What is Daoism? 

Nothing like the Dow Jones.

Agree, the objectivity of this channel is unparalleled and I am always amazed that the information is so succinct and neatly packaged.

this is a satire channel.

Dow Jones..great pun..sir..lol

Thought it was spelled with a T. Pronounced with a D.

@@PieterPeter-ud7wf perfect comment

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I think the translation I have heard more is "non-governing" as opposed to "inaction". Which relates to a lack of an ego based origin for your actions

No, it means an action which is not the activity of the self.

​@@heinmolenaar6750 It's action through the self, as opposed to through the ego. Lack of forcefulness.

其实和佛家讲的差不多，终极目标都是虚无之境衍生出物理世界。 阴阳五行都是由一点衍生出去的。

​@@user-zs1un7lj3l with all due respect...thats just a vague platitude that is utterly meaningless

@@Mikhail.Tolstykh you simply do not get it... unforch

@@user-zs1un7lj3l 跟佛教区别大了去了，你看到的汉传佛教是被道教儒教严重影响了的所谓儒释道一体，南传小乘和原始佛教根本是印度教的底子，四大皆空，无我无性，涅槃寂灭，你看了印度教的经典就很容易理解。

Lao-tze was just trying to get away from his overly burdensome Chinese wife!

Multilinguist... It's poliglot...

@@Untilitpases Latin multi - means "many" Lingua- means "tongue or language" Polyglot is the Greek version en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism#:~:text=Multilingualism%20is%20the%20use%20of,by%20a%20group%20of%20speakers.&text=People%20who%20speak%20several%20languages,called%20first%20language%20(L1).

@@Untilitpases I love how you tried to be rude to someone who’s ESL and *they* taught you something

Yeah

#Eat5StarDoNothing

Skål?

@@toresanderify it's basically our term for cheers

I don't think so! Not with the Indian languages😂

.. I prefer Wade - Giles when reading, though...

He was pronouncing the Arabic names very correct in a video i watched last week

Or Bangladesh or the Netherlands that is!

Don't take an analogy too far...

I think anyone who thinks that water is fighting with them is having a bit of an ego, but I can't deny that the spirit of Florida is to self intoxicate and fight god.

Here. Read something informative, and stop taking an analogy too far. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_the_Great en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River#Dynamics

​@@chendaforest ... And sometimes it's a joke and your interjection of "wisdom" is cringe because you completely misunderstood.

so you do not know. because you talk.

No one here knows

My interpretation or 2 cents worth: preachers/teachers, etc. aren't the ones with the most/highest(?) knowledge, but the quiet/meek who live the truth they've earned with dedication. They keep the good stuff. You have to work for yours.

“While her disappointed Sister looked on, / Quiet as the snow, knowing well: / Those who know don't talk / And those who talk don't know“ - mewithoutYou

@@muhammadsidik5281 she was quoting what others have said

Please tell me why and try to be specific.

@@GeertMeertens there is nothing special about this book. why even bother to read it?

@@GeertMeertens because the Word "Greatest" means, in this case, that The book has given specific understanding to Vasuki. And the way of gratitude Vasuki kindly wrote "Greatest". Surely you don't have a "Greatest" book, I sincerely wish you find yours📚

@@Manwendlil A book that has been translated into more languages than any other book than the Bible might bear checking out.

@@GeertMeertens It can't be specific when tlaking about the Tao, sorry

May I ask what motivated you read to these texts?

@@niravsavla1470 becoz it's interesting

Do try yo read the book of Montheostic religion Oam i.e. Quran as well.

I felt that the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita share a lot in common with the Tao Te Ching. But the Tao Te Ching has a remarkable style which is unique and kind of blows your mind. I started telling people "The Brahman that can be discussed, is not the real Brahman" :) taking from the opening of the Tao, but replacing "Doa" with "Brahman"

​@@janakakumara3836ken upanishad makes similar claims where it discusses how Brahman is beyond speech, thought and pran but is the source of all these things.

I agree completely, and am also only now learning about the Abrahamic religions. Very glad to have my basis in the Tao; I feel I see things clearer than I did before, and I can better find capital-T Truth hidden within the other traditions of the world

I believe most secular westerners like you did not have access to over 90% of texts about taoism that exists now. In fact the mainstream face of Taoism in the west is nothing that resembles the taoism that created a very strong religion controlled government for almost 2000 years (ending in 1911).

Do you agree that there seem to be paralels between the reaction Daoism was to confusionism and the reaction Christianity was to Judeism.

I agree. Words whatever language they come from are all ultimately abstractions. My take is that what we are all witnessing is eternal being (the mind of god) via thought, feeling and perception and these traditions help express the beauty of this mystery via their scripture, poetry, art and various practices.

True. There is something change less no matter what name it takes.

Exactly. Not sure of Sufism though.

I was just thinking the same thing -- there seem to be two basic strains: finding oneness with a "god" which is completely ineffable; we are already "that"; there is only that and everything appears within that; or everything that appears to be appearing within that is illusory. I really like the way this instructor brings out these strains in thought thought the various lectures on different 'religions" or strains thereof. Perhaps one could say it is his unconscious bias or maybe his conscious bias but as a sort of Daoist/Advaitan/Yogi/Jew (ok, that's funny) I am always reaching in my heart for this ultimate oneness. Religion is not about an old man with a long beard sitting on a throne or about the thirty two thousand personal hindu gods, so forth and so on. All the dogma and structure is originally intended to be the stairways to heaven, so to speak. Reductionist thinkers who don't know anything about religion stop with the altar and start with the mocking. Ultimately it is about truth, about union with the divine, about approaching our own higher selves. We all know, deep down, that whatever we are doing on this planet as people is some sort of masquerade, and perhaps, ultimately, it is this everyday life we live that is the ultimate mystery which can never be understood. Some think this human life is only a mechanism we are gifted with to help us reach "truth". I just had to comment because your remark rang a bell. Peace.

Stoicism isn’t a religion

I have often marvelled at the beauty of Sufism🙂

@@SuperStargazer666 Yes it's very intresting!

@@pimpomism soft islam

@@hajorm.a3474 more like more spiritual not necessarily soft just like ig protestants aren’t necessarily soft in their dogma or history

dude ,you guys see anyone other than anyone taking about Islam ?? islam was so good that it always create extremism world wide.

incisively put!

Good stuff - powerful and refined thinking/action.

You pretty much have it. Yes your gut is kind of exactly it. But most importantly, it's trying to re-teach or to give you a little enlightenment to how you, your mind, as well as others around you and the universe it self works. Once u can see in your mind eye the WAY, then you will be on a new path of being

Agreed, I’d love to know the name of the track

Yeah

@@DrHouseMusic All the music used in the channel is produced by Filip (Let's Talk Religion) himself :)

It's very chill and mellow

It is not a religion because it does not encourage a belief in an entity. I took Taoism and Buddhism in college. It is a wonderful philosophy.

@@Haywood2 Western culture has this tendency to avoid calling Eastern religions, religions, in the hopes of legitimizing it in the hyper-materialistic western mindset. This is problematic, as he said earlier in the video

@@Haywood2 But it does... It encourages Belief in ‘heaven’ which was seen as the place of the divine.

@@trneighty5941 Yeah. Christianity also has a complete philosophical framework more than just biblical revelation.

Thanks your . 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

@@user-bl3is9cx2rthe communists admitted that the cultural revolution was a mistake and now embrace their cultural roots (see the Beijing opening Olympics) If anything the danger to traditional culture are westerners looting and destroying China like what happened to the old summer palace

It's the same in India. It's the same anywhere. The only outlier are Judeism, Christianity and Islam.

You must be a infj personality type!?

Thanks! :) Yes I'll probably do more videos on the subject

Is there anywhere I can read about this?

Nice catch! That's a good comparison actually. Yes that does sound like a kind of perennialism :) Although perennialism doesn't necessarily say that they all have a common "origin" but that they are all expressions of the same absolute truth. Nothing wrong with that though. I fall into those tendencies myself sometime :)

Thank you :) I'm quite pleased with it myself, actually. Glad you like it too!

Good comparison...And only hindu philosophy can be used as comparison or as refference because of the depth similarity...while abrahamic at that time consider 10 commandments are the ultimate teaching, asian so called "religion" has already search into mind and psycology of individual and the universe.

@@Alexander-rg2wb Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

As they are the most peaceful to humanity/mankind, based on unconditional love, peace, compassion, mercy to all beings. Not a dogma based on evil carrots and punishments

@@timetoreason181 this is just a small comment you made but i totally agree with this, there was one almost sleepless night i had where i tackled my disagreements on how god on christianity tackled its sinners and its followers and most of it i find very distasteful and cruel, so what i did is i turned my back on it and decided i will find that one form of religion that i believe is something i can totally agree with. after all they're a ton of religions out there waiting for someone to dive deep with. besides many people had believed it... why can't i?

Daoism Buddhism Hinduism

The Sufi mentioned but not named - was Ibn Arabi.

Daoism, Stoicism and Bhuddism

@@kuyab9122 Yes, agreed! Especially Zen Buddhism.

He has...

@GG GG confucius is just one philosopher out of many he's not the focus of daoism in fact, he's the opposite, confucianism's strict rule-based thought is in direct opposition with the go-with-the-flow philosophy of daoism

Good points!

The Taiwanese folk religion (could be considered a branch of Chinese folk religion) doesn't focus on and have no interest in Laozi's philosophy, its central belief is the consistency of the incense and fire which are the symbol of the succession of ancestors and the divinity from the homeland.

Ancestral worship, Chinese folk religion and Daoism are three distinct practices, altho they may share practicioners. Ancestral worship has a long history, it became closely integrated with Confucianism. Daosim has little to do with that.

Gneee... Not quite They have very opposite views of the world... As an old saying goes: Buddha, Confucius and Lao tse met to try some beverage. Buddha found it too bitter. Confucius found it insipid. Lao tse thought It was alright, sweet even. This explains their world views. Buddha's view of the world Is rather pessimistic, you must cease to exist to find true peace. Confucius hated how the world around him was, supposedly, chaotic. He preached for laws and strict rules. Lao tse instead taught people that the world is fine, It's our minds that see it as painful or chaotic. You must flow with Life and find joy in the simple things, the world Is fine the way it Is. It's the exact opposite of buddhism. The two schools were bitter rivals in the old times. Sometimes bloody deeds happened too. It was thanks to the chinese people themselves, not the elites, philosophers and holy men, that the religions achieved harmony. Cause, besides some people who had the luxury to focus on One school of thought, most people had no time for that. The same happened in Japan and in the rest of Asia. Everyone likes Buddha, but not everyone Is into leaving their families and works in the farm to become a monk.

@@hermescarraro3393 bro you are talking like total taoism is tao te ching and complete Buddhism is just four fold path taught by buddha

yes-- I have reread my copy a few times, and also like "The Te of Piglet" that Hoff wrote later.

What was life like there?

What WAYS in the middle east are you referring me? Did you mean Pakistan and India? Because the Middle East is mostly Abrahamic religions, mostly bring Muslims

Wu wei is an ant-iintellectual term of art

Good to know. Thank you for bringing that perspective to light.

​@@george221999在中国，无为发展到禅宗就解决它内部的矛盾。

Jesus + modern Christianity in all its forms 🤷‍♀️ you can apply a similar argument to most religions

@@k2990j Agreed ..just as Jesus has almost nothing to do with the church and christian...

@DEFEND THE TRUTH - WITH LOVE Take care of your own soul. Let others live. Plz🙏