit of being executed for blasphemy). (Also since you seem to have read or heard at least a bit more than the surface level I'm sure you already knew this, but apart from El, El Shaddai and the Tetragrammaton, the "names" of God are all plural. This has been interpreted in a lot of ways, of course. My favourite is "God is just spooky and speaks from many places at once" because it's the most conceptually textured interpretation imo, the one that feels the best to "hold" and "turn over" in your "hands.")

There are a lot of similarities between Daoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism. It's so interesting to learn about them all :D

@@CogitoEdu I was just going to say it. All Eastern philosophies have so much in common.

@@puneetmishra4726 sort of like the relationship between christianity, islam, and judaism, i dare say, no philosophy or religion is born in a vacuum.

@@joshuapartridge5092 Correct. Also ancient India and China had very deep trade relation via silk road. May be these ideas got exchanged and evolved. A piece of information, a Chinese travellar and pilgrims, Hiuen Tsang was one of the best student of ancient Nalanda University. He travelled all the way from East China to south India and vice versa.

İt is also similar to the interpretation of Allah in Islam unlike commonly believed the way Islam and judeo Christian tradition have a radically different way of describing what God is

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What is good will turn bad, and what is bad will turn good again. I guess Taoism has live up to its name.

How come I never hear the same smooth-brained diatribe about how local religious customs "corrupted the philosophy" with shinto?

@@andro7862 because, believe it or not, Japan is one single country, and China isn't. In Lao Tzu's time (Mid Chun Qiu era), China was 14 different states, with cultures, laws, doctrines, philosophy... different from each other. Take Indian for example, Hinduism takes a huge range of variations as you go across India