China and the revival of Taoism | VPRO Documentary
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- What is Taoism and why did it have a revival in China in the last 30 years? Is Taoism a religion how we know it and how are people in China living Taoism? And speaking of Taoism, what do people mean with the term Tao? Is Taoism and Tao a philosophy or how do we have to understand it as outsiders?
In the fourth episode, Ruben Terlou travels to the mountains and learns more about Taoism.
In the mountain area where the Tao originated are still monks who are looking for the truth and enlightenment. There is a part of China that is hard to understand for our Photographer. When people in China speak of immortality, harmony and the ultimate effortlessness. Some Chinese go into the mountains alone. Others train in kung fu temples for years or sit under a rock. If you study the Tao, your spirit will live forever, they say. But what do they found under a rock and what made them study the Tao?
Ruben Terlou travels to the area where the main Chinese religions originated, including Taoism. There he is trying to find out the value of Tao for young people and meets an old hermit who has been living in a cave for decades. Mao´s Cultural Revolution wiped nearly out all religion, that was 50 or 60 years ago. But over the last 30 years, Taoism has seen a remarkable revival. A fact, that can be seen on the mountain where Master Lao, a giant gold statue of a bearded man, has been placed. Laotze or Master Lao wrote the main book about the Tao, the book “the Tao Te Ching”.
Photographer Terlou tries to understand what Taoism is by doing it. In the Wudang mountains, where the cradle of Taoist martial arts lies, he visits a modern kung fu temple. Surprisingly the center is mainly focused on Western students. The kung fu master demonstrates an ancient Taoist kung fu style that students have to learn it by seeing it once.
Original title: het rechte pad (4/7)
Maaik Krijgsman
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One of best documentary series on China.
Thanks a lot Doghouse 73 Pictures!
Ruben, you're great, your documentary is really a nice discovery.👍
Laozi work is highly esoteric and spiritual one, if one wants to read something a bit easier to understand (although the text does have deeper interpretations), I recommend to read Zhuang Zhou first.
The human body is nothing more than a way of being. When a person dies, he will become everything and be everywhere!
Dit is onze beste doku maker/ journalist die Nederland heeft!Daar kan je nou eens heeeeeel trots op zijn!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
The hermit is actually correct. Far from crazy
This is by far the best docu series about China. Change my minds :D
this was AWESOME
Een mooie episode in een boeiende serie.
Dankjewel windmill1965! ❤️
Great touch on the Way of the Dao! BUT IT'S not something with an easy conclusion... the Daoist way is the same but the paths going there are many.
Yes. Wushu and qigong (outer practice, outer work) are lower Dao, Neidan (inner practice, inner work) is high Dao. But also everything is Dao - calligraphy, as one master told to excel in calligraphy one has to have highly spiritual heart. Just being master in some work is Dao, too. But Neidan is all above, decades of following the master.
To be accepted as apprentice to Neidan master is a major gift. I read how one pupil crawled to the possible master's place of living in the whole year in hope he would be accepted. To non-Chinese people there's very little chance.
The imagery is beautiful, but I don't understand who the audience is intended to be - people who understand both languages used? At least subtitles would be helpful?!
Ich bin so erstaunt über den Reichtum der Kultur in China. Es fühlte sich Geheimnis an. Sehr geschätzt Ruben für den Versuch, sich einzumischen. 😂
Noch ein deutscher hier.
Where's the Taoism in all this? Oh, I get it. All is Tao. 😨
Why no subtitles to an European language?
Hi Oppa Tima, did you put on the subtitles in CC (Closed Captions)?
3:36 he demonstrates just once but its on camera so we can watch as much as we want, makes sense....
afterwards he cant breath, just WTF