Donna Quesada. Taoism/Daoism. (WU WEI. Energy. Chi. Yin Yang) 4/9

Donna Quesada from Santa Monica College - Lecture on the Chinese philosophy of Taoism. Feb. 5, 2009. Part 4-of-9.--
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[robotiqz1]

Yang is positive? Yin is negative? Yang is therefore, GOOOOOOD, so, let me think a minute. Aaaaah? Yin must be ... somewhat baaaaaaaaaaaad. Something must be missing from my understanding because this explanation would imply, the FEMININE half of the Universe is baaaaad which-oh-so-very-clearly-is-no­t-the-case. But, of course, it balances out because everyone is both male and female just like the Freudians say and all their weird friends.

[profquesada]

@robotiqz1

Nope! This very point was clarified from the get-go, starting at :20 seconds into the video!

[profquesada]

Thanks, Speedy~

And BTW, not so young, sonny - just had to turn on the light so I can see the keyboard;)

[profquesada]

It is gentle action (the video goes into greater detail.)

[chodaboy566]

work with effort.... doing nothing yet nothing is left undone...

[ADAMOLOGY]

nice video BUT..4:24, the teacher makes a statement that, " The people were just trying to stay alive, it was there government". That statement means that individuals don't have free will, and that's not true. A government may do items but the citizens don't have to except it and can protest. Due to the lack of free will being expressed in the 1930's &1940s in europe we had World War 2. My Point is, If you disagree with the government or a person you don't have to .. go along with their plan

[ADAMOLOGY]

nice video BUT..4:24, the teacher makes a statement that, " The people were just trying to stay alive, it was there government". That statement means that individuals don't have free will, and that's not true. A government may do items but the citizens don't have to except it and can protest. Due to the lack of free will being expressed in the 1930's &1940s in europe we had World War 2. My Point is, If you disagree with the government or a person you don't have to .. go along with their plan

[kallo1234]

@jcahweng but being graceful does imply "not doing anything that would violate the laws of nature" as you are not going against nature but following its cycle, and thus you are graceful

[proadmin1]

@robotiqz1 I'm laughing to myself because there was a great little "in" joke in the old cartoon "Avatar" - where a character shown to be more than a little bit of a crazy genius notes,

"Well , there's "positive jing, negative jing ...... and neutral jing" at which point the listener is confused

"I always thought there was just two kinds....."

The genius guy points out "well technically there's 84 kinds of jing but there but let's focus on neutral jing"

[seaofclay]

VERY GOOD!!!

[angellicvoices]

Very insightful!!! I love this lecture too. Thanks from Australia

[Jahrass7]

this is DOPE...pure raw uncut DOPE as in GOOD!