The Taoist Way of Letting Go
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- A Taoist approach to letting go.
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#taoism #lettinggo #wuwei
There is a beautiful Indian poem, composed by Saint Kabir,
"Dear mind, slowly does happen everything,
The gardner waters a hundred times
Yet they bloom in spring."
Love it. Thanks!
@Poulomi Hari "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)
Very calming.
I love this. I have had an organic garden for over 10 years now but I am planning to move and may not have a space I can do that in so I hope to join a community garden. 🌿🍀🌿
A successful harvest relies just as much on the gardener, as the passage of time.
Master Oogway: "Your mind is like this water my friend. When it is agitated it becomes difficult to see.....but if you allow it to settle, then the answer becomes clear."
The best behaviour is similar to that of water,
because water benefits all creatures and yet remains unselfish.
It occupies the lowest position by itself
and for that very reason is credible and unspoiled.
The best human behaviour is undemanding to the outside world
and desirelessly inside;
devoted in action and true in speech;
ordering in leading and powerful in action;
calm in doing.
And only when this behavior strives for nothing, is it perfect.
- Tao Te Ching, 8
you don' t know me like that, fukd to you, my mind is not full of water. more to it then muddying the waters. I don't know anything, all I do know is the world isn't a spinning ball. certain
Star Goddess watch Kung Fu panda. It’s truly inspirational.
Love Kunfu Panda 🐼🥺♥️
"There are no accidents"
Balance and moderation in all things. Prepare the best you can, work as hard as you can, and then let go... the outcomes are, in the end, out of our hands. Only the preparation is within our control.
Just letting go things,means that we let things go and the space we create is too much to see the progress of a situation!!it doesn't mean that we are losing something,on the contrary letting go things,we continue our evolution with freedom of staying stuck on mind!!
I do not mean to seem insulting or demeaning in any way. I enjoyed listening to your voice. Concise with your information and the precision in your timing with the delivery. Not once have you over explained. Thus, your video makes for a relaxing listening experience. Which alleviates the need to listen too hard to understand the content. I’m chillin’ like a villain with relaxed facial muscles. Where are you from?
Everything must go!
Is your book going to be available in audio?? 🙏
The highest wisdom lies in letting go because the source of human suffering is clinging onto ephemeral things.
Yeah but you can't do anything about it when you have a heart.
@@MPeaches1958 also u wont have anything of real value, right? :)
I hope to hell Britanny from third grade who turned me down steps on a lego and her flounce gets caught up in a lawnmower.
Too bad western religion has completely diverted from that mentality. Instead we got divine Providence as if God chooses sides
@@god5535 Bless you. Spoken like God of the O.T. Vengeful and conceited. And likely to take umbrage with a slight from the third grade, and still wishing that Goddess ill will eons later.
"Do your work. Then step back. The only way to serenity." Lao Tsu
Lao tsu is right.
I love this. I used to stress over my skin and now I do the work to clear it up (wash 2x a day, eat healthy food, drink water, got hormones checked and balanced) and now it's time to step back and not worry about it.
Easier said than done but I'm writing this quote on my mirror!
@@Tamara-ju3lh is it a medical condition?
Keep moving forward. You got this.
@@Tamara-ju3lh Ah yes me too. It's not really improving but eh it will slowly
@@Tamara-ju3lh 😂
Let go of the things you are afraid to lose. Yoda
We only miss the things we cling to.
We broke up 2 months ago with my GF on smthin stupid... instead of clinging I helped her just as a friend fully prepared to let her go... she found herself again, and we are back together, and stronger than ever.
Might be cheesy but sometimes I thought, Qui Gon would be proud... and 'suck it Anakin, this is how you handle a relationship and Jedi philosophy'
János Brutyó why have I been thinking of things like this in terms of Star Wars philosophy recently 😂😂
@@reed574 Pop culture osmosis?
I mean Taoism is a pretty strong inspiration for the Jedi philosophy. And for an everyday westerner highly the number one introduction point to it. Couple that with the release of the Mandalorian and Rise of Skywalker in this time frame and many people's thoughts are prone to associate things with Star Wars.
'Musubi'... all the things, thoughts connect and separate like strings. Umm, yeah, watched Kimi No Na Wa (Your Name...) yesterday. Such profound wisdom in that Japanese animated movie too, the framing of my thoughts is very in tune with it now XD
Ilyas El ouatouati Love It!!!
“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose” - Yoda
NoirVibes ouss
Hoppin on the like train huh?
Pacha 157 what do you mean huh ?
@@migueladrianvalevelazquez8703 same post different format and less likes
Pacha 157 I don’t understand lol
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything, that we’re free to do anything...” “The things you own, end up owning you...” - (I can’t talk about it😉)
Nobody talks about (__________)
Another similar concept I learned was "do-something syndrome." We have an innate fear of just being.
I concur in that sentiment, Sir. Ive seen it, many cannot 'just be'. I feel like philosophy brings one much closer to the tranquility and peace of just 'being'.
Hasnain Abbas Dilawar And yet we are human beings....not human doings 🌝
@NotATeenStereotype Im quite positive we all realize that many actions day by day are necessary but the point is many are not.
@NotATeenStereotype meh, its hard to convey philosophical ideas without coming off as literal and 'sooo deep' i suppose. LOL
@NotATeenStereotype Best of both worlds aye, yeah thats usually a safe win. I really like the 'say the perfect thing at the most right time' as possible. You can see the words pierce through them and provide an angelic uplift of spirits sometimes but things like quotes and philosophy don't register at all with some people. Honestly its a shame that philosophy is not taught early and throughout school curriculum. As far as i know its not taught at all here in the West except as a selected class late in school. Its literally a spirit fortifying weapon for life and it stimulates deep thought and introspective evaluation. But hey thats not good if you want a nation of automatons right.
I'm a Taoist and it's been one of the best decisions I've made. This philosophical system is very unique and it's given me a very affinity and love for Chinese philosophy and historical figures
Got any recommended resources?
@@brandonk8948
I would recommend starting with the Tao Te Ching as it is the bedrock of Taoism and was written by Laozi. I would also recommend finding a book specifically on the practice of Taoist meditation methods, there are a lot on Amazon and they're all great 👍
@@punishedvenomsnake716 That sounds great! Thank you for the suggestions! Do you have any key terms to search for accountability training groups?
@@brandonk8948
I actually have a specific book for that too! It's called: "Systemic Governance and Accountability" in which Taoism is discussed in a few sections with regards to accountability.
Also no problem, glad to help :)
Boss!
"If you cling too tightly, you're gonna lose control." ~ 38 Special
Well played, well played...👍🙏
happy new year and damn im starting it right being this earlyyy
@MsBizzyGurl Lol! That was good!
Happy new year!
2020 is going to be a great year!!! Happy new year!
Attachment to the materialism is Detachment from spiritualism.
~Wong.
I think you quoted that Wong....🤪🤣
*Thoughts can become a literal deadweight:* The backpack of life that you carry, will lighten up the more of them (useless) you throw away
funny thing is I am subscribed to 4 or 5 channels you also subscribed to and you always have something witty to say ... keep it up bro and a happy productive prosperous year .
@@mohamedelamineboulahia1692 You too, brother. Keep crushing it.
Hey look! It's that guy who always says a wise quote on every video to get traffic for his TH-cam channel.
Thank u this helped me at this time in my life
american history x vibes here, hate is baggage, life is too short to carry such heavy weight... :,)
Yes. Some of the best advice I have received was from a retired minister:
“Don’t just do something, stand there!”
This has been proved to work. Three teenagers standing on a dock. A man is drowning several feet away. The man stops moving and one of the teenagers says "I think he's dead" He did die at about that time.
How does just standing there help with anything? I'm failing to understand.
Man, If you don’t consider “stand” to be said figuratively, this almost goes over your head....feels like one of those “when you see it” memes
There’s too much confusion about my comment so I’ll just stand here and let you guys figure it out.
My favorite minister often said "do the best you can with what you're got" I do this daily. It helps greatly.
"By letting go we create space for the universe to do Its thing. " Thank you
Letting the mold in my bathroom go was the wrong move.
Lol
😂
Been then there done that, plus it really pisses off the landlord!
Airsoft Farm 🤣
hahahaha
Letting is the scariest yet most powerful thing you can do
The need to be in control, has just left me miserable, time to let go. Thanks for this one, came just when I needed it🙏
Thanks, I've been a control freak due to lack of trust. I need to take a time off.
@Howardsend88 damn right
@@udaybhaskar-ff3mz damn damn right
Howardsend88
Porn is evil
@Howardsend88 porn isn't nor is it healthy.
Do not let go of the person who loves you but let go of the mistake they had make.
Depends on the mistake...
Might be good to let both go if the mistake warrants it.
The mistake is letting go. Let be and never let go. Most if not all failures are due to people letting go. Insistence and persistence are the keys to success, from friendship to marriage to growing old. Till death I don't part.
Never go with the flow. Create one.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
@@jwu1950 That view sounds like the exact opposite to what this video is about.
@@parasamesar1925 This video was made by people who don't understand Chinese. Take the COVID-19 pandemic as an example, did the world let go and laid flat? Yes. Did China let go? No. That is why China has less than 5,000 deaths and is still persistently insisting on zero tolerance. USA has over a million deaths, with one quarter of the population of China. See the difference and why?
Lao Tzu said the highest virtue is like water. Have you ever seen water let go and go with the flow of others? No. Water is always focused, insistent, persistent, and create its own flow. That's the virtue of water. Letting be is not letting go. Letting be is allowing all concerns to survive without having to surrender, fail, or be defeated. Have you seen water not letting be? Never.
With marriages, if one would let be and not let go, the marriage and the love will survive. Even when the marriage must be broken up, the love would still survive, and there should not be any remorse, guilt, or pain for as long as there is love.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
@@jwu1950 I don't exactly understand the difference between letting be and letting go. They sound quite similar and yet quite different at the same time. Btw out of context question, are you from China?
Taoism really speaks to me, and I recommend reading "The Tao of Pooh", amazing book.
i LOVE that book! 💙
My first exposure to the Tao. So grateful.
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
I was looking for this comment
Let go, walk away, and do nothing to disturb the flow . 💙💛💔 🧙♂️
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
The depressed need to rediscover love
Depression is merely anger turned inwards.
@@keiranleonard1301
the depressed need TO BE more than anything else.
@@nt6351 yah, when you suppress your anger too much, even anger gets angry at you. Your own self despises you for being so unfair to yourself.
Depression is resistance.
It's lack of acceptance....
Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, -Exodus 14:13
Thought that was from Lighthouse xD
Thanks for this verse. My first exposure to the concept of surrender was Christianity. I find value in those verses still.
been working on letting go w/ my ex for months now .. painful to think of her so I hope this practice helps
This is a key concept, especially in relationships.
If someone wants out, oblige them.
Your life, development, and goals continue with them or without them.
I let go of someone I loved. C'est la vie!
Gerhard Symons well done
Gerhard Symons if it only were that easy. I have to let go of someone I love and who also loves me, but the distance and family situation doesn’t allow us to be together. Now I know that if it were meant to be, the universe would have made it possible and since it doesn’t, it’s not supposed to be. But even though I know that, it’s so hard to accept and let go of her, since I still have feelings for her. Detaching myself is the hardest thing there is.
@@sT3fFO27 Each situation is unique.
I wish I could say that the passage of time helps. Four years on, and not a single day has passed without me thinking of her. Maybe it will be like that until I die. Who knows?
Still, you get on with life.
Let her go and never take her back.
@@sT3fFO27 I know buddy, I have to do the same thing now, and we didn't get the longest time together, fortunately, so I should be able to pull this off and get away with minimal casualties, but it's still brutal and that's in a week and it's already messing with me. It's going to hurt, alot. For a period of time, and then I'll be OK, with the grace of God.
This has been a lifelong lesson.
Now? I am happier, gaining fulfillment, and much less exhausted.
What a privilege it is to listen to you on the very first day of this year. Wish you a very happy new year mate, keep inspiring us with your content. Have a blessed and healthy life.
Thank you, Ujjwal! Best wishes to you!
One of the keys to a happier life might be letting go of social media, and ... TH-cam. 😉
StingerBλte Absolutely! I just went through this morning and clicked Not Interested for multiple Eek Awful The World is Negative and Scary videos that had started popping up in my feed for reasons known only to TH-cam. Ugh!!
I took a two week break from Facebook - three years ago. Life was so much more peaceful without it that I just never went back. Aahhhh, letting go!! 🥰
The "doing something instead of waiting" part is pretty much the reason why most of our lovelives are not perfect. Time and time again we try to fix things on the spot instead of just letting the situation resolve itself.
I'll have to watch this again a few times to soak up all the wisdom you so eloquently laid out for us. Favorite video so far :)
Thank you Trentyn! Best wishes to you!
Bro you are my other life or something, that's the 3rd video that came out right when I needed it.
Same happened to me today
Happy New Year, Einzelgänger and everyone here! 😇💞🌎
Best wishes to you!
Thank you!! For you also, the best wishes!! Happy 2020!!!
I listen to Let it Be by The Beatles. It actually helps.
You have to give up to go up
Sometimes losing is gaining. Sometimes going backwards can set you forward again.
It will never "work" if that's your motivation.
I really wish the Chinese government would remember Wu Wei instead of taking Hongkong's independence by force.
Him: "tap into this force"
Me: I knew star wars was real
😅😅💪🏾
Happy new year to the guide! Thank you for your videos, they Indeed made me a better person.
You’ve experienced Christmas dinner with my father in law, too, I see.
hahaha, that made me giggle
This is like the easiest but the most difficult to do. ❤️
Happy New Year, man. Also, thanks for this video, it gave me the right motivation to let go and relax.
This is so good! I’m teaching myself that it’s ok to let go! It’s hard and fear tries to hold me back but I’m on a mission to become consciously aware!
Super - focus on the present moment instead of the past and you will suceed!
Nullius in verba this is so true :)
"Don't try to control everything and just let go"
I read once that lack of doing or say anything can appear lazy or down to weakness...but instead this is down to the individual s strength of character rather than the weakness
This is great information, I find that when dealing with toxic people, not interacting is the best approach. Toxic people generally are sick inside and lash out at others for their problems. I find that ignoring them then causes them to target someone else, or complain to higher ups, and they unravel their own fabric if you maintain your posture and dont partake in their games
Absolutely no turning back as my experience, lying for the whole relation, a long forgiving in relationship fiinally i decided to end last year the abuse one let them learn ro realized just respect what desreved to them after all
This talk put seemingly disparate concepts together and in right perspective for me! ... Personal Fear ... Not Trusting People ... Feeling The Need To Control ... Seeing the interconnectedness of these has brought Me into focus for MySelf... Thank You Einzelganger! Every video I’ve watched of yours has been deeply impacting! 🙏😊💗
I listened twice in a row. I should every day. I struggled with this my whole life.
"Learning consist in daily accumulating - The practice of Tao consist in daily DIMINISHING"
Tao Teh Ching
I watched this video with my full cognitive awareness and it's not that long either.
Yet, I know that I must re-watch it multiple times because this video contains so much profound & elemental knowledge.
That even if I experience deep resonance while watching, to grasp the extend of information contained, was not possible to me.
Thank you, because that experience is something I sincere uphold.
Be well & Fortune favor you!
Wow, thank you flower tower :). I'm just the messenger... you might want to read the sources (Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi) if you like this.
One of the best videos I've seen on this subject, wow=words of wisdom
Thank you, A M!
This is very similar to the wisdom contained in the Serenity Prayer
Trust in life and nature, not in people. People will inherently let you down, but life will always take it's course.
The more I hear and listen about this philosophy, the more intriguing it becomes and simultaneously mysterious to grasp, it's beautiful how something can be so simple but so subtle at the same time !
Internet is an amazing place to learn solutions of your problems
Let go and let God !
Just read "the toastiest way of letting go". Well that's kinda easy... xD
I was watching another video when this popped up and immediately clicked. Love everything you put out man! Thank you for all the good you do :)
Thank you, Berry!
I felt this tranquility gazing into the lake water in the mighty snowy forest.
Happy new year and thank you for your search of wisdom and revelation to us using your videos. Helps me a lot brother...keep it going this 2020 🔥
It's ironic... We live in a society that thrives on preconditioning the modern-day human being into being accustomed to negativity, violence, belligerence and darkness. Then when somebody comes along the exact opposite, preaching nothing but peace, love and harmony and trying to make examples for others to follow, they are immediately deemed as "crazy" by the same people who are running around screaming how everyone should be better people to one another.
@Dephraction but the fact that there are people like us, just as much every part of the human race as they are, who are able to see past the smoke and mirrors. There has to be a way to make others see
At the moment I'm having a teaching from life about letting go. All the time. Everywhere. Thank you for this profound collection of thoughts about it. It helps.
The video was really great...!
The message that you wanted to convey was so clear, coherent and organized.
It's the kind which can be and in fact should be watched every morning for maximum impact.
Happy New Year bro!! 🍾🎉 This channel has been helping me alot in 2019
Letting go…. 🥱Time to allow Universe to do its things 😎….,,, it’s his show time, and it’s my turn to sit, rest, and watch his show time.💃🕺
Don't be ridiculous !!!
The universe cannot exist without me. The universe happened because it is inevitable. I make the inevitable inevitable.
Let be but never let go. Never go with the flow. Create a flow.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
"wu wei" translates directly to "not do," so I think it's better to refer to it as "wei wu wei," or "do not do" -- because this gets more to the heart of Lao Tzu's mysterious yet profound langauge. The full phrase appears three times in the original Tao Te Ching, and Ursula Le Guin speaks to its importance in a footnote of her English rendition of the book: "Over and over Lao Tzu says wei wu wei: Do not do. Doing not-doing. To act without acting. Action by inaction. You do nothing yet it gets done... It’s not a statement susceptible to logical interpretation, or even to a syntactical translation into English; but it’s a concept that transforms thought radically, that changes minds. The whole book is both an explanation and a demonstration of it."
Coming back to this channel every time I get back to my lowest point is so comforting 😞 danke Einzel:(❤️
"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." - Neil McCauley
Very well explained and the only way to live.
Very interesting for someone like me who is very deep into studying and feeling forms of power. Control is part of the power.
There is power in self control not control over others. That's weakness
Abram Little I’m not talking about controlling others at all. That’s not possible in the first place.
@@diurnalreign it is if they give u power
*Elsa singing in the backround*
2:29...
One who seeks the Tao.. Non Action..
4:09...
Letting it erode naturally...
The Master does not seek fulfillment..
5:28....
The best leaders are the ones that are not overly controlling..
6:25....
The dance dances itself!
Normally I find wisdom in these short videos. But I don’t agree. I am a practical person and my family come to me when they’re in need. If I just “let it go” where would we be. My daughter’s car wouldn’t start and she’d be unable to get to work. My wife wouldn’t be able to dry the laundry because of the tree casting it’s shade in our small garden. There’s times when we should let it go, agreed.
☯️LET IT GO!!! LET IT GO!!! CANT HOLD IT ANYMORE!!! LET IT GO!!! LET IT GO!!! ☯️
Hey dood, I wanna help u to translate ur videos to Spanish, is it possible? Ur videos are really good.
End quote. ;)
Me
Right on! Love your channel and the positivity you put out into the universe. Gonna make 2020 the year I'm completely woke , with your help I feel like failure isn't even on my radar. Thanks brother, have a great and prosperous new year!!
Thank you so much, Don. Best wishes to you!!
As you said, I have found that trust is very important.
If you can’t live without something then you don’t deserve it.
~ TONY STARK
"very mundane things: like cooking a meal or FLYING AN AIRPLACE" :D
Angel this is Wonderful 🙏😎☯️.. yes .. The Flow . thank U .. We’re so Blessed .. loveUr wisdom passion .. don’t know where I heard it .. inaction is part of action
Your videos are helping me a lot on daily basis although i practice these techniques for a long time unknowhngly. Your vids male relax during these days of family problems. Thanks a lot from bottem of my heart.
Thank you for these videos. Mind us asking what your own philosophy is?
6:06 - 6:56 "THE FLOW STATE"
how can we apply this to the state of the world? i have a hard time because theres so much suffering in the world and its so awful and i wish i could make it all stop. from most of our chocolate from west africa that uses child slaves to produce, things like that makes me go nuts about the state of the world and i feel like i need to control it
George Carlin remarked upon how life got better when he stopped caring about how things would turn out. I myself take comfort in the fact that "Nature bats last", i.e., when most of the species that we know and love (including the human race) have gone extinct, evolution will create a whole new bunch of delightful species to populate the planet. I just regret that I won't be around to delight in them.
@The Flaneur It will take hundreds of thousands of years for Nature to "fix" the harm that humans have done. In the meantime, the species that we know and love will die. I am talking extinction. The human race may survive, at terrible cost; however, in the next hundred years, millions (billions?) will die as refugees migrating across borders in search of food, or will die as soldiers fighting over over scarce resources (which is already happening between farmer and pastoralist tribes in Africa). Your complacent attitude reflects empty-headed ignorance and consequent moral vacuity. My reference to "Nature bats last" reflects my effort to buffer my utter despair.
I found your videos at pivotal moment in my life. I learned Tao during my first year in collage, and nearly 30 years later the philosophy is brining me peace in the most turbulent time in my life.
For this:☮️, you have to see this:☯️.
Which means accepting others despite how you perceive them to be, even the most evil person can have redeeming qualities. I love the yin-yang symbol, it has so many layers of depth to it.
One of my favorite youtube places lately. I learn something new and I am also being reminded about some wise things, that for some reason I forget to practice every day. Thank you and keep up with the good work in 2020.
Thank you, Boris. We all experience that, including myself. It's life, you know. Best wishes!
Sometimes its not the fear that the world will fall apart without you that makes you a control freak, but fear that your world will forget you without you there that holds our unwilling lust for permanence.
Thanks for the video. It reminds me of Alan Watts. He explained this concept very eloquently. Basically this practice of letting go in Taoism is meant to teach the individual to learn the value of spontaneity. By allowing things to flow naturally. The universe gives birth to precious moments of unfiltered truth. Raw spontaneous natural manifestation.
Existence is over hyped
Release your earthly tether, enter the void, and become wind.
Thanks for the video! This is the best gift for my heart and mind.
Thank you, Helen! Best wishes to you!
The Taoist in the thumbnail looks like Elsa from Frozen.