The Tao of Kung Fu #21 - "We only know good because of evil"

[SamFreedom]

The workd is a container but not a temple.  It started off as a sludge pit. Would you call your science kit a temple, or a laboratory? Or would you think that anything is just whatever you want to call it?

[Augalv]

I wish this world was a temple rather a place where murder, rape, torture, child abuse, corruption is abundant.

[TurquoiseLamp]

@Augalv I was brought up in a Buddhist temple. It's a beautiful place, but not exempt from negativity.Many people who came to seek refuge from the world outside brought their own negative views with them. There were still fights, nasty gossip, incidents of crime in the monastery. It doesn't matter if the world is a temple or remains as it is. A prison may contain enlightened people and a temple may contain criminals. The concept of 'place' is irrelevant, our minds create our experience.

[TurquoiseLamp]

@Augalv Having said that, I can understand the wish to end the suffering which arises from the crimes you mention. I guess I'm saying that the world already is a temple, it's just that we don't treat it as such. Kind wishes, :-)

[Augalv]

@TurquoiseLamp Your comments make a lot of sense. Thanks

All the best

[MrHkvideo18]

This is wonderful

[TroutButter]

@FireWhisp Yet, evil and good are just labels we give to something based on our experience. What one thinks is good others may not, and what one thinks is evil others may not. Thus, it does not make sense to me that something can be purely good or purely evil since these two are not constants.

[loveyourwhiteshoes]

EXACTLY!! They way I think aobut it!

[missinformationage]

beavis and butthead said something like this...if none of the channels sucked, how would we know what's cool?

[TaoFAQ]

@missinformationage Haha! Well said.

[TroutButter]

@missinformationage LOL! Ah yes, Beavis and Butthead were more wise than many first thought.

Long live The Great Cornholio!

[yacket]

this clip makes me cry for some reason. it was cool of you to find these and upload them. i'm sending share link to my mom, she loved this show.

[tigerstrenght]

hey great uploads yingyangnature just wondering were can i get this dvd from...

thank you brother keep them coming!!

[yinyangnature]

@tigerstrenght The DVDs were released a few years ago. I recently saw them available to buy at JB Hi Fi. However you can watch most episodes of Kung Fu on the YouTube channel called "girlfromrio".

[tigerstrenght]

@yinyangnature thanks man well appreciated i want to get this dvd be4 i go to china... cant believe i havent seen it before, ill see how i go anyway thanx again brother

[tigerstrenght]

@yinyangnature thanks man well appreciated i want to get this dvd be4 i go to china for training :P... cant believe i havent seen it before(great philosophy and wisdom, ill see how i go anyway thanx again brother

[westlibertytopper]

Nice snippet of philosophy. I heard the same explaination when the questions was asked how could God have permitted the Holocaust. Only in times of raw evil will there also be examples of pure good. Thank you yingyangnature for taking the time to post this and other videos.

[thelifeuwant]

thanks

[EricOfBodomMan]

well this glad there is ignorance cause this video is full of knowledge!

[mp3peris]

Tao Te Ching is an exceptional scared script, my respect to Taoism.

[ji9mpopin]

is that qia joh kane? also do not fallow others paths your is a road to travel .

[yinyangnature]

@ji9mpopin.

It's from the book of the ancient Chinese Taoist sage Lao Tzu. It's commonly called "Tao Te Ching".

[friendlybeverge]

Sweet

[Musashi334]

Thank you for these great uploads yinyangnature. I love these great philosophical quotes.

[yinyangnature]

Thank you.

[cathyginter]

Yes, I would make the whole world a temple.

[yinyangnature]

Then a temple would be of no great significance. Like if the weather was always fine, there would be nothing special about a warm sunny day.

[cathyginter]

"She who is centered in the Tao can go where she wishes, without danger. She perceives the universal harmony, even amid great pain, because she has found peace in her heart." -Lao Tzu

[RedCrescentDemon]

@yinyangnature LOL good point. The rarer an occurence or quality or item is, the more special and meaningful it is. Right?

[yinyangnature]

@RedCrescentDemon Indeed. We can only appreciate anything by also knowing of it's opposite. Put in Relativistic terms - Reality is a point of view based on sensory awareness of opposites previously experienced and the reality thus then created by an isolated individual.

[RedCrescentDemon]

@yinyangnature In other words, reality is in the eye of the beholder. Right?

[AegisNova]

Some would say the whole world is a temple.

[MidnightDC696969]

Darkness within darkness the gateway to all understanding

[anilomd]

Thank you for posting this.

[LeaveMeAlone99a]

I tell you, Keye Luke was just legendary playing Master Po during Kung Fu.

I was, however, surprised that during the taping of this show he was considered a real "ladies man" and had whole entourages of women on the set tending to his every need.

Truly, a "master" in front of and behind the camera.

[stonecoldjason]

I'm a christian, I wish more preachers would preach like the master here teaches

[Dovelike]

There is a duality in our existence. Man woman love hate generous selfish. It is a fact of our existence. We need to accept this.

[MidnightDC696969]

nah coz before there is good or bad there is Tao. good and bad are concepts, the yin yang simply show duality not + or - in any way, before you divide it there is a perfect circle

[Dovelike]

Thanks for your input. I am a newcomer to understanding the Tao. You are saying a perfect circle. How do we experience this perfect circle? Eliminating desire? Everyday humans experience happiness and sadness.

[MidnightDC696969]

you have to see that happiness and sadness are different ways to describe the same emotion 'life', life is felt through the senses and emotions and felt experience is the most real experience you can have, its like happy or sad are the yin yang or division but LIFE is the perfect circle...i hope that helps i am pretty new to this aswell, you can come by my channel and check out my Tao Te Ching uploads

peace =)

[AegisNova]

@Dovelike It is not necessarily the desire that is "bad" -- it is our attachment to our desire (how much it rules over us which can be the problem.

[Dovelike]

Yes well said. I like money but I am not attached to it where for some people looking at the bank statements gives them happiness. If you think about money everyday worrying about how much things cost all then it is a problem. I want to get married but I am not unhappy because I am single. What's interesting is I am beginning to believe the less you want the more things come into your life unexpectedly.

[AegisNova]

Yes, I let my desires control me too much when I was young -- not so much when It came to money, but being single, etc. -- and things did not go well. Continue to be not unhappy with being single. Continue to be yourself. I think you are close to a truth when you say the less you want things, the more things come unexpectedly. Best regards.

[geekeing]

@Dovelike ......go beyond your limits..question what you believe...unlearn...

[ldonhawk]

Please, keep uploading these. These are spiritual treasures.  Thank you.

[kgonepostl]

The star shines bright because it is clouded by darkness

[AegisNova]

Poetic, but the star is not clouded by darkness...

[kgonepostl]

He's very confused throughout the series

Confusion leads to fear

fear leads to hatred

hatred leads to death

- Yoda :)

[lalijan21]

@kgonepostl - suffering - it was leads to suffering xD (at least at the fragment I saw - but there was like 6 parts in the series and i haven't seen even one - so You might be still right xD) Anyway death is not that bad since the guy who's dead is somewhere else - and only people who percive somebody 'die' actually experiance death.

[TurquoiseLamp]

@kgonepostl

I was sure yoda said: Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

Wise words. I used to often think of them when I was a child. :-)

[kgonepostl]

@TurquoiseLamp Your correct, I just said what I rembered

[23skeedoo]

Even as a young child, this series grabbed my spirit. I followed kung fu and karate and the discipline that kept my compass needle pointing north. The sensei used to say "The best punch is the one not thrown". Hardship will lead to joy, joy to hardship. Sounds hippie dippie, but true. Ultimately, we share the same fate, no reason to fear death just as no reason to fear life. I trust nature to put me right back where it got me.

[mgeldis84]

RIP

[naflodi]

I often feel great sadness over the conflicts in the world. So what am I suppose to do. Be happy that there is ugliness so I can better appreciate beauty? I don't think so.

[yinyangnature]

How would you understand anything at all without it's opposite aspect to serve as a contrast? If you could just grasp this simple concept, everything would fall into place and make more sense.

[jaranu]

If there was no beauty, then there is no ugliness.

If there is no ugliness, the is no beauty.

Simple as that.

It doesn't mean be glad there is ugliness.

It means that accept that there is, and that because of it, we can see beauty.

[MusicMan20061210]

And because we are conscious beings,we have a choice. We can choose to support ugliness or beauty,or life or death.

Also: those who worship evil feed on those that cherish life. The haters would perish on their own. Hence,even if they are a threat, they carry no importance in life and are impotent.

[warrior350es]

I really like these, keep uploading them.

[wolfinside]

Indeed. What would life be without the contrast?

[wolfinside]

I hate to admit it, but I have a sweet tooth. Scientists say that people (like me) with a sweet tooth have a higher sensitivity to bitter tastes. This is certainly true for me. I also smoke cigars but can only tolerate the dark sweet ones. The light bitter ones are overpowering for me. Because of this I am looking for a doctor who will remove all of the taste buds from my mouth that sense bitterness. In this way I will only be able to taste the sweetness of life.

[yinyangnature]

I also have a sweet tooth, but I also enjoy savoury foods. Have you ever noticed that you can feel full on the main course, but always find room for dessert? There always seems room for something of a contrasting flavour doesn't there? And how could we experience the sensation of sweet without savoury?

[marktrumble9]

thank you

[wolfinside]

Buy a wooden dowel.

Paint one half white. Then paint the other half black. (so that the two colors meet at the balance point)

Place it on the ground.

Then, .... try to pick up the white half without also picking up the black end as well.

[walkingbear56]

Congratulations on these videos.. they get better and better.

(I recently bought Wayne Dyers book/slant on the Tao... because of these postings.) .

Well said comments from all..... As for good and evil... being human is a dualism, the Human part... the body that is in the world and the Being, that is part of the bigger vision (Great Spirit).

It is always better to nourish the "good" wolf rather than the "bad" within your heart .

[yinyangnature]

I also like Dr Dyer's book "Change your thoughts, Change your life -- Living the Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching", although I don't agree with all his interpretations.

I love this "It is always better to nourish the "good" wolf rather than the "bad" within your heart."

[walkingbear56]

Yes thats the book! It is just one interpretation, and as you have said... it is up to us to find the "truth' as words can always be misread, or misconstrued.

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes

on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2 wolves.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,

self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,

superiority, and ego.

[amazenboy]

"Would you make the whole world a temple?" means we must not MAKE IT a temple, but it doesn't mean that the whole world can't become a temple (if all men awake spiritually).

Kindly.

J.

[yinyangnature]

How could we see the whole world as a temple unless we had something other than a temple to serve as a comparison? It would be like fish not knowing they were swimming in water because they never leave the water.

[amazenboy]

The fish is one with the water, yet no conscious of it. It is the same with man, one with the world, yet no conscious of it, until he awakens. Then the world changes through this new consciousness and become a temple for conscious consciousness.

[yinyangnature]

Yes and if we only had the mind of a fish this would be fine. We could allow ourselves to be swept along and trust the current. Naturally this is the ultimate goal of enlightenmemt.

Most suffering is caused by things we see as negative, so initially the unity of opposites may be a shock. Especially for an ego that craves for only the positive. But in the words of the Tibetian Buddhists "Beings are released from suffering by the teachings of the truth; the final reality."

[Augalv]

@amazenboy Deep, and enlightening.

[amazenboy]

The purpose of the Way is then to see and live beyond all these dualities, and then to discover that in the absolute, I can see beauty as beauty only because I AM beauty. I can know good as good only because I AM good.

Then it is no more necessary to suffer in the world from evil, negativeness, sadness, failures... all can flow in harmony and constant progress, the contrary of a long boring existence.

[yinyangnature]

Well said my friend. Of course the unity of all opposites is the total unity that is the Tao. The Tao is symbolised as the circle made by the interlocking opposites, the yin and the yang. This also explains why the Tao can't be described. Being the unity of all things, it has no opposites to serve as a contrast.

[wolfinside]

Sometimes a Tiger is serene, at other times a Tiger is angry, still other times a Tiger can be frightened or hungry, or even amorous, but at all times he is still a tiger.