TAOISM: Understand the True Power of "Nothing"

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Explore the concept of emptiness and its profound significance in our lives, as illustrated through pottery, a hermit's lifestyle, and ancient Chinese philosophy. This video delves into how embracing emptiness enhances our understanding of existence and our connection to the universe. Learn to appreciate the vital role of space in daily life and the creative force of nothingness. Join the journey to uncover the joys and truths hidden in the simplicity of emptiness, enhancing your perspective on life and the universe.
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[@lionesss06]

My Family: you are doing nothing! Me: Wrong, I'm nurturing my spirit

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:D

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[@dustsky]

Master Gu is the embodiment of the master everyone can love: wise, stoic, cheerful, and good sense of humor.

[@NapoleonCalland]

Interesting that you indirectly referenced Stoicism. Imagine a conversation between Epictetus and Master Gu, or George and Marcus Aurelius? ;)

[@satnamo]

And little more wudang congfu+Taiji would be awesome.

[@jasonreviews]

if your qi is balanced your happy. It's as simple as that.

[@fzkxl9931]

Maybe not... If your goal is to become a professional potter.

[@saiko_1]

This is one of the best KZbin channels that ever existed. I wish more people watch your videos, because I sincerely think they are important.

[@George-Thompson]

Really glad you enjoyed!

[@Islaras]

So happy to discover it today!

[@eloradanan1837]

Emptiness=empty canvas. What you choose to paint on the canvas of your life, is all up to you.

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

Wow. That is so simple, beautiful and powerful. Now I feel inspired to clear the canvas of my life, and then paint something pure and natural.

[@enzobaroni7456]

Such a pity that we don't study this deeply in school... I live in Brazil and this whole Corona crisis made me think and suffer, I'm finding relief on the oriental cultures and philosophies. Looking forward to live some experience like that. Keep up with the good videos! Peace!

[@leslyvargas1940]

Exacttttlyyy me, it took my own mental anguish and suffering to find relief

[@Lumiverse.]

This video is SO GOOD. I think my favorite you've ever done.

[@freakiniilse]

I agree! So well put to words and images. Great job!

[@George-Thompson]

Glad you think so! I feel like I'm improving with each video 🙏🙏

[@djjazzydean]

Agree. A video to watch many times over

[@SimplyStuart94]

@@George-Thompson my only critic is around the 10 minute mark where the tree in the foreground is blurry, I found it really distracting

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[@GavinSaintClair]

Hi George, my Buddhist name is Daishi and I’ve practised Zen meditation and mindfulness including Chan Buddhism and the Tao.. this video was very helpful in an unprecedented time for us. My wife works as a Covid ICU nurse and I work as a carer. I’ve experienced people’s lack of mindfulness, the dangers of this and the anxiety that can come in a time like this one. I want to thank you for your effort and the direct experience through a well put together mini documentary. Keep up the good work as you’re making a difference, that’s my experience from watching your video. Best wishes 🙏 ⭐️

[@djjazzydean]

The cave hermit is magnificent being

[@kalebjohnson9183]

I love the idea that most religions are trying to say the same thing just in different ways.

[@peterpaulparker]

Great points. Nasseim Harriman has started to make some amazing discoveires about the dark matter and energy, which is what they call it in main stream science. He puts it like this. It is a field that is constantly spinning and everything is 99.999999 % space that appears to be solid matter because of the spin. If you think of the field as a coffee cup and that is the field that we cannot see. When you put the cream into the coffee after stiring it, you begin to see a spinning pattern from the cream. This pattern follows the fibernacci sequence and looks rather like a galaxy and the way that this forms through spinning. He is comparing the micro and the macro levels of our existence. The maths goes beyond me, but he is claiming that he is getting very close to comprehending the universe through the maths. Amazing. I love the Tao philosophy and the way that it talks about space. And at the end of the day, does it matter what happens after we die. We are here to live the best life possible and use our brains properly so that we can experience life to its fullest, while treating everything else we exist with, with respect. Conquering the mind is a key to this and using it as a very powerful too, rather than a lousy master, will lead you to a better life. Thanks for sharing. Great video. :)

[@richwilliams1863]

Who puts cream in their coffee? Disgusting. While you are on your way to killing your mind, take a moment to kill your comprehension. I think you would find it helpful.

[@peterpaulparker]

@@richwilliams1863 Thank you for the love and compassion you show. It is vey becoming. :)

[@matdear8120]

happy to see how wiseness is growing in you since you decided to leave home and follow your intuition :) thank you for sharing this with us

[@George-Thompson]

You are so welcome!

[@gregmasseyify]

I've had these thoughts myself. To get a bit esoteric Everything ultimately comes from nothing and as we come from nothing and are a part of nothing and no part of nothing can be bigger and another so it seems logical that we are all equal to and are the great infinite creator, nothing.

[@ThomSinger]

I seek to be aware of all that space. I look between the trees and buildings. It is hard to see the space in a world that is about the “stuff”. But my effort to make age 50 to 75 the best years of my life has lead me to appreciate the gaps. There is power in the empty space. There is something in nothing. #50to75

[@satnamo]

This is because that is This is not because that is not. This and that: I am in you And you are in me; We are one. I am a spark of the infinite that is functioning through this body+mind complex.

[@amithpcr7]

Thou art that!

[@qihangli7485]

Very wonderful video!! Though we do say "Yang Sheng 生" in Chinese, meaning nurturing the physical state, nurturing the spirit "Yang Shen 神" is more about our mental state.

[@timharrington4470]

Emptiness is the great equalizer. It is what we came from and it is where we are going to.

[@livinglifelazy]

This whole series is blowing my mind. I never knew what Daoism was until I stumbled across it in a random video, and it SPEAKS to me. Thanks so much for making this series!

[@ruoshui8542]

Immensely inspiring, superb quality. I love it that you are taking things to a new level by incorporating silence, a black screen, using the potential of the medium that way. Raising the bar and setting an example. I take my hat off to you, my Sanfeng brother! 🎩 🙏🏻 ☯️

[@George-Thompson]

Very glad you enjoyed Sanfeng brother!! 💖

[@mattcarlson8262]

Good job George, quite helpful. Have a day filled with emptiness. Matt

[@jkooser0701]

Really grateful for your videos. I'm in the US where sanity has seemed in short supply these last four years. The wisdom you share is recieved gratefully.

[@George-Thompson]

You are very welcome Jeff!

[@jackchiang1470]

Emptiness is the potentiality where all possibilities exist.

[@elfyhanley]

Tell me why I started crying a lil during this... it made me feel things 🥺 I am constantly in awe of our Universe and your wonderful video has reminded me of that 💚

[@everydogandhisman4294]

The hermit on the mountain is where we are all trying to get to :-)

[@Mr-.Facts.]

''There really is something, to nothing'' Well said

[@diywithsanya2806]

This is one of those videos which has last an everlasting impact on me. It gave me so much of clarity and peace within. ❤️

[@MissBlackMetal]

Taoism spoke to me decades ago when I learned about it, probably because it reminded me of my mother, who seems to live the Way but never mentioned it by name. I suppose it was serendipitously fated that I would discover Taoism one day. Though the language and poetry spoke to me, I never actually tried incorporating it into my life. It wasn't until I came across your videos with Master Gu recently that I "rediscovered" the Tao for myself, and now I'm ready to live the Way. Thank you, George, for your beautiful, thoughtful videos full of wisdom. I love the breathtaking scenery shots paired with the profound teachings and musings, plus your peppering-in of "real-life examples" of living the Tao, such as the "emptiness" cave hermit! Your videos are a joy to watch, and so far I've added nearly all the ones I've seen to my Taoism playlist! 😅

[@gregmasseyify]

Great video. No amount of words could ever teach the wisdom in the old hermits eyes.

[@elsagrace3893]

Are you saying that so that people like you?

[@gregmasseyify]

@@elsagrace3893 no. Are you saying that so people wont? 🤔

[@adamedison6831]

Breathtaking scenery! Also a very good and grounded (rather than abstract) look at a single Daoist principle. Thank you for creating this and sharing with us!

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You’re a Beautiful Human Being’ Thank you for Making This Channel

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😁

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Beautiful work my friend.

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Pleasure to come across this video, thank you !

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Master Gu is awesome...never met him but I love him

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Everything U say about unity 😊💕❤️✨🙏💯☯️

[@edwintepuendikum3527]

Thanks so much, for sharing 🙏🏿🙌🏿

[@usagi1641]

Same in the drawers, our computer, people that we have daily contact and finally in our heads. Great lesson. Vbr.

[@SpicyMcHaggis]

More and more I would love to see the tenthousand things in the Wudang mountains... Thanks for this awesome video too, George!

[@rejy92]

Music is the dance of silence.

[@vlatkodr7102]

Keep up developing and sharing this deep, beautiful thought and philosophy. It heals the world little by little

[@tubears711]

George, I certainly appreciate your beautiful perspective on life. thank you.

[@M1sheyla]

Thank you George for your amazing videos full of wisdom and knowledge. Can't stop watching them. Good luck! 🙏🏼😇

[@ying-yangwingchunclub7230]

Great, Great Asia and China. Great Buddhism, Daoism.

[@katriinagrant9510]

Loving the video, thanking you for another eye and space opening adventure☀️🕊

[@deevievanvoorthuizen3462]

Lots of times we hear on the news that for example a native bird species is not around anymore. It might have gone extinct. But most of the times this happened because the wole ecosystem the bird species was a part from died out. It can start with plants on the bottom of a lake that dissapear. Those plants gave oxigen to algies, those algies were food for fished and the birds fed on those fishes. When the bird itself dies it's body is processed by micro-organisms on the bottom of the lake and they make the bottom of the lake fertile for plants to grow there to produce oxigen for the algies again. We are not apart from the world we live in. In our culture we feel that way and this way of thinking has disastrous consequences. If we will keep on living with this way of mind, we might very well be that birdspecies in time... I love your channel George! It opened my eyes to taoist philosophy and changed my way of thinking dramatically. Please, keep those video's coming! :)

[@catherinedowney8085]

Love your videos! You make me envious! Thank you!

[@cardosoman]

this video touched me in a special way, thanks george

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Luv your channel! Subed!

[@ErrolGetner]

You have a terrific presence. I enjoyed this very much. Yin and Yang has a much more expanded meaning for me now. Thanks

[@danielread5854]

I like the way you managed to bring Han Solo into a discourse about Taoism. I think it's fair to say this has most likely never been done before in history.

[@LEP7cv]

We don't appreciate or give enough value to nothing, it's not seen well and it's misunderstood. Nice reminder

[@WestCoastKop]

This is really thoughtful and well done George, I got a lot out of it

[@tesan6805]

You've made it beautifully clear, Amazing job!

[@thelouisjohnson]

Check out Douglas Harding's 'The Headless Way' an amazing introduction to emptiness that sits into western thought really nicely. Great to watch George, an inspiration as always!

[@JujuWils]

I really enjoyed this one. Thank you.

[@bryankrouse1653]

The addition of these links is very helpful, thank you.

[@susydyson1750]

marvellous seeing and feeling space as described by tao with these glorious images

[@ATAXIA424]

beautiful, thank you

[@chefstefanoleone]

Beautiful wisdom George . Travel gently

[@geoffreynolds5834]

Emptiness is full ☯️

[@utsubarikaho]

Thank you George!

[@davidr-d9348]

In a few sentences you changed my entire perspective. When you spoke of the space outside of our skin being as important to living as the space within it, that just made so much sense to me. Nothingness really does connect us to every single thing. Even when my 'logical' brain tries to analyse it, and say what about the elements that make up that space, the nitrogen, oxygen and carbon that make up the atmosphere? I can only conclude that at its most micro-level, between the smallest sub-atomic particles, there is nothingness, and without that nothingness, those sub-atomic particles, and hence elements wouldn't function how they are supposed to. The insights your sharing with us are invaluable, so truly thank you

[@henkknaap8781]

What a gentle guide ! Thank you 🙏

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Love your videos!

[@lisar.4335]

Soooo grateful for this new video---thank you!

[@MartinJutras]

Another AMAZING video Georges. You put so much love and effort into the videos, thank you so much.

[@david_1214]

Great job explaining my favorite passage of the Dao De Jing! Thank you.

[@SahasraraIm]

Thank you!

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This really is so amazing. Please more of these! And thank you so very much for being here and making these.

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Thank you 🙏🏽

[@poetics231]

Thanks for this George! Gorgeous presentation of such a helpful idea.

[@mrjepguy]

Thank you George, thank you.

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Thank you, really enjoyed this video.

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Excellent George. Thank you!

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That was Great!

[@soul5788]

Another refreshing lesson. Thank you 🍃

[@lifelikejosie]

Beautifully made video. Loved it! Thanks for sharing the knowledge 🙏🏻

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Thank YOU.

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This is a very thought provoking video, George. Well done, I must say! Your videography skills have grown so much over the time you have been there. Looking forward to your next offering.

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So important today.

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Yes yes yes, i love this video

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It was awesome! Thank you !

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thank you 🤠

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Thank you for a truly great and insightful video. We need more people like you in the world.

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Beautiful 🙏🏼

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Sensei Jesse! Somehow I'm not surprised to find you here.

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Valkommen!

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Very well explained!

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This is great. Thank you for sharing.

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I love your channel and your energy ❤

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One of the best video I have ever seen! Thank you!

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This is beautiful and will done ! Thanks!

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That was a really nicely put together, thought provoking little film. Cheers, keep making them!

[@ronanderson7843]

Thank you, George. Please continue bringing this beautiful way of looking at things into my life. I deeply appreciate you.

[@Storm_.]

George, in my opinion this is some of your finest work. The thoughts and ideas you express so effortlessly, as though you are truly one with them. You have helped me in this moment to regain my perspective, and fill my mind with much joy. Thank you Steve

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Great Video!

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Beautiful! THANK YOU!

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Well done!!

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This came to me at the best time possible