The Philosopher Of Change & Paradox 

Heraclitus's philosophy sounds a lot like Daoism. His definition of "logos" is like "Dao", and the union of opposites is like yin-yang (complementary opposites). Daoist are also interested in the dialectic/paradoxical nature of change and transformation, its connection to the Dao. Unlike Heraclitus, the Daoists venerates water over fire. Water flows in the path of least resistance and is ultimately not obstructed. Water may be soft, but can smoothen stones and carry everything on it.

I'm in my sixties. As a young man, I studied philosophy. The first semester held the course 'ancient philosophy', given by a professor who had just published his translation and commentary on the 'fragments' (no, not Charles Kahn, wished it were). I instantly knew this held something, something hidden, something I had to understand. I did not. It took me years, decades, to really see the depth, to experience the oneness, to see how deeply Heraclitus connects with other wisdom traditions like the Indian and daoist, and how little and poor the understanding of my professor was. From an Indian perspective, it takes almost uncountable lives to come to this understanding. You must be a very old soul, my young brother. God bless you.

I am a classic student and this is the perfect explanation that I have seen so far. Thank you so much and keep doing eye opening videos like this (beleive me I have never ever commented on a youtube video before)😅

when someone truly sees the world as it is --all come to this conclusion.

Most honest video I've ever experienced on U tube, especially toward the end. This is a gem 💎 worth mining indeed.

6:04 the road up is the road down: beacause it’s about breaking yourself is the same as building yourself up. What breaks in you is your ego, your idea about an identity you may have. So by breaking yourself you become who you truly are, SOURCE, FIRE 🔥.

Emotion + Reason (repeated) = Wisdom … Ty for posting this vid 🔁

What a fantastic piece. Watched a lot of your stuff over and over and this is one of my favourites. Just clicks with me for some reason. Love the work you are putting out

Really great video. It really points out the importance of looking deep inside ourselves and emphasizes my practice of meditation.

Man, I love you! I hope you become the next veritasium

Great video!

Thank you for providing music credits!

This is THE BEST!!

Beautiful stuff❤❤ thanks so much

U r literally amazing ❤️✨🤌. I have watched multiple numbers of videos to understand heraclitus philosophy but then I got this and literally appreciate your work that how u connect each n every topic without leaving a single piece of his philosophy. Amaaaazzzinggggg...... 🥴✨

nice video and nice explanation

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this video should seriously have more views than this. this wisdom in this video is pure gold. it does make sense though how the path for those seeking the deeper truths of life's mysteries is rarely walked.

Very nice edits! Congrants

Glad I found this channel 😊

Logos really resonates for me with the first words of 'Dao te ching'. "Dao that can be told is not ethernal Dao. Name that can be named is not the ethernal name. " It's a reminder that words are only tools to focus perspective on subject. But subjects have endless depth, and to truly understand them we need to look beyond language logic and words.

3:14 the fire 🔥 was the highest for Heraclitus, and it has a consciousness of it’s own: ”Logos doesn’t speak but gives signs” That is: Logos is to be found inside fire 🔥 which is VISION! A mute consciousness. The prince of air is Saturn/Satan. Though the word ”Logos” is interpreted as ”the word” in Genesis. The conceptual belongs to the prince of air, that is ego, the ”sleeping”. This is my interpretation

The absorption and emission of light is spontaneous, continuous change! The continuous movement of positive and negative charge, Union of Opposites!

Thank you 🙏🏼🕊️

I didn't really begin to look into Heraclitus, until I read Marcus Aurelius 'meditations', where he mentioned him. Some of his quotes were familiar, but now I really love his philosophy

Great video. Not long, not short. Just right. Timeless occult-like fragments of film. -RM Sounds

And now every student of existence must interpret this video in their own sense of truth. Always translate everything you watch and hear into your own sense of truth.

Excellent work brother. Heraclitus was the first Philosopher I read about 30 years ago and in my view was only ever topped by Alfred North Whitehead - a far greater mind than any you mention in your description. Process Philosophy which is the only philosophy that accords with Non Duality can be seen as an elaboration and refinement of the fragments of Heraclitus. I'm always amazed that so many otherwise intelligent people put Nietzsche in the same league as Jung and Heidegger, when he was such a die hard dualist and therefore unavoidably wrong about everything haha One cannot be said to be a great thinker when one is stuck in the most basic error of thinking there is i.e. dualism. I consider Heraclitus on a par with Pythagoras, Lao Tzu, the Buddha and the Christ as one of the greatest Non Dual Sages of all time. I would like to upload your video to my channel - very small only 193 subs - but will only do so with your permission of course. Please have a look at let me know if you are Ok with me uploading your work. I will of course give you full credit and link back to your channel www.youtube.com/@StopSufferingSchool Thanks again for the great video, so happy to see Heraclitus getting the respect he deserves 😃

Incredible work. Heraclitus' fragments, unsurprisingly, remind me strongly of Hermetic philosophy. I would love to your take on The Kybalion.

To understand wisdom teachers and wisdom literature, you will and must encounter paradoxes. Without delving into paradoxes, you will remain on the surface of things.

Thanks!

That waa really great ! Always look forward ro your work?

Wow, combine with some Alen Watt's lectures this is having a profound effect on my comprehension of right action and if you allow me "real reality" since being stuck by lightning while studying an old testament Bible passage then comparing it to a new testament passage 24 years ago in my effort to understand consciousness or to say ultimate reality. I wish we had any of Christ teachings before corrupted by old men in Rome, as I see, likely similar to this understanding as in Taoism and early Hindu teachings...

Awesome video! Thanks for teaching me about this profound thinker. He's been on my radar a while; glad I clicked on your video!

I don’t think I’ve ever heard of him until my dream last night.

Keep going.

It's very simple in that the beginning of the circle⭕is also the end of the circle once the circle💫 is fully made as has been spoken in the Nag scripture of St.😇 Thomas, "The 1st🥇is the last, & the last, 1st, in the Circle of LIFE=mc2🧬😂!

13:57 yes, truth is alive and this was the reason why Sokrates didn’t write. Learn how to see! ”The eyes are useless when the mind is blind!”

Health depends on the balance forces pulling in opposite directions- homeostasis, applies to everything.

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11:42 the first shall become last and the last shall become first

0:36 THERES A SECERET DOOR!!!

This is a well-made and presented video, but I would have to harshly disagree with the translation used, and the interpretation derived, although there are some good and novel insights provided as well. Unfortunately, though it is a penguin edition, the Haxton translation is widely regarded as disreputable, and I would add that the psychologizing post-modernist introduction to it is perhaps more damaging. Clearly you have drawn from additional sources, but relying on the Haxton translation in any respect will not yield a just conclusion. Perhaps the most egregious problem is indicating that Heraclitus ever suggested we should “look within”. What he actually says is “I inquired for myself”, and in the context that it is given in that form, which is Diogenes Laertius’ Life and Times of Eminent Philosophers, it’s an expression of his independence of thought, emphatically NOT a mystical pursuit of his inner being. Heraclitus’ extant fragments actually abound in the exact opposite sentiment, with an amazing number of criticisms for those who live in “private worlds” or have “private understanding”, as against wisdom which is common. This is just one example, but I do hope it illustrates the need not to impress upon Heraclitus our own prejudices, of which he was wholly innocent.

Inhale, exhale inhale exale. First we need our breath to be able to live. And then to think.

more i learn more appears that axial age philosophy seems similar from athens to beijing (or whatever it was called then) ... underlying similarities in all human thought

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Games men choose to play indicate not only their type, but also their level of inner development. Following Thomas Szasz, we can divide life games into object games and meta-games. Object games can be thought of as games played for the attainment of material things, primarily money and the objects which money can buy. Meta-games are played for intangibles such as knowledge or the "salvation of the soul." In our culture object games predominate. In earlier cultures meta-games predominated. To the players of metagames, object games have always seemed shallow and futile, an attitude summarized in the Gospel saying: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" To the players of object games, meta-games seem fuzzy and ill-defined, involving nebulous concepts like beauty, truth or salvation. The whole human population of the earth can be divided roughly into two groups, meta-game players and object-game players, the Prosperos and the Calibans.The two have never understood one another and it is safe to predict that they never will. They are, psychologically speaking, different species of man and their conflicts throughout the ages have added greatly to the sum of human misery. S. De Ropp

Living organisms are geared towards preserving Energy and maximizing pleasure a Biological Phenomena in our body called homeostasis which is trying to maintain inner balance..

Hey it the Mario madness guy

He sounds like buddha or it you projecting buddha or me ?? Very very tensed

The logos is the Son (divine mind) the Son is existence/life.

No Heraclitus never believed all is mind, he believed all was fire. Idealists love their sophistry

there is no opposite. What we call opposite is just the absence of sth. Darkness is the absence of light. Cold is the absence of heat. Chaos is the absence of order. So, yes, light and darkness are effects of the same thing, so they are one in this sense, cause darkeness does not exist as an autonomous entity, its just the absence of light.

weird fishes - radiohead

Man this looks exactly same as jainism. do look into it too

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On one hand there is hunger, and on the other hand there is bread.

no, Thomas Paine is the greatest forgotten philosopher

No - Parmenides is!

There is no point in giving the meanings of the words(mind). What you think/want it to mean is probably wrong.

Heraclitus : one of the earliest purveyors of meaningless drivel . ( or " philosophers " as they are better known .)