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This was amazing! -Reallized there is a noticable intelligence to nature (a flow). Farmer story-insight of Ying Yang. -Ying Yang principle-there are seemingly opposong forces that are in balance with another (where one ends, the other beings, and within each, an element of the other is contained). Co-exist in harmony (no hot without cold, need contrast to have meaning). -Have you ever (been anxious or depressed about actions) examples when not follow WuWei( non-action) stress/tense -When in line with the Tao (flow)-Chapter 63-in lign with natural intelligence of the Universe. Trust. -WuWei-letting go (Chapter 48), when have doubts, move you away the natural way (live simply). Take advantage of natural pattern of the world. Flow state-feel like inspired by the muses ''be in the zone''. -No absolute moral judgement-no mention of afterlife. Live life well now. Death is a natural phenomenon. Humans are not treated anything more than part of the grand balance. -Ultimate reality is the Tao. Human condition-fight the current, but by practicing Wuwei-be in harmony with Tao-transcend the human condition-letting go (live life gracefully).
Thank you for creating this video. I was looking for information of taoism as I created a character in one of my dm's games who is a taoist martial artist. But wanted to do homework on what entails with taoism and you broke it down in a way I can understand. Thank you so much!
📌 🙌 great video, but someone actually needs to hear this, you've got to stop saving all your money.Venture into investing some, if you really want financial stability.
@@Iक्रिप्टोइंडिया-n5p Lately I've been thinking of buying cryptocurrency or stocks for retirement, I've set asides $350k to invest but along the line, I usually get cold feet, maybe because I have no idea what I'm doing, please I could really use some guidelines.
@@larizoclack1541 Even with the right technique and assets some investors would still make more than others, as an investor, you should've known that by now, nothing beats experience and that's final, personally I had to reach out to a market analyst for guidance which is how I was able to grow my account close to a million, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I'm buying again
Thanks for sharing this lecture. I've been teaching Tai Chi for many years and trying to connect the theory and practice together. Yin-yang ☯ and wu wei are the most important principles to understand, when you practice Tai chi. I always advise my students " Don't struggle" when you move. Just go with the flow.
It's important to understand that Laozi didn't come up with Taoism or the concept of Yin/Yang. Both concepts were around long before him as ingrained concepts that covered many different ideologies in Ancient China. What Laozi (and more importantly, the people who followed him) was formalize and focus the concept of Taoism into its own thing. The school of Taoism can be likened to a branch of Chinese Philosophy in much the same way Buddhism was originally a branch of Hinduism. Taoism didn't take on the formal structure we know it today until the religion was added and ideology was cemented down as a "thing". This formalization of Taoism goes against the teachings of both Laozi and Zhaungzi ironically.
Great analogies to help us understand Taoism. To me Yin-Yang symbolizes an equal but opposite universe. TAO TE CHING to me is a Chinese perception and elaboration of what I believe is the source document that was written up to 5000 years ago called The Kybalion by Hermes/Thoth the Scribe of the Gods. The Kybalion identifies the 7 principles of the Universe. The Tao Te Ching blends those 7 principles into aspects of life on Earth. Yin-Yang is basically Newton's 3rd law + Polarization, duality, cause and effect. My golf swing technique is more Yin-Yang the better it gets. What the hands and club do is equal but opposite to the body's action or motion. The softer more supple and less rigid you are the better the sequencing gets, the flow. In some respects I believe Tao Te Ching is Lao Tzu's interpretation of the Kybalion. It was 'maybe' lucky that the official Lao Tzu met at the border in the mountains was deemed by him to understand or we may not have this wonderful document explaining Tao Te Ching. 'The lips of wisdom are closed except for those with ears for understanding' - Kybalion.
my man you cannot bring up Star wars and have a concept of it and say something and then not say what you're about to say come on now Star wars let's do it
Not all things are opposites, and we can understand them. If someone said do you want to go to the amusement park and eat cotton candy and ride the roller coaster, you wouldn't understand that because there is work parks and rock salt and traffic jams you would just know what a thing is because you experienced the thing not its opposite. Life is more like this : chaos chaos chaos we figure out how to live or not the end
If all things were the amusement parks, all food were cotton candy and all places a roller coaster than indeed you wouldn't be able to understand any of those things. It's only because there are places to go that isn't the amusement park, things to eat that are not cotton candy and activities that are not the rollercoaster that those things have meaning. A fish in water wouldn't understand that it's in water just like the things that pass you by everyday will disappear in your mind because you're so habituated to them. In this way all things are defined by what they are not as much as what they are.
@@V4Andy it's simply not true that "all things are defined by what they are not". Things whatsoever they are are not defined, words which society develops in and through shared use create meanings and symbols for things and out of things. But the thing needs nothing for it to be.
@@yawnandjokeoh "But the thing needs nothing for it to be." Let's say nothing else existed but the thing that is. What does that thing become? A chair is something that is used to sit on but without a sitter the chair can't be sat on so a chair can no longer be a chair. A bird is not the worm that it eats but without the worm it can't eat so it will starve and die. The sun is not the light that shines out of it but without that light the sun can't be what it is. Everything has a dependency on things that they're not to exist as they are.
@@V4Andy things don't need philosophical musings to exist. Dialectical materialism is nonsense and not a science. Working people who read Marxist writings gain nothing useful from petty bourgeois philosophy of this sort. We need to destroy the political order as is, not get carried away in 18th and 19th speculative philosophy
@@yawnandjokeoh who said things needed philosophy to exist? I'm not defending Marxism or dialectical materialism and referenced zero 18th century philosophers so who are you even talking to?
