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The Science of Spontaneity: Mastering Wu-Wei
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EDWARD SLINGERLAND:
Edward Slingerland is Professor of Asian Studies and Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. Educated at Princeton, Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, he is an internationally renowned expert in Chinese thought, comparative religion, and cognitive science. In addition to over twenty academic journal articles in a range of fields, he has written several scholarly books, including What Science Offers the Humanities and a translation of the Analects of Confucius. He is the author of Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity.
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Edward Slingerland: In order to understand what effortless action is, you have to understand what effort is and what effort feels like. And I think the best way to do that is the so-called Stroop Test. So, we’re going to flash a word on the screen and you should say aloud the color that it’s printed in, we don’t care what the word says just the color. So here it goes. Alright, so that was probably fairly easy. Did it fast, you had no confusion. We’re going to flash another word now the same thing. Only want to know the color it’s in, we don’t care about what it says. So, unless you’re some kind of space alien you paused or you said the wrong thing you said green or you said green red so that kind of feeling of having to stop yourself and override a natural reaction and then impose another reaction that’s cognitive control, that’s effort. And we understand very well from a cognitive science perspective how this works. So, part of your brain is detecting conflict between the parts of your brain that recognize color and the parts that can read English if you’re a native English speaker and those two are in conflict so the ACC, anterior cingulate cortex, says danger, danger we’ve got to resolve this conflict and then the prefrontal cortex, lateral prefrontal cortex is brought in to resolve this issue. All of that takes a lot of time. So, that feeling of effort you have it took you longer the second time, just gives you a sense of both what cognitive control what effort feels like and also the limitations of it because it’s hard, you’re actually a little bit fatigued after you do that once. So, in doing a Stroop Test then has less self-control and if you then offer them carrots versus cookies as a snack, even if they’re on a diet they’ll go for the cookies. Self-control, that effort, draws energy...
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@bigthink 4 года назад

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@marksavoia3687 Год назад

Wu Wei of The Way "I can of mine own self do nothing” John 5:30

@artvikeu 6 лет назад

Makes sense! I remember myself being naturally interested in learning how to play the guitar. Spending 5-6 hours every day, without noticing it, very effective and easy. So this was carving and polishing, but with no effort. And then, when I could let myself play without thinking I could experience the Zhuangzi , for I could empty my head and just let spirits in me play and write songs. But now, when I realize I MUST do, I Must learn, I must move, everything became so much slower and harder. What if you know who you want to be, but you're not sure you are able to be?

@KarlSnarks 10 месяцев назад

A metaphor I heard that sounds a lot like the third option (and also a bit like the fourth), is that Wu Wei is more like sailing than rowing. With rowing you need to constantly exert effort without building momentum, while with sailing you'll still need effort to get things going and go the right way, but you'll work with the wind (symbolizing the Dao) who gets you where you need to go.

@JaketheBakedSsnake 10 лет назад

I even had difficulty with blue

@arturo_cruz 10 лет назад

lol, I actually took longer to process the first color blue because i didn't know what to expect (wanted to say white), since i knew what to expect i focused on the color not the word, so i immediately registered it as red. Maybe the test should be taken without the blue first, or shown after as a better comparison.

@Lukeisreallycool 5 лет назад

yeah i said blue but then immediately said red...

@syoudipta 4 года назад

Alien alert!

@rinosmeetngreedthusdays 4 года назад

me too i try to hard like he say

@AkashSharma-tn5su 3 года назад

You have already learned "not trying". Congratulations!!!

@modestmoose83 10 лет назад

I accidentally mastered Wu-Tang, confusing it with Wu Wei.

@bacchanal888 5 лет назад

Step 1: protect ya neck son

@patymoonkaraoke 4 года назад

Wu Wei Clan ain't nuthin' ta fck wit.

@theblindcanblink 4 года назад

@@patymoonkaraoke I dont know you, but We Wei Clan is probably the best Name ive heard of these two. We are now friends

@roverandmorerestore7266 3 года назад

The fuh. Screw wu wei.I NEED ME SOME TANG!

@atomusbliss 3 года назад

both are, in fact, For The Children. "Hey! Dirty- Baby I got your Money!"

@Prohobby123 6 лет назад

Jiddu Krishnamurti’s - ”Detachment” - has been one of my most effective tools…

@urgulp1554 9 лет назад

Try meditation, you will come to understand wu-wei. All activity of mind results in tension, only letting go produces peace.

@emptysky3659 4 года назад

Well done thank you

@googlify406 4 года назад

How do I let go of letting go?

@Viv8ldi 3 года назад

what else can I do except meditation? When I meditate after the whole mind thing starts all over

@rockoramadevil 3 года назад

@@Viv8ldi Taiji really helps me, but I believe any activity that you like works as well. Something simple, as preparing a cup of tea and taking your time to sip it...is meditation as well for example. Doing things in a metative way. Even taking a shower 😉

@rockoramadevil 3 года назад

@@googlify406 if it helps, stopping asking to yourself how to let it go ( which is a big stressor) and just observe your thoughts

@psymon1024 9 лет назад

When i practice wu wei, I bring forth the idea in my mind: controllessness. I then try to feel controllessness of my hands, or ...of my feet, or ...of my mind. Etc etc. If i add enough things together i'll start to feel giddy and will smile. It feels very nice, refreshing and is a great way to kill time. I also add anything that is painful or tense and it just fades away.

@andong1960 4 года назад

psymon wu wei should not be practised

@trevorbailey1486 2 года назад

I started to feel giddy and smile just reading your post, psymon. Thank you so much! "Controllessness": yes, I think this did it.

@CameronS437 10 лет назад

Great! Love Edward Slingerland's mini lectures.

@Muninn801 2 года назад

Realized while watching that "unschooling" is exactly wu wei. Public education turns all learning into effort.

@user-ed5ke8mt7s 2 года назад

Timely video. All semester I heaved SO much effort. Studying and stressing for hours. Sometimes 10 hours at a time. After work, etc... Neglecting my health and home. Trying so hard until I became exhausted and could not focus or retain info.... My only choice was to rest... After this (shameful feeling) 2 week rest period I know to keep my calm, stay grounded, and to study for less time... weird... but I only got to this point because I pushed myself to the max. It's crazy because the "miraculous balance" he mentioned that you just happen to find after pushing yourself so hard, I am currently experiencing. Very unexpected. The key is actually WANTING what you're working so hard to achieve. Sounds like Wu Wei is a process. Not an immediate occurrence. Also- many less mistakes are made when you are present, allowing, and in the flow of Wu Wei it seems.

@TheChadPad 8 лет назад

Another definition of "Wei" is "govern", and "We" can mean "without", so another accurate translation would be "without governing". This meshes with "effortless action" well, but may be easier to understand for average people. To act without governing your actions would be to act without "self-control", which implies that your natural state is something to be fought against and changed through conscience effort. I think this can cause internal conflict or self-delusion. To act freely, without conscience governing of oneself, is the goal, and a very healthy one at that. ZERO STRESS!!!

@humanyoda 5 лет назад

What if one's natural state, natural desire is to be anti-social?

@RickC--fn5om 4 года назад

The Art of Being: the dissolution of any sense of having an ego standing over one's shoulder who will beat you senseless with a club for any minor slip-up. I'm just regurgitating Alan Watts' words in more extreme terms to illustrate a point cause I'm too lazy to find the real quote. He put it far more eloquently, of course.

@d0nj03 3 года назад

@@humanyoda It's not. That kind of desire is always artificial and based on the delusional belief that you're "isolated" or "individual", that you stand apart from the society you'd be hurting. Once you meditate enough to fully understand what you are, you realize you're everything (an inseparable part of the whole), and therefore that anytime you hurt something or someone you're literally hurting yourself.

@TheJacklwilliams Год назад

Well stated. I will add only one thing and I believe we ALL misconstrue our fellow human beings. There is, no “average” person incapable of understanding the knowledge they pursue to possess. Only those, that pursue other things than that which you are in pursuit of. Thereby, if they should arrive in this place that you stand they will be fully capable of grasping the concepts that you have previously consumed and digested. Should they not, take the same road, their knowledge or ability in the given things with which they yearn for will be attained. When we see those that do not readily possess that with which we believe ourselves to possess we immediately lay judgement that they are lacking. We are all, lacking that with which we’ve not expended any energy towards gaining. Whether that be from the Wu-Wei or like bulls in a china shop. There are no “average” human beings.

@inthemomenttomoment 2 года назад

Musicians go through this all the time they overcome difficulty by practice their music and therefore the music sounds effortless because it becomes effortless by overcoming the effort effortlessly.

@flamingomingo9810 2 года назад

Even though “de” is achievable through effortless action, it’s the reason why I DONT have wu wei. I have and idolize that “aura” that I have when I’m not trying, but as soon as I get around another person or do something that has potential consequences, I just THINK of myself with the “anxious vibe/aura,” which isn’t necessarily the anxiety itself, but the version of myself that I view as lesser, more passive, and less charismatic, so it changes the way I think of myself entirely. I even look different and have a different voice that I thought I did. That’s what makes it so hard to differentiate between what’s effortless and what’s not. I’ve been trying so hard to be the wu wei version of me, but the only way is to accept that that version isn’t really even me. I don’t think the anxious one is either; I’m not my thoughts or emotions, but the perspective viewing it.

@russellbarndt6579 4 года назад

Oh yes ,thank you good sir for the way in which you lined those different views within the same thought lessons. I am gratful

@dragonofthewest8305 3 года назад

Thank you so much

@SoyElta 3 года назад

I enjoy this man's prosody. Very pleasant.

@kenbertolucci9673 4 года назад

Well done, Edward.

@muskduh 2 года назад

thanks for the video big think

@DavidEsotica 10 лет назад

Ah, a very elegant way to describe it scienfically

@XenogeneGray 10 лет назад

Large parts of this have already been posted, but it's good to have them all in one video :)

@laoisemeehan 5 лет назад

Excellent explanation

@StarlynMorel 10 лет назад

beautiful video

@felixb2 Год назад

This is a great video. What's great about the final strategy is the little amount of emotional effort you are putting towards things, and in Western culture, it's more likely that failure will bring negative emotions. You can work on your emotions, but at the same time, learning to work in a flow state can help you realize the things that are actually important.

@MrZy84 4 года назад

Mastery of skill or the situation comes from effortless action

@sentiny 4 года назад

The obvious answer is flowing between those four strategies. Wu-wei is essential for meditation and at the same time wu-wei is the result of meditation. You gave meditation some wu-wei and meditation gives you back more of it. (Almost like a perpetual-motion machine)

@BIGDRXXMR444 3 года назад

good explanation

@fjordichi 10 лет назад

"Keep your mind as clear as a polished mirror" - shenmue

@RossetaStoned91 10 лет назад

Love that game

@jmal716 5 лет назад

Lmao

@albundy9597 4 года назад

I have no cloth

@morganthem 10 лет назад

Lumosity has the stroop test but in high gear - as fast you can hit a key for points. It is super fun to do.

@A.T._FIELD Год назад

he lights up when talking about ZhuangZi

@isabellajones8535 4 года назад

I didn't have any difficulty getting the colour. I just told myself to look at colour and not look for anything else. I dont even know what the word in red said. I didn't find the issues He talked about, it's just about how you tell yourself to look, what to look for and what to ignore.

@kingmcbrian 10 лет назад

LOOOOOL omg his video is so awesome :D

@naturalisted1714 2 года назад

I'm thinking that if wu wei appeals to you, and "makes sense" to you, then you're probably already a taoist. I'm thinking taoists are born. We (society) often prescribes things to people as a way to help them, but I think things are the other way around. Recently there was a study saying that if you learn more than one language that it'll improve your brains health - but my point is that if you're able to learn more than one language (as an adult) *that* is a sign that you already have a healthy brain.

@nosapience 10 лет назад

Wu-Wei ... When wandering around the world of complexity I'm always conscious of the proximity of the mystical woo. At the edges of understanding the odors and conmen can ply their trade: you know the kind, those ones that can put you in touch with your inner self!! In the wu-wei there is something splendid, ancient that predates cognitive science as we know it, so the rationale is occasionally bonkers, but there's something correct about tapping into the situation you find yourself in and acting positively. That's complexity!

@lovernotfighter 4 года назад

Do I need to sign up for the workshop?

@loredananiculae4060 Год назад

For the Stroop Test, if one uses peripheric vision, instead of focusing on the letters (center of the screen), the confusion might not appear... Color is vibration. It dissipates. No need to look exactly into the center of the screen. This is compliant with the test objective - namely, to say the color present on the screen, as fast as possible. :)

@SmileFreestyle-hx2rc 7 месяцев назад

Try but not too hard seems right on point

@LAIDBACKMANNER 10 лет назад

When it comes to some things (like music for example). I like and have be doing this for a long time 0:07:14 Stop thinking and just flow.

@Purpose_Tortoise 10 лет назад

Just what I wanted to say. If you want to make good music you have to try first, get the skill. But when it comes to playing/composing, you have to forget all you learned, or better said, don't think about it. Let you senses guide you, let your spirit be the only tool you use. And people can recognize it and feel it. That is the beauty of music, just forgetting about all the trouble and making your mind empty.

@SageAndOnions 10 лет назад

Yeah, I play guitar and I play best when I just let the music happen without thinking. It's true for all art I assume. And it's also true for the usual way we live, as in when you're driving a car you totally forget about driving the car; when you're hammering a nail, you totally forget that you're doing it - you become absorbed in the activity and forget about yourself, and this is basically the same as what the philosopher Heidegger talks about, so check him out if you're interested in this kind of thing :) He says it is only when you start to 'think', and therefore break the usual absorbment in life, that you start viewing the world as 'other' than 'you' (you get the subject/ object distinction like this). This is where things like science and philosophy usually start from, yet this is not the usual way we live and understand reality. Pretty interesting stuff.

@avayu2289 Год назад

Balance and Gratitude, grasshopper🤓

@wdh1550 10 лет назад

it is pretty humanist. appering in the foebus of. thay do, you shine!

@Torterra_ghahhyhiHd 7 лет назад

circuntance is always changing, that why people change strategy. there is no general formula that solve all problems. not yet knowed. the paradox of all powerfull, omnipotences. and the science is also, fragmented.

@KKAkuoku 5 лет назад

Boil down whatever you would love to do to a simple emotional sensation you feel in your body and then return to it over and over again until it becomes compulsory to PHYSICALLY do it

@vwazp 8 лет назад

i like the try not too hard, seems just right for me :)

@syoudipta 4 года назад

I thought at the end of the video I would be able to identify green colour of the font of the word blue, effortlessly!

@colinlee1237 10 лет назад

interesting video. eastern religions are much more rich and insightful than western to me

@megandemay2394 5 лет назад

sexy!

@GameFuMaster 5 лет назад

It's just different. Western philosophies tend to be asserting oneself and doing stuff, while eastern is about going with the flow and going with nature. Which is why Western society has developed more individualism, while Eastern societies are more about conformity.

@SurrogateActivities 10 лет назад

tell more pls

@hermanman8235 4 года назад

An antidote to wanting more and more

@jimlyon7276 2 года назад

@ 00:56 - The feeling of having to stop yourself, is also known as "applying a Thalamo Cortical delayed response" - for convenience normally referred to as a "cortical pause" i.e. allowing time to engage your cortex. For more on this see the INSTITUTE of GENERAL SEMANTICS. The title is somewhat misleading but another meaning for semantics is evaluation. The importance of that is the difference between a "sane" person & an "insane" one is NOT a difference of KIND , but one of DEGREE i.e. in the accuracy of their evaluations. It helps to know that G-S is THE NON NEWTONIAN SCIENCE OF EVALUATIONS which uses scientific methodology to solve life problems. Founded by ALFRED KORZYBSKI of whom it has been said that he did for our inner world what Einstein did for our outer one. - Learning it certainly changed my world :) - HTH?

@repivonex 10 лет назад

I'm Singapore Chinese. English is my native language (but I'm so bad at it) and Chinese is my mother tongue. I major in Chinese Language and Literature (and culture of course). Making connection between Wu-Wei and Confucius is totally unscientific. Wu-wei is the practice in Dao/Taosim (philosophy Taoism to be precise and not to confuse with religious Taoism), Wu-wei was never a practice in Confucius. Same as 'De'. There's a saying in Chinese 儒家入世，道家出世. Meaning Confucius is a 'practice' that brought people into the society and make it a better place, whilst (philosophy) Taoist or its teachings is a total opposite. Tao made people 'leave' the society and be focus on individual wellbeing, not under a society level or context like the teachings of Confucius.

@girldairy 8 лет назад

+Steve However, They can make connection.

@dasociety129113 7 лет назад

i thought wu-wei meant organic pattern like the grain in wood

@mirrorinsideout 6 лет назад

You're confusing it with "li"

@Freakenbacker 3 года назад

instagram and facebook are perfect to practice wu-wei. You can spend hours just letting it flow. effortless.

@providedperspective 3 года назад

The best words for wu wei is not forcing

@MassiveLib Год назад

Edward, every action is wei Wu wei because the sense of self is always claiming the action once its already occurred.

@DaveTan65 4 года назад

Wu Wei = As Within, So Without = Flow becomes You

@ditty88 7 лет назад

isn't Charles Bukowski's life strategy "don't try"? ... and be an alcoholic?

@FrancisGoForever 5 лет назад

You wouldn't become an alcoholic unless your goal was to die of intoxication or you were actually trying too hard to not try too hard. Love Bukowski's writing, though.

@return2innocence221 4 года назад

Pretty much 😂

@andrethegiant9011 4 года назад

his strategy was "don't try" unless it means everything for you

@eripolis 3 года назад

Which can now be translated in one of the main religions as... Live today as if it were your last day ... Or as I would say get out of your own way.

@sogghartha 10 лет назад

Wu wei huh? The way of woo. Very appropriate. The woo is strong in this man.

@wordythebird9975 10 лет назад

indeed, a true master of duh.

@lollard 9 лет назад

delusionnnnn So I guess we should throw out Plato and Aristotle too, right? People should never try to learn something from the thinkers of the past. It's all just useless "woo". No. What's "woo" is thinking human beings were dumb merely because they lived in a different time period, when we know that the structure of the human brain hasn't changed in hundreds of thousands of years. There may be some silly quasi-religious aspects of Lao Tzu's thought, but that doesn't mean we can't learn anything from his thoughts and contributions to philosophy. Many brilliant secular philosophers from the 20th century started studying people like Lao Tzu and built upon some of his ideas. Crying "woo" in this case is a textbook example of a straw man.

@lollard 9 лет назад

delusionnnnn I have a degree in philosophy; I know what straw man means. "Had we 'thrown out' Aristotle very early on, the history of intellectual investigation would have probably been much better off." You seem to be the type that values evidence. Do you have evidence for this claim? Because if you have no evidence for this claim, you're the one spreading "woo". Just because Aristotle's ideas were misinterpreted and abused by the church doesn't mean that Aristotle contributed nothing of value to the history of intellectual thought. All of propositional logic was built upon Aristotle, so there would literally be no science without him. Besides, what's to stop us from appreciating his work the way we appreciate the works of Homer or Shakespeare, even if we believe he was wrong at times? He was a critical thinker in an age of scientific ignorance. So... saying that it's possible for one to approach an activity with a sense of effortlessness is "woo"? What do you think happens every time you drive a familiar route, like your drive to work everyday? You're not consciously thinking about driving, nor the route. It's second nature to you. This is something we know scientifically to be the case about the brain. This happens to people who are very familiar with the activity they're engaged in. What's "woo" about that? There's nothing remotely magical, supernatural, or pseudoscientific about that at all. "Woo" is a straw man. Its purpose is to reduce an opponent's argument to something laughable, thereby making it easier to defeat. It's not always a complete mischaracterization of an argument, especially if the opponent is committing a fallacy worthy of the title "woo," but in this case, it is a complete mischaracterization.

@siritrenier1319 6 лет назад

sogghartha he

@trawmmwart8149 5 лет назад

Its written green, but the color is red. I think twice at once, hehe mastered wu wei. Its likes "dilemma" but you understand what you just think and understand what is the situation.

@awakenthegreatnesswithin 4 года назад

Action 😎

@ed-od9sd 10 лет назад

it is the simple but the hardest Buddhism idea of all time, which is the disparity between the knowing agent of yourself and the other who is able to know the knowing agent. When you start to observe yourself able to differentiate them, you will see and feel yourself as the knower and all other objects, one of which is" the thought that you are trying hard." When you have no sense of describing anything tangible to yourself, you have managed to make the two become one, which is the true efforts without efforts, living in the presence, or see God come.

@simonooi2544 2 года назад

One day humanity will live in such effortless spontaneity life. By then we have fully realized that all the over creativeness we added to our lives are destructiveness.

@m1g4s 10 лет назад

akuna matata, it's so easy to say...

@bhagita84 10 лет назад

It means no worries...

@johnb1391 10 лет назад

"Confucius, the stresses of life are overwhelming me! Should I just stop trying so hard at the less important stuff and focus on that what is important?" DUH! Err, I mean 'de'!"

@MiguelGonzalez-kp7hq 10 лет назад

Why must we pay to be educated? Education is a gift of conventional wisdom to all life and should not be tendered on currency.

@albundy9597 4 года назад

You work for nothing ?

@azaleaslightsage1271 4 года назад

@miguel Gonzalez You actually don't have to pay to be educated Theses days, You can educate yourself easily on the Internet All of M.I.T. courses are online for free Its ONLY the CERTIFICATE your actually paying for to say you have learnt it, That's the tragedy of Western education right there Its ONLY about the CERTIFICATE getting the CERTIFICATE Paying as much as they can get out of you for a CERTIFICATE, and it's only design was to keep the uneducated or lower education people in thier place, BELOW the upper classes , this is also why you can't get ALOT of jobs that will pay well without a CERTIFICATE to keep the most BELOW the so called higher classes (notice the word here 'class') I know many many self educated people that could do the jobs much better & more efficiently than thier mangers/board members etc These people are designed to CARRY the higher up educated with CERTIFICATES, its the 1s under the bosses that do all the work have the better ideas & ways of doing things, are much more practical & efficient The Bosses managers board members are just the 1s that get the credit for it, It's all about the CLASS system & keeping people down in thier place, ... Most also don't know that they trial new ideas on the lower classes if they fail & mess up the kids down there, they don't send it up the ladder to the higher education folks What's wrong messing up poor kids if it could make it better for those up the ladder This is also why as just happened in USA celebrities/mega rich folks got caught BUYING thier kids thier CERTIFICATES because it's only about getting the CERTIFICATE, not the actual learning & being Competent in your job The CERTIFICATE is everything the CERTIFICATE is now just a Status symbol & nothing else, nothing matters but getting that CERTIFICATE Hope this helps in answering your question ✌

@RickC--fn5om 4 года назад

@@azaleaslightsage1271 You seem to be hellbent on education as a certificate. There's many forms of education that don't cost a fortune but still get you credential - a certificate - or even get you credential along with experience. Apprenticeships and community colleges, to name just two. Several European countries even have free university tuition. It appears your perspective has been compartmentalized inside the American paradigm.

@azaleaslightsage1271 4 года назад

@@RickC--fn5om if you read it properly I'm actually saying a certificate is worthless you DONT NEED ANY TYPE OF CERTIFICATE to get ahead, I didn't finish primary school I'm totally self educated I hold NO CERTIFICATES of any kind & yet I earn well over few hundred thousand per year with that rising yearly I own property Am a Multi Millionaire with NO CERTIFICATES So you see holding a Certificate isn t a requirement for A Happy Successful forfilling life, Self Belief is the only requirment you need all follows self Belief 🤔

@themacocko6311 3 года назад

@@azaleaslightsage1271 Nice poem but zero proof.

@InMaTeofDeath 10 лет назад

I've done that word color thing before, so i didn't pause when i said red, damn I'm such a badass.

@JaedenRuiner 10 лет назад

I must be an alien, because I didn't pause. Or maybe I guessed the nature of the exercise and cheated by letting my eyes go out of focus so my mind could easily process the color, while not being distracted by the word. (i love using mental tricks like that) ;p

@bidenadministrationischina5091 2 года назад

Your probably a bit intuitive

@serialchillerAEE 10 лет назад

i still have s3, im always simple, people live in a room and sleep in bed now. nature is a good walk in a park

@TKO593 10 лет назад

Just as athletes are competitive I wonder if if these guys feel the rush of knowing they are recognized for being most zen. If any one knows how Buddhist are about competitive nature enlighten me.

@mushroomboxing Год назад

If you want to know more I'm going to talk more about this... Somewhere... ?

@niczwerg 10 лет назад

Why isn't Big Think Mentor available in Germany?

@mj13again 10 лет назад

Interesting. I suck at throwing, but when i just do it I hit the mark. I wonder how many athletes use this.

@embarassingusername 10 лет назад

Are they really going to put the rest of these videos behind a pay wall? I know it's a free trial right now but is this the plan for the future model of this channel?

@FringeWizard2 3 года назад

Don't attribute to the brain what is more appropriately attributed to the mind.

@obscurecult 10 лет назад

us westerns, always trying to win.

@bidenadministrationischina5091 2 года назад

Yeah why use yourself

@nederlandas 10 лет назад

Im an alien

@return2innocence221 4 года назад

Me too!

@nascentnaomie 3 года назад

✨📝📝📝

@mimojimi 3 года назад

not forcing, rather

@RazeDee 4 года назад

I guess be neutral and adapt according to the situation or your surroundings

@RazeDee 4 года назад

How this world is set up, it's hard to practice Wu-wei. I feel like I just wanna go and live in the countryside in some province and live a peaceful life but I wanna fulfill some of the my people's wishes and desires first before I go :)

@schonlingg.wunderbar2985 2 года назад

The hard part is living in the countryside, not practice. Practice is something you do with your mind ... or something you do by not doint and not doing things can be so easy.

@thomasbarton1050 2 года назад

Not necessarily, a Taoist might criticize society for being unnatural and therefore not with the flow of things, but really everything is natural and is in the flow of things. We're doing what humans do, we're playing a game and we are so invested in that game that we believe it is serious and that it is all that matters

@aikaaaa1919 Год назад

Its quickness of reaction, relies on logical analysis, therefore you don't have to think when It occurs, colors stuff, bad articulation, Hence effortlessness, It means you don't have to deliberate, figure out or think when it occurs, given problem, dealing with situation, you just react, respond, according to set rule. You'd know how and where to pay attention, and just react. Integration, meaning what is It about. This should be with respect to individuality next time, mutual understanding between two or other intelligent people, cause It would be not a game anymore. Just about more, fast, or quicker.

@LordMarcus 10 лет назад

You prepared me to have to recognize color without recognizing the world, and so when you flashed the blue "Blue" on screen, I got confused. :(

@theunknowncorps22 10 лет назад

This is basically the same video of this guy from a week back with added parts.

@andrewrich6905 3 года назад

If you think how much valuable energy you waste by trying to control so many things it becomes automatically easier to enter this state.

@leewawson344 4 года назад

🔵 Let's All Wu Wave 🌊#Namaste🌊

@cremedementhe6717 2 года назад

I didn't pause I'm good with fast tests.its a cognitive skills some people lack.

@hynjus001 5 лет назад

If you synthesize all the advice given here, you arrive at a single conclusion: love yourself

@thomasbarton1050 2 года назад

Acceptance and the acceptance of any inability to accept

@emilyreynolds417 7 лет назад

why is the stroop test so popular

@omkars764 8 лет назад

I'm a space alien.

@StanOfGB 10 лет назад

What exactly does this mean? Your personality is real if it coincides or you're just witty?

@thedecktothe16thpower56 10 лет назад

If you think China is an adversary you better get up to par with it.

@MarioVega-db8ft 7 лет назад

i didn't pause or say the wrong thing at the second word. i just unfocused my eyes so everything was blurry and said red when i saw it. Is that cheating?

@adrianfoster6202 7 лет назад

Yes, but don't worry , the stroop has been around since 1935.

@MarioThaMonkey 7 лет назад

+Adrian Foster Is that the name of the exercise?

@allend433 7 лет назад

i wouldn't call it cheating, I would call it, understanding....

@ksisneh 3 года назад

Oh I can't read engrish so I was able to do the color test very easily.

@SuperBigbob28 10 лет назад

space alien right here

@SMENS_FK 3 года назад

been doing this not knowing there's a name for it.

@Papa91echo 10 лет назад

Isn't this the same video he did last time?

@ian676786 4 года назад

That described in this video is not WuWei, WuWei is the management of the 4 different energies you can come across with in any activity you do, and they are: derived, positive, negative and still energy. So for example if you have a let's say negative energy or energy against you, like a guy wants to fight you for sth you did then the best thing to do is making his ego happy by saying, yes you are right it was my mistake or whatever you say to make his or her ego happy. You don't fight against negative energy. Just look at it in a macro way. For example the fight against the drugs. The fight against cancer, etc It just makes it grow So WuWei it's an elaborate way to handle any giving situation

@ADayOOO 10 лет назад

I must be some kind of space alien. :c

@laoisemeehan 5 лет назад

How bout neither is wrong nor right

@dungteller367 3 года назад

I have come to realize that I do not know! I do not know if knowings is possible. I have never meditated I only thought I was meditating. Thinking does not abate. I see silence as impossible because knowing silence negates it. It appears that there is only thinking the controller or the one aware is just another thought. I am not in control of my own thinking. Is it my own thinking? Or is thought saying "thinking' that there is a me that is thinking ? Can all this stop, without death? I am aware of thinking that I am aware! I am beginning to suspect that there is only thinking. If there is something beyond thought I am not aware of it. I also think and feel that if there was really something to meditation to all this Eastern philosophy that it would have delivered humans to a deeper understanding. Really if there is something for humans to give us meaning it appears to be beyond esoteric. I don't know. Someone once told me to' stay there" in not knowing. More thinking!