The Spiritual TRUTH in the World's Greatest Philosophy

In this podcast, we will explain the essence of the nameless origin of the Tao. This is the twenty-fifth episode of the 81 Meditations of the Tao Te Ching, a series where we explore each chapter of the Tao Te Ching. We will dissect chapter twenty-five of the Tao Te Ching to give you ultimate clarity on the meaning of this chapter.
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[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

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[@johnc.6645]

it cracked me up Jason, when you said the politicians are practicing "interference" in our lives. Many people seem dedicated to the same concept of trying to interfere with the opinions of other people. As you both point out "social warriors". your interpretations are so good on Taoism. Good going Brother.

[@tobinharris8107]

This episode got me to pull out my copy of the 1984 Chogyam Trungpa book "Shambhala-The Sacred Path of the Warrior". It was my 1st exposure to Eastern thought. A portion from the chapter entitled "Discovering Magic" really struck me upon first read and has stayed with me ever since. It discusses resting in nowness and likens it to a primordial, cosmic mirror; unconditioned. While that book is about Tibetan Buddhism, the common threads are so strong between it, Taoism and Hinduism. I just love learning about all of these and thank you for being such good teachers and guides!

[@mortonvrose]

Lovely ❤ Shanti ❤ Shanti ❤ Shanti

[@Kumargaret]

Och Dear, this infinite becoming happens to us, humble observers as well. From big bang of our birth till we become transparent expression of wisdom and compassion. We get here, in one life, full spectrum of existence, as above so within. We can do nothing else than playing the game. Thank you for making it very sweet and exciting

[@andrewjewell3142]

Peace and love to you both ❤️

[@thomasrutledge5941]

Chapter 25 really galvanizes my attention. I'll listen to this one several times & do extra homework & meditation on it.

[@Amila108]

Much love, peace and grand appreciation for both of you. The world is blessed to have you. Thank you, thank you, thank you ♥️🕉️☮️☮️☮️♥️

[@ScottH.]

The grasp you both have of these difficult subjects is truly impressive. Thank you.

[@lovelovelovehappyhappyhappy]

Thank you 😊

[@helenaqigong6751]

I love your talks. Feeling gratitude for your kindness, Gayoung and Jason. Shanti, shanti, shanti ;)

[@themystic6481]

Thank you for this video 🙏🏻🧡

[@colemarsh13]

Thank you 💖 😊

[@jasonc8910]

Tha k you.

[@2622Valerie1]

Thank you!

[@elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen]

The dao started with the big bang..... Yeah you got it! 😊

[@ghannaalshoofy8706]

Ok .. ! First time know about Tao and the similerity and the differentiality of confucius. And how many teachings about seeking oneself and have to not seek nothing because we're whole and all what we need is to connect to the trueself not seeking any of it, it's already here and waiting to be disclosed. Thank you guys I loved this chanel, already subsecribed, liked and commented. Love

[@davidgodshall2535]

Great video! Not so sure that the sage identifies w anything - rather is simply in complete harmony with what is. Terrific observation on how socialization presses us to differentiate ourselves which is not in accord with the nature of the totality. IMHO artificial differentiation is the major cause of much unhappiness as it takes us further from home (union) with all there is.

[@Amila108]

So true. Thank you

[@jodiparry111]

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing these teachings ❤️

[@lisaruzicka8345]

As always thank you.

[@victoriaburgess700]

Your channel is awesome! I always learn something. Recently (past year) I have adopted Taoist philosophy! I’m soo happy I did…and still and forever learning…about many things!

[@giridharreddy5125]

Thanks for the video, it was very helpful😊

[@MrJewlz83]

I truly enjoy your content .. Keep moving forward with your experiences and expanding on your realizations 😇🙏🏼

[@KeithNoland2211]

🙏🏾 Gratitude 🙏🏾 Another wonderful video. I really appreciate this & your channel. I'm not always able to get online, but I definitely want to support. Please keep doing what you're doing!

[@i_viz_ion346]

This session was so good! Thank you guys so much for sharing!!! One Love, my Brother & Sister!!!! 🙏💕✨

[@chrisharden7941]

Thanks!

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Thank you for the support, Chris. I appreciate it.

[@yarlagaddasatyanarayana4072]

Thank you

[@jodiparry111]

Love the Tool reference.. The question arises inside that asks.. is the world not as it is to be? Is anything ever wrong? Isn't all as it should be? More of us are coming back to these teachings organically.. like the way of nature.. cycles..

[@hashijouzu]

When I first read the Tao Te Ching, Chapter 25 is where things started to click for me. It's also the one I re-read the most across multiple translations. "Favorite" is not the right word, but it certainly rings the loudest for me.

[@thomasrutledge5941]

Ziran is a notable 'concept' propounded in chapter 25. In the Tao Te Ching, "ziran" occurs in chapters: (17, 23, 25, 51, 64) Jason Gregory is quoted several times in this book excerpt about, ziran. It's good stuff. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHeWqoNvmdWlbas

[@SHINJUKAN_SPIRAL]

New sub, good channel. You should do a video on Jiddu Krishnamurti

[@JasonGregoryAuthor]

Nice to meet you, my friend. We have one podcast thus far on JK from a few years ago. Here it is kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGnbgWmZeLd6rNE

[@superuser8159]

The starting is very similar to the Nasadiya Sukta

[@yarlagaddasatyanarayana4072]

Please try to picturies or tabulate the cyclic Nature of creation and distruction of universe, uniqueness of Brahma,, Jeeva /individual Atma,their relationship for beginners of search of ParamaAtma etc

[@Simon-vt1zp]

More good stuff Jason 🙏 Off the top of your head, what would be Ekhart Tolle’s Pain-body concept be called in The Gita / Veda’s / or Patanjalis Yoga sutra ? Hope it’s ok to ask. Thanks Brother 🕉🙏

[@roselotusmystic]

🙏

[@fernandoorozco5968]

YES

[@frialsharefabdo7715]

💚💚🙏🙏 " As long as there is a _ You _ doing or not - doing , thinking or not - thinking , " meditating " or " not - meditating " , You are no closer yo home than the day you were born ." ~ Wei Wu Wei ~ " The root of light is Nothingness ; the Source of all movement is Stillness ; the Source of all sound is Silence ." ~ Tao Te Ching ~

[@seddik6522]

Hi Jason Gregory !!! Every time I watch one of your videos it is very professional and informative. I have a question, what do you think about watching porn? is it destructive to the mind? Thanks

[@questioneverything1776]

So how do we live in this world?

[@samuelcorp637]

If the Tao follows the laws of nature, in Taoism is the Tao also considered to create the laws of nature?

[@kaushikupadhyay2790]

Indian and Chinese knowledge are somewhat similar, isn't it?

[@namanjain39]

It is

[@fluentpiffle]

All methods of attempting to genuinely understand must eventually lead to success, as long as we can whittle each aspect down to that which is necessary. In fact, it may well be that it is a requirement of genuine understanding to approach the 'Allness' of existential questioning from as many necessary aspects as possible, all things existent necessarily converging in truth.. The emphasis should be on genuineness and necessity, not favouring one Human-invented method over another. When it comes to truth, the Human necessity is that we must 'be it to see it', for the very reason that we ARE 'it'.. The importance of the 'mystical' aspect Humanity carries within it, and so has access to, is not 'god' in its many guises, but the intrinsic aspect of infinitude.. 'God' has been our excuse for irresponsibility, leading to false 'authoritarianism', but the real 'enlightenment' occurs when we see how necessary infinitude is.. So 'god' has just been a vehicle, a carrier of genuine understanding, not the truth itself.. People generally have a very poor understanding of what the word 'infinite' actually means.. This is not any kind of 'fault', but just that we have evolved within the confines of what appears to be a finite environment, and we thus try to look at things in finite ways, also justifying those 'finite' thoughts. When I first approached the 'problem' I had the same difficulties, so it takes our minds a lot of effort to reach another perspective of understanding, but it IS achievable.. Firstly, there cannot be more than one 'instance' of infinitude, otherwise a secondary 'thing' would render them both 'finite'. So we are describing a 'oneness'.. Also, it can have no 'beginning' nor 'ending' as these would also necessitate a secondary 'thing' (or the utter nonsense of a 'nothing'!), so we are describing 'eternity' when we apply 'time' concepts. Then, we have to admit that it can only be the one thing that interconnects all other 'things', and we deduce this to be 'Space', necessarily.. So, in terms of 'numbers', infinitude can only ever be 'one'.. ('Non-dual') All references to 'size' or 'direction' do not apply to the nature of infinitude, and thus have no relevance to our understanding of the true nature of existence. 'Measurement' has limitations.. When we point to any position in Space, we effectively create a 'beginning' to any subsequent forms of measurement, which only has relevance to the entity desiring to understand said 'measurement'. Measuring things does not make them a main-feature of the nature of reality, only a desire of 'measurement' from a purely Human perspective. 'Math' is another finite aspect, and so has limited usage. It helps us to describe specific positions and calculate certain desirable measurements to ourselves, so that we may use finite reference points, but it breaks down at the level of describing a necessarily infinite reality. Thus, as it is with our 'senses', we need various different kinds of understanding, all working in tandem with each other to produce the 'bigger picture', and we have philosophy and psychology, arts and 'mysticism'/intuition, among others, evolved for this task. However, because we live in an 'expert' driven society, blinded by the illusion of 'separation', all the 'senses/methods' are at war with each other, jostling for control, when the only true understanding occurs if we emulate nature itself, and work from a foundation of wholeness.. Within infinitude everything appears to be at the 'centre' of that which it finds detectable ('observable').. So, the moment you create the perspective of a 'centre', you become that centre..Here we can find the real problem with using 'mathematics' as a tool for understanding infinite nature. We have to firstly posit the 'points' to be 'measured' in order for the measurement to take place.. And this is why we end up inventing 'things' that do not exist in reality from mathematical constructs that do not describe the truth about nature.. We then require a 'scientific' understanding that explains the necessity for Infinitude to be the 'default state of being'.. "Commendation from NASA for research work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the Earth's atmosphere and the Moon's surface for navigation of the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.. Dr. Milo Wolff has found the structure of the electron consisting of two spherical quantum waves, one moving radially outward and another moving radially inward. The center of the waves is the nominal location of the electron 'particle'. These waves extend infinitely, like charge force. All 'particle' waves mix and contribute to each other, thus all matter of the universe is interrelated by this intimate connection between the fundamental 'particles' and the universe. The natural laws are a direct consequence of this Wave Structure of Matter (WSM), thus WSM underlies all of science." spaceandmotion It takes our minds a lot of effort/energy to actually try to understand things in the real sense. We have to consider how much effort has already been used in trying to understand things which we know to be false! This 'conditioning' is necessary in order to communicate with whatever kind of 'culture' we are born into, and explains why the understanding of the nature of our reality has been difficult for us as a species, and been left to rare individuals such as 'mystics' and other forms of intuitive, in the past.. The question of infinitude does not rest on opinion, but with the genuine scientific method of deduction from necessity. We might well wonder why this is not something promoted most vigorously from within science itself, so that us 'laypersons' are able to understand things more clearly..? In fact, all people everywhere already have intuition of infinitude being the fundamental state of being, but it is masked beneath cultural traditions and erroneous assumptions. In an 'expanding' universe, what is it 'expanding' into, and is THAT infinite, or the next thing...ad infinitum. If you believe in 'god/s', it is their infinite aspect that gives them any credibility.. Even if you posit the completely insane idea of a 'nothingness', you still have to ask: Well, is THAT infinite? So you see, it is all really a question of how we interpret infinity, and if we are being genuinely 'scientific' about it we must use deduction from necessity as the de facto method.. On time.. 'Time' is really the motions of space, that we have conceptualised in finite ways in order to communicate ideas of relevant motion between ourselves. It does not exist as anything more than a human concept, but the motions of space DO exist, in the same way that Space exists, i.e. infinitely; This explains 'relativity'. When we apply the 'time' concept, we call this 'eternity'.. On Morality.. Morality can only come from the nature of existence, otherwise the human invented fantasy is inevitably dissolved in the hypocrisy it always was..

[@100earth4]

Hi Jason. I'm curious where can I find an legit physical version of the Doa De Jing?

[@pavel_shui]

Tao Te Ching Translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English translation, or Tao Te Ching: Annotated and Explained Translated by Derek Lin translation.

[@roselotusmystic]

TheBigBang? 😹

[@marketgardener8957]

Yet this too is never true nor false, who can say nor even is, even when it is? The dao that can dao is not true dao