The Tao of Kung Fu #20 - "Be nothing and become everything."

[asykora]

My work, no ideas. My mind, no ideas. & even these are not 'mine'

[jamesarongray]

this show is profound.... so is this toaism i should be looking into to learn more about these ideas?

[GuillermoSmyser]

To offer yet another value of emptiness. Phrasing in music is given value when emptiness is found between notes. If a guitar solo, for instance, is note after note with no pause or stop then it lacks phrasing and is ever more difficult to digest by the ear.

[someoneupload]

what episode of Kung Fu is this

[yinyangnature]

@someoneupload "The Hoots".

[nicoyanicoya]

damn, this show was the shits, i hope they dont try to remake like they been doing all kinds of things...thumbs DOWN if you dont want them to remake

[CAPITANheathenheart]

BE NOTHING!

[nalcow]

This is the Tao Te Ting..

[yinyangnature]

@nalcow Indeed. However it's usually written "Tao Te Ching" - The Way to Virtue Book.

[TheSubwaysurfer]

Actor Keye Luke was a master at delivery. Who else could have delivered this passage with such quiet authority. Beautifully said.

[confederateyankeegir]

Be something: YOU!

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[morningbirdfeeder]

Be the space at the center. Be nothing, and you will have everything to give to others.

[thelifeuwant]

thanks for upload!

[atfatw]

much useable good wisdom

[olariugabriela]

I LOVE your interpretation, yingyangnature. Thank you so much for posting this.

[yinyangnature]

You're very welcome my friend! Thank you very much.

[DavelovesRealMusic]

This is one of the more intreiguing clips from the show. I accept what your interpretation is on the right on all its levels. I also see a different angle.

Let Your SELF be FREE of all

that controls and encumber it

and you may reach a Higher

Place Within.

[yinyangnature]

Indeed. Well said my friend.

[thrillseeker70]

Thought provoking stuff indeed, just a shame more of humanity don't understand the value of it, can you imagine how much better the world would be.

[drbrontosaurus]

would you make the whole world a temple?

:p

[thrillseeker70]

making the "whole world a temple has NOTHING to do with the teaching being discussed.

[drbrontosaurus]

watch more episodes of Kung Fu

[lockmagic]

Very touching.. Thanks for sharing this

[Misspreety1974]

Lovely word, they touched my heart!

5***** Thanks for the share

[TheUndeadMouse]

I dont understand what the master is telling Caine can someone help me?

[yinyangnature]

Have you tried reading my commentary under the "more info" section to the right of the Youtube window --------->

[TheUndeadMouse]

oh thanks lol

[sabrinamari369]

This is a famous excerpt from the Tao te Ching.

[naflodi]

sometimes to be nothing, requires a lot of hard work.

[WickdPerfekT]

definitely......

[karljjr]

when become nothing and let go, you allow others to receive. to be without being. Simple yet complex.

[RedCrescentDemon]

I love reading and seeing these kinds of quotes and saying. Every time I see one it just blows my mind. Just thinking about how the emptiness within things which give it value just totally sends a wave from my head to my entire body. I just totally trips me out. I love it.

[yinyangnature]

That's great to hear. Peace on the Path my friend.

[easysueburs]

Me too redcrescentdemon. They don't say much but it means so much. Crazy

[RedCrescentDemon]

I love the feeling. It brings me a little closer to being wiser and happier. I'd love to be a supremely wise and knowledgeable guy when I grow up. I questions everything on a regular basis and the many thoughts that run through my head sometimes drive me nuts. Even when I try to go to sleep, that's the time when I hear the thoughts so well they feel like they're really materializing in my head. The sounds are so real.

[stuthebru]

taoism,they say is being a silent mind, blank ect,the piont people miss about nothing-ness and stoping thoughts meditating is,that if we silence the mind we enter that nothing-ness whitch really is droping our ego whitch is our seperateness,and when we do as we are not being our indivual being we exsperience the whole,therfore we are the universe we are god we are the sceanary the picture iself not the being in it,,,then we are ,,,ps realigons sold you out as they dont help you to find this

[87cyberman]

Wonderfully stated, stuthebru!

[inbredagogo]

These Tao flashback clips are great. Kung Fu was a very unique show for its time, it still is today. In my opinion these flashbacks are what made the show complete, without them it would have been an entirely different program. The people that produced this show were nothing short of geniuses, and the two actors that portrayed the old masters Philip Ahn and Key Luke were magnificent.

[BlackProteus]

This is written where?

[yinyangnature]

This is from the ancient Chinese philosophy called Taoism. Taoism is an attempt to explain the ways of the reality we commonly call Nature. Checkout my website on Taoism for more information. A link to this can be found on my Youtube channel.

[BlackProteus]

I just read your web site, and it is very interesting. You've inspired me to look into this a bit more. This is the unusual nature of the web: you hear a bit of trivia -- Carradine is dead -- do an idle web search, and next thing you know, you're mind is blown with surprisingly sublime new knowledge. Thanks, man. You're doing something real and good in the world...

[yinyangnature]

Thank you very much for your very kind words my friend. You are very welcome!

[bigkendallas]

I think the point of this lesson is to not try to build one's self into something (don't try to "be" something) ,

...but position and allow yourself into a natural place in nature (be nothing).

This way, you can act wisely and utilize what nature provides for you naturally.

[dailyrev]

Perhaps this translation (my own) will help: Clay is formed and baked: Thus a cup is made. Yet it is the invisible interior From which we drink. Framed walls and brick are joined To make a house. Yet it is the open space within That makes it livable, That gives doors and windows Their unique functions. Therefore, make being your element, But non-being, your life.

[yinyangnature]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[flair777ytube]

be nothing

that's an oxymoron

[yinyangnature]

Indeed. How can one not exist and "be" something not existing? I see your point now.

Maybe a better way of saying this is 'embrace the emptiness which is everything' i.e. Tao.

Incidentally, I think the greatest oxymoron is "life after death". Shouldn't it be 'life after life' since it is just more of the same? How absurd.

[blessingsinfinity]

Now David Carridine has life after life his spirit lives on in all of us I listened to the children talk about recent movies and told them of how when I grew up I watched Kung fu and how we must grow up with positive going into our thoughts and minds that was the night of David Caridines start of life after life I will never for get him

[naflodi]

Socrates once said the sign of true genioius is to do nothing. Makes me wonder if Socrates and the Tao have common roots.

[yinyangnature]

I think all wisdom has common roots. I see the Tao in everything - Nature, art, music, movies, animals. Anywhere there is peace, wisdom, harmony, simplicity and one has that very special 'aha' moment.

[GDR352]

To be is to do. - Plato

To do is to be. - Socrates

Doo bee doo bee doo. - Sinatra

[naflodi]

Yabadabadoo - Fred Flinstone

[MusicMan20061210]

And all that makes me wonder what the Dodo Bird said...

[fishintheflow]

I think emptiness also refers to the wu-wei mind; that sees without "doing" :o) so in being empty, the mind then sees all more clearly....because there are no masks being placed over what *is* :o)

[warrior350es]

Why do I find more useful words in the Tao than in the bible

[Isnaard]

No wonder. Tao, I suppose, was never a political tool or maneuver, and that's basically all that christianity is. It actually doesn't even have a mythology of it's own, except for the made-up story of Jesus. :D

[warrior350es]

I agree with you to some extent, I don't believe that Christianity was ever meant to be a " political tool or maneuver ", it is possibly used as such because of men's flawed interpretation of it. Taoism and Christianity have essentially the same message, as far as Christianity being made up, who's to really know for certain, it is not even determinable that Laozi was an actual person. However, both of these beliefs work well in their own way, or perhaps even together.

[jaklumen]

It has not been my experience that Christianity should be political for me, nor have I found Jesus to be "made up".

But this has been the beautiful thing about the Tao, for me-- that I am able to experience as I will and am able, even if others do not arrive to similar conclusions.

[walkingbear56]

This series is such a beautiful simple reflection on the Tao,

thank you for the postings and the information. Finally feels like home.

[marktrumble9]

thank you

[abecube]

Buenisimo, sigue posteando

[minnesotachris]

Great stuff, thank you for continuing to post these, most especially for your commentary!

[amazenboy]

Very powerful, as always.

I have nothing to add to it or to your commentary.