TAOISM | Be Like Water

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  • Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
  • Many people are hijacked by the rigidity of their minds. Thinking in categories and fixed ideas can be a great crutch for survival, as it creates clarity in a chaotic universe. But thinking too rigidly also has its negative consequences. Seeing the world in categories and separate boxes limits our perception, so we become stuck in our ideas of how things are, or supposed to be.
    As the universe is ever-changing, and most things, if not everything, is more complex than our minds can comprehend, a more fruitful approach to life, would be one that is flexible, tangible, that enables us to flow along. You know... a bit like water.
    The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu (Taoism) celebrates flexibility in his timeless work named the Tao Te Ching, in which he opposes the rigid life stance that some people choose to take. In contrast to what many think, weakness, and softness, or more specifically, the ability and willingness to yield, can actually be a great strength, according to Taoist philosophy.
    Hence, Lao Tzu states that the supreme good is like water. This video explores the benefits of being a bit less rigid and a bit more like water.
    "Be like water" - Bruce Lee
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Комментарии • 1,7 тыс.

  • @ReynaSingh
    @ReynaSingh 3 года назад +3560

    Taoism teaches us that life is series of spontaneous changes. If we’re willing to accept the natural flow of life; we will find perfect stillness. Stay blessed everyone!

    • @eudaimonia9260
      @eudaimonia9260 3 года назад +14

      What do you mean by perfect stillness?

    • @payaswinibansal5923
      @payaswinibansal5923 3 года назад +3

      @Tav aiono what do u do for a living?

    • @payaswinibansal5923
      @payaswinibansal5923 3 года назад +2

      @Tav aiono after reading your comment about how your are living which is what I wish for one day too. I just got curious about what u do for a living. Thats great.

    • @itzibitzidi
      @itzibitzidi 3 года назад +2

      beautifully said, i really needed this. bless you ❤️

    • @Reymundodonsayo
      @Reymundodonsayo 3 года назад +12

      Momma always said that life was like a box of dynamite

  • @andriyshapovalov8886
    @andriyshapovalov8886 3 года назад +1767

    “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
    C. Darvin

    • @peterwilliamson8721
      @peterwilliamson8721 3 года назад +9

      Evolution

    • @mypandawilleatyou38
      @mypandawilleatyou38 3 года назад +14

      Plus the ones who make the babies

    • @battlebuddy4517
      @battlebuddy4517 3 года назад +1

      @@mypandawilleatyou38 to many made do the opposite

    • @MegaSkye
      @MegaSkye 3 года назад +10

      Darwin never said this.

    • @ym6294
      @ym6294 3 года назад +16

      True Compared to turtles who been around for 100 million years. Species like that is flexible as water.

  • @nehainthebay
    @nehainthebay 3 года назад +852

    My grandma used to say, “be like the palm tree that bends to wind rather than the large, rigid tree that gets uprooted.”. Your video reminded me of this again. Thanks for sharing.

    • @flegmatika5758
      @flegmatika5758 2 года назад +5

      Great wisdom

    • @prasadtayade2779
      @prasadtayade2779 2 года назад

      But what will about the self respect ? 🤔

    • @Anonymous-vf5gj
      @Anonymous-vf5gj 2 года назад +19

      @@prasadtayade2779 It might not be self-respect but rather ego, if it destroys you

    • @StalkerStrike762
      @StalkerStrike762 Год назад

      My father also told me this thing.

    • @AliRaza-sn7wo
      @AliRaza-sn7wo Год назад +2

      It's also the saying of Prophet Muhammad..

  • @ICEcoldJT
    @ICEcoldJT 3 года назад +559

    Two things we all need to do:
    1. Be in the moment, in the presence
    2. Change your perception of reality.

    • @LSSoldo
      @LSSoldo 3 года назад +27

      Or, maybe, we don't have to do anything; just BE in the present moment - and be awake and aware; OBSERVE!
      And you'll know the next step...

    • @ginpau7416
      @ginpau7416 2 года назад +2

      @@LSSoldo yessir

    • @verfassungspatriot
      @verfassungspatriot 2 года назад +9

      @@LSSoldo you have to become nothing. Get attached to nothing, because nothing is the only real thing.

    • @Alex722
      @Alex722 2 года назад +2

      Just BE and the change of perception is inevitable, it's not forced.

    • @ManazYT
      @ManazYT 2 года назад +1

      I didn't expect to see you here. Ayyyyy

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 3 года назад +2310

    “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
    --Confucius

    • @Ropewatch
      @Ropewatch 3 года назад +55

      I'm Always surrounded by smart people so im in the right room :D

    • @sarahgray430
      @sarahgray430 3 года назад +111

      I am the only person in this room, so I am the smartest person by default.

    • @alvinkim1305
      @alvinkim1305 3 года назад +11

      @@sfjlfkjsdlfkjds That's a great observation right there.

    • @jackhaggerty1322
      @jackhaggerty1322 3 года назад +49

      "Man who goes to bed with itchy bum, wakes up with smelly finger"
      - Confucius

    • @Rhinoch8
      @Rhinoch8 3 года назад +5

      @@sfjlfkjsdlfkjds it's the other way around. You get surrounded with people who are like you 😂

  • @VerenaSatriani
    @VerenaSatriani 3 года назад +705

    Flow like water: when we don't try to control everything, that's the time when we trust that everything is in control.

    • @miguelchippsinteligente6072
      @miguelchippsinteligente6072 3 года назад +1

      Tesla referenced human energy 🌪👻jesus christ referenced living waters 💎🤍science described water memory 🌊👨‍🎓existence reflecting psychologically,psalms16:24 k,j 👻💎🤍👨‍🎓💞🗽🌪

    • @flamah10n
      @flamah10n 3 года назад +7

      I would say "control" instead, I would say everything is in it's course.

    • @jwu1950
      @jwu1950 2 года назад

      No. That's the time you got pushed around.
      May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

    • @ratanaun2960
      @ratanaun2960 2 года назад

      @@jwu1950 turn the other cheek he said or you aren't a follower? Of course he meant what he said or else how can we follow him?

    • @jwu1950
      @jwu1950 2 года назад

      @@ratanaun2960 Exactly. Turn the other cheek and not let yourself be pushed around by others. To be like water is to be focused and persistent, let be but never let go. Water always stay in control and never follow the flow of others. Water makes the inevitable inevitable.
      May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.

  • @pietrusso
    @pietrusso 3 года назад +596

    I love the crossovers between philosophies like Taoism, Buddhism, and Stoicism.

    • @BubbaSmurft
      @BubbaSmurft 2 года назад +52

      ... and Bruceleeism.

    • @alysononoahu8702
      @alysononoahu8702 2 года назад +1

      And AA.

    • @petergriffin110
      @petergriffin110 2 года назад +3

      @@BubbaSmurft I like Bruce

    • @aprilrahee
      @aprilrahee Год назад +1

      what is Taoism, is this a religion?

    • @Thu-wv8kq
      @Thu-wv8kq Год назад +8

      Yeah! Three of them are all taught us about the same things that they was discovered about there is a thing called The Law Of Nature that is always managing everything in the whole universe.
      The only thing that difference between the three of them that is their levers is Miss Buddha has the level that higher than Miss Lao Tzu a little, and Miss stoicism is have the levels that same same the levels from Miss Lao Tzu.
      Only Miss Buddha was totally became enlightened, and Taoism and Stoicism is nearly touched the level of enlightenment.
      There of them did super hugely changed the world so much to so many people has live so much far from their evil and help people live nearer to the level of highly ethics and love and wisdom.

  • @lookupthereupinthetrees9860
    @lookupthereupinthetrees9860 3 года назад +557

    I knew a soldier many years ago, who was arguably the toughest man I've ever known. Elite special forces. He often spoke of his former colleagues and the battles or actions they fought in. What surprised me at a point was that he told me that none of the other men were left alive because they had ALL committed suicide. All of them. They couldn't accept or handle the memory of the actions they had been involved with, and being genuine, tough, masculine individuals they often went to the grave without telling anyone what their problem was. One of these men had his wife pass him he's newborn son and he cried hysterically but never told his wife or anybody what memory the child had triggered. He then deliberately went and got himself killed. What I learned from this man, the softness of his eyes contrasted with the hands in front of him, -the very bare hands that he'd used to kill people, sort of confirms what I've known for some time, and what this video points out. The other men wouldn't yield, or confess, or disclose or seek counseling for their problems. They had it would seem an unyielding view of what a man should be. I think a lot of us do. They seemed to have an inflexible view or handling of their problems. They favored things like self-medicating with alcohol instead of getting genuine help. The only reason I ever heard the stories of these people was because out of a community of incredibly tough people who died by their own hands, there was one man among them who sought help at every turn and that's what saved him. Even in the time I knew him he checked into a psychiatric hospital several times. He let other people help him, and he didn't see obtaining help or even sharing his pain with people like myself as a weakness. We tend to cringe at the idea of man 'complaining' about their problems as somehow unmasculine as 'weakness.' This idea, will get and continue to get people killed. It's not complaining, it's learning how to survive, and that's the proof I've seen with my own eyes.

    • @akito7025
      @akito7025 2 года назад +32

      I think more men need this, thanks for this, i hope that man is doing a lot better now!!

    • @lookupthereupinthetrees9860
      @lookupthereupinthetrees9860 2 года назад +35

      @@akito7025 he features greatly in a book I'm trying to have finished late next year. He had a heart of gold and I want to preserve some of his memory because he died recently.

    • @lookupthereupinthetrees9860
      @lookupthereupinthetrees9860 2 года назад +26

      @@akito7025 but he was happy in the end. I could see it in his eyes.

    • @ashishnirwan14
      @ashishnirwan14 2 года назад +6

      @@lookupthereupinthetrees9860 Name of the book please

    • @jwu1950
      @jwu1950 2 года назад +6

      Death is only an illusion.
      May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 3 года назад +1004

    “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @GamerSix66
      @GamerSix66 3 года назад +5

      I love the work of nietzsche

    • @pacolypps2370
      @pacolypps2370 3 года назад +4

      @@GamerSix66 the uberman

    • @annabellgreyward4184
      @annabellgreyward4184 3 года назад +2

      Question Everything - Thought Provoking Ideas / That is an awesome quote.

    • @Qwerty123zzuy
      @Qwerty123zzuy 3 года назад

      Meh

    • @Viv8ldi
      @Viv8ldi 3 года назад +5

      I am not sure about Nietsches words. He died miserably and depressed in his own soil. How can the words of someone like that ever lead to happyness? They havent helped himself

  • @mhniroomand9597
    @mhniroomand9597 3 года назад +1379

    "Everybody is quoting Someone here "
    __Me

    • @radu921000
      @radu921000 3 года назад +5

      mh niroomand lol

    • @elsajohnson6663
      @elsajohnson6663 3 года назад +18

      Yours is the best!

    • @leyah18
      @leyah18 3 года назад +7

      You got me there 😂

    • @Nitecrow314
      @Nitecrow314 3 года назад +8

      "Everybody is quoting Someone here"
      _mh niroomand

    • @indigo92099
      @indigo92099 3 года назад +30

      “If you want the likes to float, you need a philospher's wisdom to quote.“
      _Me

  • @nata_de_coco1355
    @nata_de_coco1355 3 года назад +118

    I am a Taoist.. only my elder sister who are resilient like water most of the times. No matter how bad the situation or unfairness, nothing shakes her. Not even loneliness. I admire & respect her...❤️

  • @akshataraj1
    @akshataraj1 3 года назад +115

    I am going through a breakup and disheartened situation. This channel has helped me think beyond the worldly problems. I feel better 😊 I hope I find peace within.

    • @scotleoqueen704
      @scotleoqueen704 3 года назад +6

      @Akshata Seetharam Same! 💕 we'll get thru it

    • @KorayRuthlessvillian
      @KorayRuthlessvillian 3 года назад +6

      I just separated from a 6 year relationship, and I feel better now than when I was in a relationship. Some things are just not meant to be and the sooner we move on the sooner we take control.

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад +1

      See the book HANDS OF LIGHT written by the physicist Barbara Brennan. Find peace in knowing you are an eternal image.

    • @hydrynt
      @hydrynt Год назад +1

      I'm emotionally hurt.

  • @MrPersianpoetry
    @MrPersianpoetry 3 года назад +461

    "Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life."
    Miyamoto Musashi

    • @bettyledesma937
      @bettyledesma937 3 года назад +4

      BREVITY IS THE SOUL'S WIT,,, GRATEFUL.

    • @indigochild6079
      @indigochild6079 3 года назад +1

      Famous samurai who trained in the town where I’m from.

    • @razz_tv1859
      @razz_tv1859 2 года назад +2

      Baki

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      "There is no such thing as death".

    • @philc4520
      @philc4520 2 года назад

      Spoken with absolute authority by the man who lived & killed by his own sword.

  • @Joonlai
    @Joonlai 3 года назад +428

    Don’t attach to anything,
    Nothing is permanence,
    Everything will change sooner or later.
    -Buddha

    • @anjellalo972
      @anjellalo972 3 года назад +4

      Well that's sounds like a cold/lonely way to live

    • @anjellalo972
      @anjellalo972 3 года назад +2

      Depressing

    • @Joonlai
      @Joonlai 3 года назад +15

      @@anjellalo972 not depressing but freedom

    • @anjellalo972
      @anjellalo972 3 года назад +3

      @@Joonlai no, not really freedom, that's only freedom in a sense where you don't feel tied down or have responisbilities. How can you be happy if you detach from memories, pets, family, and friends? Throw away items that could be your last memories of someone, that you might forget over time if you don't have a physical reminder of the memory. Yes everything will change sooner or later, but you don't need to speed up the process. You could say detaching from things and people would help you, but really those thoughts come from fear of losing the people close to you. Now for things and junk that's laying around your house, of course throw that away

    • @Joonlai
      @Joonlai 3 года назад +15

      @@anjellalo972 since you will lose everything one day, why do you want to hold them? The more you let everything go now,the less you will suffer when everything really gone.

  • @gokulkrishm51
    @gokulkrishm51 2 года назад +6

    Reminds me of a story I read growing up.
    A huge tree calls it's fellow grass "pathetic". The grass remained silent.
    But when a thunderstorm decided to pay a visit, the huge tree fell down because of the high wind. And after the storm it asked the "pathetic" grass, how is it still the same?
    The grass replied, it's simple, I just bend down for the wind. You don't need to be powerful. You can't win over some things. So you let fly over your head.
    "Be strong enough to be gentle!" :)

  • @caitlinannegrey
    @caitlinannegrey Год назад +72

    Reminds me of my poem I wrote a couple months back:
    The mutability of my perception
    The trickle of curiosity I provoke
    I have the power to erode
    I have the power to take form
    I could be an oasis, or I could be a storm
    The element of water, through which my creativity cascades
    I am the reflection of the heavens and my own Creator
    I am as wavering as the ocean
    I am also as still as the seine
    I am frozen like ice
    I am also boiling at times
    And at others, I am vaporized
    But I am still water
    Not always still water.
    Sometimes I’m a wild rapid.
    Sometimes I’m harder, and sometimes I’m softer.
    I am water.

    • @thomasbentley5266
      @thomasbentley5266 Год назад +1

      Be at peace, be as water.

    • @StargazerYo
      @StargazerYo Год назад

      Very nice poem Caitlin, thanks for sharing 🙏 offers some great reflection

    • @anmolmathur4312
      @anmolmathur4312 Год назад +1

      What beautiful words!

    • @TheAGODAMI
      @TheAGODAMI Год назад

      👍 *ThanK you (CaiTLyN).!!* ❤

    • @nepenthe_1610
      @nepenthe_1610 Год назад

      Beautifully written. Thanks for sharing

  • @QuestionEverythingButWHY
    @QuestionEverythingButWHY 3 года назад +500

    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
    ― Isaac Asimov

    • @nirkaya7438
      @nirkaya7438 3 года назад

      let's break walls and windows !

    • @keithkaitlinreynolds808
      @keithkaitlinreynolds808 3 года назад

      ...so it isn't fair of me to assume you have a quote which combines the topics of taoism/stoicism/cats...?

    • @peyton4310
      @peyton4310 3 года назад

      needed that

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      The heaviest assumption is that solidity/the physical exists.

  • @ashishverma9840
    @ashishverma9840 3 года назад +263

    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless , like water -- Bruce Lee

    • @valentinsannyas9889
      @valentinsannyas9889 3 года назад +19

      My friend

    • @MrGarrett
      @MrGarrett 3 года назад +18

      @@valentinsannyas9889 yeah, it's not the same without "my friend"

    • @trope5105
      @trope5105 2 года назад +4

      He was basically quoting his friend jiddu krishnamurti in that interview

    • @trope5105
      @trope5105 2 года назад

      @@brushfuller330 lol, can you put some context into that statement? are you doggin on krishnamurti or somethin?

    • @trope5105
      @trope5105 2 года назад

      @@brushfuller330 are you cool or somethin? dont put on a front, just say what you have to say, i zen out too, but im not a monk, so im real in the way i communicate.
      So what are you trying to sayY>??

  • @kurp66
    @kurp66 3 года назад +62

    “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
    - Bruce Lee

    • @raoniafonso
      @raoniafonso 3 года назад +4

      "Be water, my friend." Has been my WhatsApp status for at least 8 years

  • @MrWaterbugdesign
    @MrWaterbugdesign 3 года назад +5

    This concept helped me get past road rage. Someone on the radio said be the river and go around rocks in the stream. Slow drivers were the rocks. Don't get mad at rocks. This thinking evolved to where I switched from being water to being a rock in the stream...a safer driver.

  • @andrescarnederes2295
    @andrescarnederes2295 3 года назад +609

    It reminds me of how certain religious people view God. They view him as this rigid being who doesn't understand the complexity of life and sees everything as black and white, when in fact life is complex and God is probably even more complex. We should (in my opinion) chill and enjoy this ride of life and learn to appreciate others and empathize with them instead of being so judgemental all the time. It sounds cheesy as hell I know, but I seriously think this was the mission of Christ on the earth. Not establishing a rigid religion that determines whether you go to heaven or hell, I think.

    • @markm371
      @markm371 3 года назад +22

      great perspective

    • @bladediamond3505
      @bladediamond3505 3 года назад +7

      💛

    • @stephtheweirddogperson4930
      @stephtheweirddogperson4930 3 года назад +15

      I completely agree. May you always have peace☮️

    • @amondal3442
      @amondal3442 3 года назад +17

      Hello, Jesus is the name of love. His own life is the perfect example of love and sacrifice.
      It is middel age most of the European church authorities who only focus on the doctrine of hell punishment and sine and take control and power over society even more than king - the background reason may be political dominence but one
      should see and feel Jesus life of sacrifice and love ask question what I feel among such torment can able to think welfare of all in such condition that was his love,
      Even his last advise was love God as I love you and love your neighbor as yourself.

    • @victorianastav4969
      @victorianastav4969 3 года назад +8

      James B. Irwin (astronaut who drove the Lunar Rover on the Dark Side of the Moon) said "It's not a miracle that man walked on the moon, it's a miracle that Jesus walked the Earth." We are the miracle. Yes, be like Jesus. This is our heaven, our Eden. Forgive but don't forget.

  • @trantinto
    @trantinto 3 года назад +610

    The universe is endless and anything can happen.

    • @resoundingsource6595
      @resoundingsource6595 3 года назад +16

      & it all does, eventually ;)

    • @TheCHEDDARCHEESENIPS
      @TheCHEDDARCHEESENIPS 3 года назад +13

      Thank for some reason thinking about this really helped me out of a terrible mood i was having

    • @michaeldunne8055
      @michaeldunne8055 3 года назад +6

      If the universe is endless and anything can happen can the universe end?

    • @rach1530
      @rach1530 3 года назад +8

      If you’re not asleep you’re awake

    • @sidlopes4429
      @sidlopes4429 3 года назад

      [oh my] let me find out "Young Saitama" wise beyond his years.😉

  • @jonathanwhitfield2864
    @jonathanwhitfield2864 2 года назад +28

    I feel I found these videos on Taoism and Buddhism at the exact moment I needed them; everything I have heard so far is applicable to my own life and the painful situations I am currently going through. Every word was profound and enlightening, every quote struck a chord and resonated deeply within me. now my load seems much easier to carry. An unnecessary weight was removed from my shoulders, as well as my heart. now I can breathe again.
    after watching several of these in a row, I suddenly feel a stillness within myself; I am serene, at peace.
    I have realized that I am ultimately the only person who can hurt myself, and that I have been hurting myself this entire time. I am glad I am still alive, still trying. I don't have to suffer just because I feel pain right now, and happiness is not unobtainable. thank you, to whom or whatever led me to finding this. and thank you, Einzelganger, for making these videos.

    • @OwlofAsia
      @OwlofAsia Год назад

      When the student is ready the teacher will appear

    • @trumtrum5136
      @trumtrum5136 8 месяцев назад

      Pain is born from lies. So of course, honesty will always strike chords for those in pain.

  • @Ana-rb7ws
    @Ana-rb7ws 3 года назад +98

    The soft overcomes the hard.
    Don’t force anything.
    The soft approach is superior to using force when it comes to long term results, as well as saving our energy and maintains a tranquil mind.
    Don’t abstain from force completely, save it for the right opportunity.
    Every situation has a positive to it.
    Undesired characteristics have positive aspects to them.
    Water always seeks the lower places.
    Life is characterized by softness, and softness is strength.
    Be like water.

  • @punishedvenomsnake716
    @punishedvenomsnake716 3 года назад +221

    Taoism is my favorite philosophy of thought and my life changed when I discovered it.

    • @isaaclalla722
      @isaaclalla722 3 года назад +10

      I can say the same. It changed everything for me

    • @ConceptualJoesMadeUpAdventures
      @ConceptualJoesMadeUpAdventures 3 года назад +6

      Is there a book you would recommend for a complete novice in Taoism?

    • @tracywilliamsliterature
      @tracywilliamsliterature 3 года назад +2

      I have recently come to the Dao... I feel the same

    • @noidreculse8906
      @noidreculse8906 3 года назад +6

      Taoism and Zen the only things that make sense to me. 😍

    • @isaaclalla722
      @isaaclalla722 3 года назад +3

      Be PrEsEnT Tao te Ching by Lao tzu the recognized founder of Taoism

  • @27jerry27
    @27jerry27 3 года назад +457

    "Be like Water, my Friend"
    - Bruce Lee

    • @satriakesumap
      @satriakesumap 3 года назад +45

      “Be like Friend,my Water”
      - Lee Bruce

    • @mjolninja9358
      @mjolninja9358 3 года назад +21

      Gentleman Life School
      “Water be like, My Friend”
      -Bee Lruce

    • @erojerisiz1571
      @erojerisiz1571 3 года назад +3

      @@mjolninja9358 That sounds like something Yoda would say

    • @nolisarmiento1719
      @nolisarmiento1719 3 года назад +6

      running water never grows stale..so you just have to 'keep on flowing' - Bruce Lee

    • @mettacognizant
      @mettacognizant 3 года назад +6

      “Hence, a famous actor, philosopher, and martial artist once said...” my name is Bruce Lee! Lol

  • @JillsMusic3
    @JillsMusic3 Месяц назад

    Everyone should be aware of this. Especially our beautiful children, in and out of school. Such a great reminder of who we are and what we can be.

  • @silentladyd
    @silentladyd 3 года назад +26

    "People that are rigid and stern ..." - insert picture of a donkey, it cracked me up!

  • @IconsandIdeas
    @IconsandIdeas 3 года назад +229

    Connecting Yin and Yang to Taoism was such a good idea. Never saw the connection till now. There's times for stress/action (Yang), and there's times for observation/relaxation (Yin). Taoism is the art of moving between the two effortlessly.

    • @resoundingsource6595
      @resoundingsource6595 3 года назад +5

      absolutely, striking that balance - or perhaps, getting out of the way, so as to let the balance naturally unfolding & Be.

    • @dg4720
      @dg4720 3 года назад +27

      I thought that Daoism teaches yin and yang...?

    • @petitdragon8997
      @petitdragon8997 3 года назад +19

      yin and yang are principles from taoism

    • @user-lx7vn5kf5v
      @user-lx7vn5kf5v 2 года назад

      You probably haven't watch Bruce Lee's Philosophies

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      Yin and Yang symbolize the positive and negative poles of the atom.

  • @FutureMindset
    @FutureMindset 3 года назад +237

    The ultimate superhuman is a Taoist stoic who's mastered the duality of yin and yang and embraced the Buddhist philosophy of acceptance.

    • @pierrolosapio1042
      @pierrolosapio1042 3 года назад +7

      The Ultimate Superhuman is a Buddha or a Guru which doesn't see any duality

    • @theoldfirm6046
      @theoldfirm6046 3 года назад +6

      Polarity and duality exist whether they say it or not, they recognise it is one of the laws of life.

    • @Enigma_Vids
      @Enigma_Vids 3 года назад +2

      Perhaps we need to create something that nurtures this superhuman philosophy

    • @isiahzion9365
      @isiahzion9365 3 года назад +3

      Or a newborn baby

    • @brendansmith2545
      @brendansmith2545 3 года назад +3

      I was just going to make a comment similair to this... funny because taoist philosophy and stoic philosophy are my favorites, and I see them as yin and yang... very useful to apply teachings from both sides :) Now I see I should look into buddhism, thankyou

  • @sonnycrockett2079
    @sonnycrockett2079 Год назад +22

    Bruce Lee was the first one in my lifetime to bring Taoism to the forefront of my experience at age 10 and led me to Lao Tzu and others.
    You should’ve mentioned his name at the end; Bruce was not just a martial artist and an actor, but a force of nature who flowed with the Tao for a short time…..and then was gone.

    • @KukumEesinekapo
      @KukumEesinekapo 9 месяцев назад

      True! My daughters who are now in their 20s, fell in love with Bruce Lee’s movies and with him eventually. They literally drank his words like a kid do with all their characters they like and they really understood « Be like water my friend 😊) at an early age. What started as a joke, slowly slipped into their minds and saw the real meaning of it growing older 💕
      Funny how something so insignificant at first can grow into a solid foundation to get through life and its challenges

  • @Aleyah
    @Aleyah 2 года назад +11

    I found this at the right time. This is universe speaking to me. Such calm and peace I feel after watching your videos. I can't thank you enough!!!

  • @EMunaBee
    @EMunaBee 3 года назад +33

    This reminds me of a 40 year old man named Akiva, a shepherd & laborer, who couldn't read. He saw water softly, slowly trickling down a brook, hitting a rock, little drip by drip. While it was gentle, it was constant & Akiva realized something: there was a hole in that rock exactly where the water touched it. He pondered what he saw & concluded that if gentle water could make a hole in a hard, solid rock, then words of Truth - like iron - could make a real impression on his heart.
    He changed his life, began to study - for 24 years straight, beginning with sitting in a classroom with the young children learning letters - & he became the greatest leader of his time, directly teaching thousands of people.
    Like gentle drops of water, little changes, small experiences, barely perceptible learning can all add up - even more than those huge moments of enlightenment - & make a lasting impression on us & how we live our lives.

    • @sahelikarati5924
      @sahelikarati5924 3 года назад

      I am from india and I have read same story just with a different name.

    • @frontsidegrinder6858
      @frontsidegrinder6858 2 года назад

      Dröpje by Dröpje to success, so natural and simple.

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      Rocks are constantly being created as images. Must take billions of quarks of light smashed together to cause rocks to feel hard.

    • @brushfuller330
      @brushfuller330 Год назад

      @@pureenergy4578 thank you so much. I've always wanted to know that

  • @AlexBlank
    @AlexBlank 3 года назад +312

    Taoism: Be like water.
    Stoicism: Be like a rock the waves crash over.
    Well, if we are to accept impermanence, we might as well be both.

    • @Americanninjaman
      @Americanninjaman 3 года назад +25

      My favorite philosophies and perfectly put

    • @healthya7975
      @healthya7975 3 года назад +7

      Ice

    • @mjolninja9358
      @mjolninja9358 3 года назад +2

      Alex Blank a rock under the ocean

    • @Andredz
      @Andredz 3 года назад +32

      Smooth like water, impassive like ice, and free like vapour

    • @erojerisiz1571
      @erojerisiz1571 3 года назад +36

      Taoism: Yin
      Stoicism: Yang

  • @emotional_girlll20
    @emotional_girlll20 15 дней назад

    Lao Tzu knew what we were going to go through. Daoism teachings are absolutely for our era. Whatever religion you are, study Daoism.

  • @jennieskinner3886
    @jennieskinner3886 Год назад +1

    Trying to learn that everything is impermanent. Letting go of unhealthy attachments every day. Stay blessed everyone & spread love!

  • @Eternalised
    @Eternalised 3 года назад +118

    I love this, Taoism is fascinating. The Tao, like water flows everywhere, to the left and to the right and it loves everything. It nurtures animals and plants and then moves on without seeking praise, when good things are happening, it is not there to receive any thanks.
    Edit: Loving the editing, I have so much to learn from you :D

  • @KenJKnight
    @KenJKnight 3 года назад +14

    Just today I listened Bruce Lees: Warrior within. Be water my friends!

    • @miguelchippsinteligente6072
      @miguelchippsinteligente6072 3 года назад

      Tesla referenced human energy 🌪👻jesus christ referenced living waters 💎🤍science described water memory 🌊👨‍🎓existence reflecting psychologically psalms16:24 k,j 👻💎🤍👨‍🎓🗽💞🌪

  • @Alex722
    @Alex722 2 года назад +3

    I didn't know anything about Taoism, but this video it's like watching everything I have inside me all these years and could never explain better...
    Resonates 100% with me.

  • @rpeezus4788
    @rpeezus4788 3 года назад +32

    I am a black male who happens to be a pisces and this has never made more sense than it does today!

    • @carlduffin
      @carlduffin 3 года назад +10

      I am white and happen to be a Taurus and these definitions have absolutely no bearing or meaning whatsoever.

    • @caob1876
      @caob1876 3 года назад +2

      Here's a cookie? What a dumb comment

    • @tombradydid9114
      @tombradydid9114 2 года назад +2

      Im a hispanic man and i want to play Mortal Kombat now

    • @ddp47297
      @ddp47297 2 года назад +3

      Im asian and im watching this at 3am

    • @Missisippy
      @Missisippy Год назад +1

      I'm an alien. You humans are hilarious.

  • @sfshaman
    @sfshaman 3 года назад +21

    Right in time - I was hijacked by anger today. Thanks!

    • @sfshaman
      @sfshaman 3 года назад

      @Mona Liz Dzieki za Power of Now! Ten Eckhart jest niesamowity :)

  • @Philosophyof
    @Philosophyof Год назад +5

    Everytime I feel terrible about myself and the course of my life, you always have a way of impacting it. Bringing me a sense of peace with the situations. I don't know how many times, this video has helped me, I truly appreciate your content.

    • @trumtrum5136
      @trumtrum5136 8 месяцев назад

      Don't torture yourself with the problems of liars

  • @ChristyAlicia
    @ChristyAlicia 2 месяца назад

    I just wrote a poem like this.. 'be liquid'. A caterpillar becomes liquid when in the cocoon before becoming a butterfly or what have you. We do this over and over when we are tragically blessed enough to be so fortunate.

  • @moisavictoria
    @moisavictoria 3 года назад +2

    I love the shawshank state movie the amount of patience Andy has is unbelieveable i wish to have that

  • @suchethhegde8637
    @suchethhegde8637 3 года назад +43

    These are made and edited beautifully, thank you for the content

    • @VerenaSatriani
      @VerenaSatriani 3 года назад +2

      Sucheth Hegde isn't amazing when we just trust the process that the Universe take control? Flow like water. Have an amazing weekend Sucheth. God bless.

  • @dev4911
    @dev4911 3 года назад +24

    "Never wink at nuns" - Me.

  • @BryerTheKing1
    @BryerTheKing1 2 года назад +1

    Water is life as it flows with change!

  • @ladylacrimal8447
    @ladylacrimal8447 3 года назад +9

    Alexander Hamilton was also shot to death in a duel. His inflexibility and strong stance got him killed.

  • @TheDhammaHub
    @TheDhammaHub 3 года назад +41

    Thinking definitely has its merits. But as with everything, there is a beneficial interval in the middle. If you are unable to interrupt your thinking, you have the opposite qualities of water!

    • @DeidaraC5
      @DeidaraC5 3 года назад +1

      I would say this applies more to stoicism and the concept of temperance. Contemplate pain but don't dwell on it too much. And then in this process you become like water.

  • @alexanderreva3905
    @alexanderreva3905 3 года назад +3

    Example with the Shawshank redemption is very helpful to understand and to explain the idea of being in a flow. Thank you

  • @dbsk06
    @dbsk06 3 года назад +2

    Wow this graphic designer deserves a raise. Love these graphics

  • @ardeshir6982
    @ardeshir6982 3 года назад +2

    An scholar once said : wisdom is creativity. Indeed, the wise person is creative and can adapt to the ever changing situtations of the world. Just like water.

  • @kaanapalibaby
    @kaanapalibaby 3 года назад +15

    There's one more substantive meaning of flow. In tai chi, originally a Taoist art, flow is the ability to link one movement to the next. When one goes without stopping/starting, not speeding up or slowing down there is a palpable energy that emerges, and the mind becomes more calm. After practicing this way there is the sensation of being elated and invigorated.

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      Energy and light are ONE. These are always flowing and spinning into images.

  • @lyceumofphilosophy9392
    @lyceumofphilosophy9392 3 года назад +48

    The living are soft and yielding; The dead are rigid and dry and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry.” - Laozi Dao de Jing

    • @user-yx6eh7ue6e
      @user-yx6eh7ue6e 3 года назад +1

      Good analogy My grandgrand always tell me that since I was young wonder where you might have heard this from??

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      Even the brittle and dry flow as energy and light.

  • @justwanderinginair
    @justwanderinginair 3 года назад +2

    After lot of mental stress I finally understand acceptance is the only solution, difficult to bring it to practice though. Nice video at the right time.

  • @hanalbaaaltmk
    @hanalbaaaltmk 9 месяцев назад +1

    Small action from the present make big change in the future 🔥

  • @sujatarai2730
    @sujatarai2730 3 года назад +3

    So much positivity.❤💫🌿

  • @noreenjenny7039
    @noreenjenny7039 3 года назад +8

    Seeing positive in negative is a good reflection. Softness is strength ❤ happy to adapt and grow! Thank you 🙏❤❤

  • @phatnguyen4072
    @phatnguyen4072 2 года назад

    Taoism taught me that Life is constantly changes. Be like water to be formlesss, softlessness. If yI have a wate-like mindset, I can adapt any circumstance.

  • @Johny40Se7en
    @Johny40Se7en 3 года назад +2

    Tao-ism is one gorgeous philosophy which I'm going to focus on more in life, especially the softness part. Thank you for the lovely video.

  • @Player_Twelve
    @Player_Twelve 3 года назад +16

    I found you about a year ago and you've made a huge impact in my life Einzelgänger. Keep doing what you do. It's been a rough couple years and these videos really have helped me.

  • @johannatheone
    @johannatheone 3 года назад +3

    "For what has been - Thank you.
    For what will come- Yes"
    -Dag Hammarskjöld

  • @soniahaydee868
    @soniahaydee868 Год назад +1

    Beautiful beautiful 👍❗️

  • @ansumuth5626
    @ansumuth5626 6 месяцев назад

    Wow...water itself teaches us many stuffs applicable to life

  • @jejetv4323
    @jejetv4323 2 года назад +3

    Excellent lesson, it's not about not forcing it's about to use force at the right moment thank you.

  • @SunnyIcedQueen
    @SunnyIcedQueen 3 года назад +12

    I had a hypnosis session this summer where I saw a “past, present or future” version of myself as water. I adapted and floated around my surroundings. I was connected to everything and my emotions changed according to every being I encountered which wasn’t a lot as I was somewhere in the galaxy. The interesting part however was when I was left suspended, alone and without living beings around me, I could no longer survive and I passed on to the afterlife. It was a profound experience.

    • @taliaaalia5175
      @taliaaalia5175 3 года назад

      What’s a hypnosis session entail? Beautiful summary. Thank you for sharing 💙🐠

    • @SunnyIcedQueen
      @SunnyIcedQueen 3 года назад +1

      @@taliaaalia5175 I had what is known as a qhht session. One is guided to a deep hypnosis and you are able to connect with past lives, usually a maximum of three. The water was the third one. The first two lives were also very detailed and as I was very aware of what I was doing, just suspended within my subconscious. You can Google or RUclips about qhht. There is alot of information out there. I would like to think I imagined it all.....but I always wonder, if I indeed imagined it, why did I decided to become water and experience what I did?!

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      NDEs and OBEs teach us that there are unlimited dimensions, each one spinning and vibrating with the energy of mind. We are an afterlife now, IF there was such a thing as time. Which there is not. Stop the earth from spinning and you will see we are always in the NOW no matter where we are.

  • @popsfishing
    @popsfishing Год назад

    My favorite motto in life! Be like water!

  • @TheThora17
    @TheThora17 2 года назад

    One of my favourite episodes on all of RUclips

  • @TheusKhan
    @TheusKhan 3 года назад +4

    Thank you so much for the captions. The importance for those who don't speak English fluently and those who are deaf is tremendously.

  • @philnightjar1971
    @philnightjar1971 3 года назад +4

    "I am usually quoted in military topics and not here"
    - Sun Tzu

  • @hanalbaaaltmk
    @hanalbaaaltmk 9 месяцев назад +1

    Water, live, differences, adapt, change

  • @cdmarkandu
    @cdmarkandu 2 года назад +2

    This channel gives so much value and helps me work through so many things. Thank you.

  • @vlatkodr7102
    @vlatkodr7102 3 года назад +14

    The quality of your videos, deep wisdom presented and even younr voice, everything is so good. You are one of my favorite youtubers. Thank you!

  • @IamDrDapper
    @IamDrDapper 2 года назад +3

    God, your channel is absolute gold. Keep up the good work!
    Learning about these things is so relaxing

    • @pureenergy4578
      @pureenergy4578 2 года назад

      Physics is the best subject to learn that we are constantly flowing as we are being created.

  • @ewelinajasinska9998
    @ewelinajasinska9998 Год назад

    I'm grateful for this amazing flavour of Taoisms. May Universe bless Tao.

  • @atallnobody934
    @atallnobody934 2 года назад +2

    This video has become such a Blessing To Me; a message and puzzle piece that helps my mind unraveling the rigid ness I was conditioned to perceive

  • @MegaDublinguy
    @MegaDublinguy 3 года назад +5

    Your videos are like a refreshing glass of water when I'm parched!

  • @Derlet30
    @Derlet30 3 года назад +8

    Such an amazing video! I had the privilege of studying Eastern Philosophy as part of my academic degree and it truly changed my life.
    I am Christian, but with an Eastern philosophy orientation. And this video brings much joy to me.
    Thank you so much for producing it! ❤

  • @paris1461
    @paris1461 Год назад +2

    Taoism has always interested me, and I truly enjoyed this video.

    • @mcmacshalfilya
      @mcmacshalfilya Год назад

      Well, the good news is we're already made of mostly water.

  • @vibration_ascension
    @vibration_ascension 3 года назад +2

    "There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way"
    - Buddha

  • @radu921000
    @radu921000 3 года назад +3

    Commenting for the algorithm, scroll along 😊

  • @livingartdesigns06
    @livingartdesigns06 3 года назад +5

    Beautiful and accurate video as to how one should conduct one's life, regardless of opposition or circumstances. Life is much wealthier and more complex paradoxically by taking a simple and humble approach. Connecting with and unifying with nature is the humble approach that will lead to true long lasting happiness, peace, and lucidity.

  • @justalexilife
    @justalexilife Год назад +2

    This video is full of so many valuable gems of knowledge & wisdom. Very enlightening. ✨

  • @jeffreydonovan4433
    @jeffreydonovan4433 3 года назад +2

    This was beautiful! What a perfect way to start the day. Thank you so much.

  • @nickgogoladze1824
    @nickgogoladze1824 3 года назад +8

    In the past i know this quote, be like a water, but now i comprehend what's really is❤️

  • @TyDreacon
    @TyDreacon 3 года назад +4

    "Judging each other as human doings rather than human beings" - Oh I am so stealing that one.

  • @williammorales-gonzalez1637
    @williammorales-gonzalez1637 7 месяцев назад

    That "stand for something, or fall for ANYTHING," thing I've pondered for a while, a question in response!
    "How sure ARE you that what you 'stand for' ISN'T something you fell for!??!"
    😒
    Question everything TO adapt and change.👍👊❤

  • @DARKSTONE999
    @DARKSTONE999 3 года назад

    I thank universe & everything that holds it together for directing me 2 ur channel

  • @DrLizListens
    @DrLizListens 3 года назад +6

    We are all water benders.
    Let it go, let it flow.

    • @coffee_club
      @coffee_club 3 года назад +1

      Flow state

    • @DrLizListens
      @DrLizListens 3 года назад

      @@coffee_club exactly! Now to be in a flow state 24/7...

  • @erojerisiz1571
    @erojerisiz1571 3 года назад +10

    "Nothing can compete with it"
    Air: am I a joke to you?

    • @peejm1424
      @peejm1424 3 года назад +1

      Omg! Awesome thought! Just goes to show someone's always got a different angle.

    • @chengongzheng814
      @chengongzheng814 3 года назад

      Air: who is me, H2O? CO2? Dust? Or be anything? Or be nothing.
      Water: yes brother, I just be like you who can be nothing or anything.
      Air: so why nothing can compete with water?
      Water: who is air? air is nothing. So nothing can compete with water, or "nothing" Can compete with water.

  • @melindajaneelliott9715
    @melindajaneelliott9715 Год назад

    Sending love and gratitude 🙏

  • @AlmightyMostActive
    @AlmightyMostActive Год назад

    This is Beautiful and wonderfully presented!!! Love from the Mericas

  • @VandanaSharma-ud8gd
    @VandanaSharma-ud8gd 3 года назад +4

    Exactly the words I needed to hear, I hope you know that people appreciate you alot❤️ you're great!

  • @Primalsutra
    @Primalsutra 3 года назад +3

    " *_May the Flow be with you_* "- Sumedh, Flow State Coach.

    • @hollyjaw3303
      @hollyjaw3303 3 года назад

      Stop this New Age shit please, we are talking ancient traditions here

    • @Primalsutra
      @Primalsutra 3 года назад

      @@hollyjaw3303 there’s nothing “new age” about Flow state... it’s a science 🤣

    • @hollyjaw3303
      @hollyjaw3303 3 года назад

      @@Primalsutra lol

  • @tuccum
    @tuccum 3 года назад

    Extremely insightful and useful. 🌄. Flo🌼. Thank you for airing 🕊️

  • @soulshine7734
    @soulshine7734 Год назад +1

    Food for my mind 🙏

  • @karolbednarczyk3107
    @karolbednarczyk3107 3 года назад +6

    Water evaporates all the time, even if is not boiling.

  • @LuvOfLalaland
    @LuvOfLalaland 2 года назад +2

    This video summarised what I have learned from all experiences in the past year. Thanks

  • @amberwilson6162
    @amberwilson6162 2 года назад

    Thank you🙏 Blessed Be💙

  • @battragon
    @battragon 3 года назад +5

    "Water can flow.. or it can crash... " ^^