HAPPY NEW YEAR Yingyangnature I love your channels and ideas for videos. Also that was a great idea posting the kung fu series lessons and taoist explanations that you put into words very well. Looking forward to your future vids. Peace
To add on top of all the other comments, I've always very much agreed with Huang Po, who was always objecting against conceptualizing or defining the Absolute. The Absolute is unlimited, a fact of which I think is very important. Whatever you say about the Absolute, no matter what word, is limiting it. Every word is a definition, and the Absolute cannot be defined. Even the word "Absolute" is a limit. About it, you cannot say it is "not this" or "it is this", since in every case you exclude.
@FearThisChannel “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?” Chuang Tzu - Ancient Taoist Sage
@FearThisChannel insightful. good attempt to explain that in a form acceptable to most. i always struggle with that as the irony of what i'm saying grows with each word i spew out of my mouth
What is the Buddhist solution to people living next door, playing LOUD rap music, at 3 in the morning, who have said they will only stop it if you FORCE them to stop it? I am not in this position, but I want to know how Buddhism applies to a situation like this.
@NIETZSCHEAN14 Buddha taught the solution is always somewhere in the middle. Applied to this situation the solution may be found by not telling your neighbour to reframe from playing loud music entirely. But rather from playing loud music after 11PM. This is the application of the "Middle Way" to create a win-win situation, rather than a win-lose or lose-lose, as is so often the case.
Buddhists have no idea about the "atman" in Hinduism. The atman is identical with Brahman, which is the All, and has nothing at all to do with the ego.
@KevinSolway Yet it is an illusion to believe the spark and the fire are separate isolated events? Just as it is to believe the ego is not something the whole Universe is doing, at the place we call here and now.
@TaoFAQ Yes indeed, it is an illusion to think that the spark and the fire are separated things. I believe this wisdom is at the core of Hinduism, but as with all religions, including Buddhism, the teaching becomes corrupted in very short time.
@KevinSolway I think this is a common problem whenever metaphysical concepts are conveyed with languages devised to describe the physical world. Spiritual experiences are always beyond intellectual understanding and can only be understood intuitively. Throughout history people have always disagreed on the semantics of any communicated wisdom and this has always resulted in fragmentation rather than the intended union.
@KevinSolway Indeed. It's little wonder the Ancient Taoist sages never trusted words. Chuang Tzu said words were like a fishing net. Very useful, but once a fish is caught the net could be forgotten. In the same way, once a meaning is understood the words are no longer required. (Alias TaoFAQ)
@TaoFAQ remember that the word illusion has a specific meaning in buddhist thinking, it means composed or decomposeble... it is an illusion because it is composed of many mind processes, there is no thing you can put the finger on and say this is ego... it is a tought that gives a sense to a complex decomposeble and at some extent changeble process...
The Baghavad Gita teaches selflessness. It speaks of being the observer, not the doer. It speaks of being like the tortoise : to withdraw from the world of the senses as the tortoise withdraw its head into its shell. The messages are consistently selflessness in the teachings of the Gita, of Lao-Tsu, of the Buddha and of Jesus.
Not to confuse the ego-self and the self-realized Self.
spirit never forget... the mind is new always
jhon7416 5 days ago
old spirit in young body is Reincarnation,,
jhon7416 5 days ago
bad editing much
laffizzle 1 month ago
HAPPY NEW YEAR Yingyangnature I love your channels and ideas for videos. Also that was a great idea posting the kung fu series lessons and taoist explanations that you put into words very well. Looking forward to your future vids. Peace
jjooeegg1 1 month ago
@jjooeegg1 Thank you! All the best to you and the ones you love.
yinyangnature 1 month ago
To add on top of all the other comments, I've always very much agreed with Huang Po, who was always objecting against conceptualizing or defining the Absolute. The Absolute is unlimited, a fact of which I think is very important. Whatever you say about the Absolute, no matter what word, is limiting it. Every word is a definition, and the Absolute cannot be defined. Even the word "Absolute" is a limit. About it, you cannot say it is "not this" or "it is this", since in every case you exclude.
FearThisChannel 2 months ago 2
@FearThisChannel “The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?” Chuang Tzu - Ancient Taoist Sage
yinyangnature 2 months ago 6
@FearThisChannel insightful. good attempt to explain that in a form acceptable to most. i always struggle with that as the irony of what i'm saying grows with each word i spew out of my mouth
dbufi 2 months ago
Lol "My god you sound just like a Hindu!" :P
Ravendbleader 3 months ago
What is the Buddhist solution to people living next door, playing LOUD rap music, at 3 in the morning, who have said they will only stop it if you FORCE them to stop it? I am not in this position, but I want to know how Buddhism applies to a situation like this.
NIETZSCHEAN14 5 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14 Buddha taught the solution is always somewhere in the middle. Applied to this situation the solution may be found by not telling your neighbour to reframe from playing loud music entirely. But rather from playing loud music after 11PM. This is the application of the "Middle Way" to create a win-win situation, rather than a win-lose or lose-lose, as is so often the case.
TaoFAQ 5 months ago
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@TaoFAQ. I do not think you understood my question. Please read it again and give me your answer. Thank you.
NIETZSCHEAN14 5 months ago
@NIETZSCHEAN14
Smash their stereo with a buddha statue.
xknowledgeisfreex 3 months ago
@xknowledgeisfreex. Exactly (lol).
NIETZSCHEAN14 3 months ago
Buddhists have no idea about the "atman" in Hinduism. The atman is identical with Brahman, which is the All, and has nothing at all to do with the ego.
KevinSolway 5 months ago
@KevinSolway Isn't ego simply an illusion that prevents one from seeing the non-duel reality of Brahman?
TaoFAQ 5 months ago
@TaoFAQ "Isn't ego simply an illusion"
Yes, that's how I understand it. In Hinduism the self is regarded to be like a spark within a fire. And a spark within a fire isn't an illusion.
KevinSolway 5 months ago
@KevinSolway Yet it is an illusion to believe the spark and the fire are separate isolated events? Just as it is to believe the ego is not something the whole Universe is doing, at the place we call here and now.
TaoFAQ 5 months ago
@TaoFAQ Yes indeed, it is an illusion to think that the spark and the fire are separated things. I believe this wisdom is at the core of Hinduism, but as with all religions, including Buddhism, the teaching becomes corrupted in very short time.
KevinSolway 5 months ago
@KevinSolway I think this is a common problem whenever metaphysical concepts are conveyed with languages devised to describe the physical world. Spiritual experiences are always beyond intellectual understanding and can only be understood intuitively. Throughout history people have always disagreed on the semantics of any communicated wisdom and this has always resulted in fragmentation rather than the intended union.
TaoFAQ 5 months ago
@TaoFAQ "disagreed on the semantics"
It's not just the semantics they disagree on. They also disagree with the meaning people understand the words to have.
KevinSolway 5 months ago
@KevinSolway Indeed. It's little wonder the Ancient Taoist sages never trusted words. Chuang Tzu said words were like a fishing net. Very useful, but once a fish is caught the net could be forgotten. In the same way, once a meaning is understood the words are no longer required. (Alias TaoFAQ)
yinyangnature 5 months ago
@yinyangnature I love how you argue by agreeing lol
TheBanyanEmperor 3 months ago
@KevinSolway LOL at least I think you're joking..my kind of humor
bradley1107 4 days ago
@TaoFAQ remember that the word illusion has a specific meaning in buddhist thinking, it means composed or decomposeble... it is an illusion because it is composed of many mind processes, there is no thing you can put the finger on and say this is ego... it is a tought that gives a sense to a complex decomposeble and at some extent changeble process...
juliolins 5 months ago
@juliolins Thank you for reminding me of something I had forgotten and for explaining it so well. (Alias TaoFAQ)
yinyangnature 5 months ago
Thanks Bobba . You have an informative and inspiring channel , You are very much appreciated.
jjooeegg1 5 months ago
The Baghavad Gita teaches selflessness. It speaks of being the observer, not the doer. It speaks of being like the tortoise : to withdraw from the world of the senses as the tortoise withdraw its head into its shell. The messages are consistently selflessness in the teachings of the Gita, of Lao-Tsu, of the Buddha and of Jesus.
Not to confuse the ego-self and the self-realized Self.
Tao33316 5 months ago
@Tao33316 Thank you for your wonderful insight my friend.
yinyangnature 5 months ago
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jamesarongray 5 months ago
no belief will do in a world which refuses to adhere to our limited points of view.
claudelebel55 5 months ago