Introduction to Taoism: History, Origins, and the Tao te Ching

In this introduction to Taoism, the Tao de Ching, Lao-tzu, and the nature of the Tao is discussed. This is part of professor Javy Galindo's online course in Comparative Religion.
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[@sebatron198x2]

Great overview! I have gained understanding of some elements of what Taoism is and this video really took those elements in an-easy-to-understand summary. I appreciate the contribution! Much to gain from this philosophy, too.

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I stumbled upon your videos while trying to learn more for my own personal growth. I've always been interested in studying philosophy and religion but don't have the means to do take classes just for enjoyment. Thank you for sharing these publicly, and giving me the opportunity to learn in a structured way!

[@kalapitrivedi6966]

Understand Tao is the purest and most scientific way to know religion

[@UtopiaParadiseValley]

As you reading towards chapter 81 of the Dao De Jing (Achieving of the Way) from chapter 60 onwards you will enter a trance mode state of mind feeling afloat and upper body back forth in a circular clockwise direction,feeling great and refreshing. It is good for health and cure your minor illness

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You explained this so well. Thank you so much

[@treymiller1902]

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THANK YOU for such an amazing description

[@samgamgee7384]

You can't know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life. Just realize where you come from: this is the essence of wisdom.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching.

[@luizclaudio6724]

Well done! Great Video.

[@daodejing81]

I enjoyed your perspective of Dào, the natural way of all things. Very nice!

[@davidallsopp4030]

Excellent explanation! Interesting and insightful throughoout

[@ch355_]

you have a calm manner of presenting the material that i enjoy. thank you for making these videos available. i have a question and a comment. firstly, the question: in tao te ching, the words themselves, is there some chinese grammar that allows one to know that the tao is the central component? this is in reference to what is commonly said, “the tao and it’s power” or “the tao and it’s virtue”. how do i know that it is not a book about the tao and the te? obviously it is called tao-ism and not te-ism, but blindly following along with what people commonly assume doesn’t help me much. i’ve read that in some discoveries the order of the two sections were reversed, and the chapters dealing with te were presented first, so i wonder about this a lot. secondly, the comment: talking about “harnessing” the tao definitely makes it more palatable and interesting as a subject of thought for westerners, but i wonder if that is something the author of these poems would intend or agree with. one can harness an ox or a horse, one can try to harness one’s own tongue (and sometimes be successful), but how does one harness an abstraction that one cannot name nor truly understand? maybe this is a super-fine nit-pick, and if so i apologize. but, i’m missing something in that figure of speech, and will happily receive any other thoughts you have on it. many thanks and best wishes

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Thanks for sharing

[@xenoblad]

I guess my biggest frustration with all things being in flow is that there’s no way to identify if something could not be in flow. Usually when a word over extends to covering everything, it loses meaning.

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thank you for your clear exegesis

[@mariancounsellor]

This was really interesting.

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I AM BLESS IN ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE

[@thomasphoon4867]

Thanks for presentation! Gain much about Taoism from this video.

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Amazing!

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[@bodhi9464]

Thank you 🙏🏼 most informative

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Thank you!

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Confucius's is a hell of a word

[@swordmonkey6635]

That's why I like his traditional name: Kun Fu Tzu.

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I AM BLESS IN ALL PARTS OF LIFE

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I AM BLESS IN ALL AREAS OF LIFE

[@paulinesilverio18]

very helpful

[@edsibley8265]

Perhaps -- at some point -- will you say something about the precursor to The Tao... I have read it to be The Pa Kua (a 6000 yr old, cult belief attributable to a mythical figure by name, Fu Hsi) that teaches the non-oppositional dualistic concept espoused in the Tao te Ching/Jing in the language of Yin (earth) and Yang (sky). Thank you...

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[@Jooji777]

May I ask you a question does Daoism predates Buddhism? because on internet there is different answers in each sites and I am kinda confused thank you in advance for reading this.

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[@tidepod13]

I had a stroke reading that

[@kalapitrivedi6966]

Many thinkers suggested that the book Tao te ching was written by Wu hsin.. He was asked to stop entering the golden gate and before entering he was asked to write his wisdom on reality

[@tantangpenn5496]

Ask these MANY thinkers to show their proofs.

[@michaelpayne8691]

How many trees have you planted and how many children have seen you plant them?

[@francinalivingi4286]

How about the cause of all things according to the chinese

[@philmcdonald6088]

lau zi not a man but a "school" of shamanic teachers/thinkers?

[@derekbaugh6360]

The “chi” in Tai Chi is not the same as the “chi” in say Chi Gong.

[@vorpal22]

Sounds like religious Taoism by 4:20.

[@jenna2431]

I think the part about harnessing the Dao is not quite correct. That statement is pretty bold, audacious, for the mere human to speak of harnessing the Dao. More accurately, it's flowing in harmony with the Dao, recognizing it and seeking it out, understanding how its ways differ from everything we might think we know, which has been constructed without deference to the Dao.

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❤

[@lilibethmedinaworldgreatem7034]

I am familiar of Tao by this verse those who know does not talk those who talk does not know. So many verses that's telling on myself I am yin yang i am wise I am entangle I am majestic and so many thing here with me

[@taejun9017]

19:53 , FTW!

[@philmcdonald6088]

lau zi not a real person but a "school" of shamanic teachers/thinkers?

[@benquinney2]

Taking in some yin

[@sherwing9054]

Tao te ching is just a written form of Lao Tzu's words. One cannot fully understand it until they become enlighted. And when they become enlightened, they won't need the book. Too many people think that the book are words of wisdom when it's just Lao Tzu's way of translating his knowledge to common folks. What rests beyond Tao Te Ching is the true Tao, but has anyone seen it? Masters that have achieved it are claimed to be in seclusion and have isolated themselves from the real world. So we will never know, perhaps when we become enlighted will we know true Tao.

[@KnockManJo]

Enlightenment isn't something you become, it's something you realize once you let go of every opinion. It's realizing that you are already everything you need to be and know everything you need to know, and you can effortlessly flow with all that is.

[@He.knows.nothing]

I do not believe there is such a thing as an "enlightened" individual. There are simply individuals who have made the maintenance of ego death a priority in their lives, but that is a paradox for the desire to maintain ego death is itself a product of the ego. Taoism is not an existentialism. It is not a series of truths that can be deduced from observing our realities, rather it is an Absurdism. It is the relinquishment of satiating your desire for truth in favor of submitting yourself to the uncertainties of your experience. Those uncertainties are the flow. That which obstructs the flow is the positing of certainty, truth, and dogma, for they are all unyielding and unchanging. Taoists have done this with the words of Lao Tzu as have the Buddhists with the words of Siddhartha and Christians with the words of Christ. By defining the Tao, by focussing on enlightenment as if it were a goal for you to achieve, you are manifesting it as a myriad thing and in your quest to achieve oneness with the flow, you have become the rock that obstructs it.

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For you it may be, for others maybe not. Enjoy.

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