What’s The Difference Between Taoism and Buddhism? | TDK #86

[@jinsontan4974]

Sorry to point this out, but, it is pretty rude that Jon Paul is smiling/laughing when someone respectable from their religion is sharing their religion. Doesn't sit right with me.

[@way231]

jon has always behave like that in past episodes.

[@thoongchinglee4905]

it's ok, like everything else there are certain bias in different people towards knowledges outside their realm or circle. As far as you can see, there are many cuts in this video, I am guessing the producer and editor see a lot of attitude problem with him. =)

[@yoyomaster9991]

knn then you all don't watch la, abit abit complain wtf. snowflakes ?

[@jinsontan4974]

@@way231 I know. I did see also. But just feel it was overly excessive in this episode. I don't mean this with hate but he ought to be more mindful. I mean he can still be him and say/do what he want but respectfully la.

[@calvinl5726]

@@jinsontan4974 too bad

[@susuman6110]

It's very fresh and interesting to hear from an educated and mature thinking religious representative that keeps up with modern society. They're open to criticism, explain myths, and transparent in answering society's doubts, be it negative or positive. Good job to both the podcasters and guests for explaining something that everyone is so curious about but had no avenue to find the true answer from. That being said, I hope the panels try to be more respectful and stop playing with the phone whilst on the podcast or interrupting halfway whilst the guest is explaining certain things. Good job and keep it up!

[@Splashhhh]

Episode on the Sikh community would be interesting

[@batuhijau85]

Love your religious content series! Please do invite exorcists from diff faiths! Would be interesting to learn! Well done TDK!

[@alui5362]

would have preferred to hear more about the philosophical part lah, since master ben said he was drawn to it for that reason. hopefully u guys have a second episode.

[@penguin0101]

Yeah the questions this time round is pretty kinda on the “fun” side but not really value adding imho. But guess they hve to do it for the crowd, idk.

[@yca4309]

I cant believe only 5 people said they liked these religious content HAHAHAH I thought a lot of people (esp Singaporeans) felt this way since it's quite rare that we get to hear from religious leaders across various religions in such a casual context ! it's educational and funny soo.... i'll say it explicitly here: PLS DO MORE???? LOVE THE CONTENTTTT

[@zhuotianwei]

Good episodes. Enjoy hearing about the ritualistic part of Taoism. How about exploring Taoism as a philosophy instead of as a religion? There are people who follow the 道德经 as a way of living. e.g. BG George Yeo who is Roman Catholic but is a practicing Taoist

[@moot8107]

I clicked this expecting content on Taoism as a philosophy, so thanks for this comment.

[@junhao702]

Since both Buddhism and Taoism are so similar in Sg, I suggest an episode where both Priest and Monk comes together and address situation. Like in a same situation, what would each religion do because we are always so confused 😂

[@DiZangLin]

Actually, Taoism and Buddhism are very different. It's the Chinese culture that meshes everything up.

[@pshenanigan4820]

Like a shaolin showdown 😆

[@jasxteo]

Yup agree it is very different between Buddhism and taoism. The fundamentals, the views, the rituals are all totally different

[@Jojo-oi3iz]

Buddhism and Taoism are absolutely different. Buddhism originate from India and Taoism from China. It is the Chinese people that rojak Taoism and Buddhism together. They have very different philosophy and principles.

[@jparryprodeal]

@@DiZangLin yes it is totally different. Buddhism is not a religion it is a way a life. Buddha teaches you the way of life, he have to walk that path yourself, no craving no suffering, don't clink on to worthy desires, Annica , everything comes and go , nothing is permanent. as you go deeper it is very interesting.It talk about the samsara cycle, cause and effect, if you can get out of it then you achieve nirvana.

[@thedamnhappygurl]

I've been going to the Lorong Koo Chye Sheng Hong Temple since young and I have so many fond memories of the temple, especially during CNY! I do agree to some extent that some of the local Taoism practices are largely influenced by superstition and mythical folklore, but I hope questions about the religion is out of curiousity and not ridicule... I truly think its a shame that Master Ben was not able to share more about the philosophical aspect of Taoism cos Taoism's principles on living in harmony with the nature and natural order could have been a really meaningful topic for the panel to discuss on.

[@alvinlim0812]

I love this series! Y’all should interview a fortune teller and see whether it coincides with Johnathan’s story

[@snowplowah]

this is actually so entertaining and i feel that u guys should get hundreds of thousand of views Bro so underrated

[@StampedePic]

These dialogues are fun and important to understand each other instead of assumption from what you normally get from the internet.

[@VivianHoGrey13]

Watching it again makes me realise how little I know about my own religion... this is really going way deeper than what my parents knew themselves... great one!

[@ch_t-wv3pk]

would be cool if you guys are able to invite a chinese medium!

[@derricklee8629]

I LOVE THESE RELIGIOUS CONTENTS! We seriously need more, hoping you guys would invite a protestant pastor soon!

[@briantan2963]

Have anyone noticed? Chinese culture with mythical folklore always like to use things of resemblance. Then glorify and signifies it. Turning over the 福 word 福“到”, means "blessings arrived". Mandarin orange 吉利 etc... Chinese new year, you see, it reminds you, feels good, everybody happy, very auspicious, ok lah... But some of these "resemblance" really quite over did it. I'm a Chinese and I find it quite nonsense sometimes. Then passed down the years, people forget the meaning or lost in translation, then everyone just do it blindly although it's no longer have much meaning in the modern era context.

[@vincentwong2792]

If not mistaken, Taoism is more to Chinese version of wizard and alchemist, they create symbols, rituals, and ingredients to heal something bad. Also, Taoism is more towards understanding on Qi or energy around us.

[@andyhoo5358]

Imo, JP is quite rude to keep grinning like a little boy when the Taoist master is talking.

[@xadeliciousxx]

Looks like Aiken in cosplay

[@adamng5338]

Agree with the other comments, that it would be nice to focus on the philosophical aspect of Tao Te Ching. Perhaps also its origins and how it came to be, would make an enlightening episode.

[@ntoken]

was the guy in green shirt consuming weed before the show?

[@limian3599]

Growing up in SG, our grand parents used to tell us 雷公 is angry when the thunders rips the sky. Upon searching, the statue of God of thunder has a beak, carries a hammer, has wings. Can you think of a god of thunder that carries a hammer? Instead of a beak, he has wings on his head gear. Essentially, they are half - bird. Interesting the interviewers kept asking about Nu Wah. Did you realize it sounds like the name of a person in the old testament? Similar to the western / middle Eastern version, there was rain and flood. Is Nu-wah actually Noah? It has fascinated me for the longest time.

[@PinkCherie89]

Great series! i love this series bout religions! please interview a few mediums in the future! that will be so interesting! (even though i grow up in a medium family) keep up the good work on all these interesting episodes!

[@wine712]

Quite interesting, i think in penang you can still see alot mentioned. When i was young i grew up in a temple so there was alot of interesting deities stories told. But when i moved to Singapore i find that most this is only known by older generation. Anyways interesting episode. Love it

[@brok3]

best channel to watch while eating!! just on time for dinner.

[@kynanchan04]

so true

[@jolqjm]

Thanks so much for this episode! Curious to know more about Thai Buddhism and how it differentiates from others as well

[@Utube1024]

Thai Buddhism is Theravada lineage same like Sri Lanka, doing alms collection practicing the original form from Gautama Buddha. Chinese Buddhism is under the Mahayana lineage. They don't do alms collection as the weather sometime do not permit. But their main goal are the same to reach Nirvana.

[@chopmoon]

@11:05, Bi Gan (比干）was the premier of Shang Dynasty in China during King Zhou（纣王）reign. He was eventually framed and murdered by Dazi (妲己）for speaking out against the atrocities under King Zhou. His wife, then pregnant, was forced to flee and hid in the woods where she gave birth to their son. After King Zhou was disposed by King Wu (周武王）, Bi Gan's son was bestowed the surname Lin which represents forest, thus starting the Lin/ Lim lineage.

[@anthonytmein]

My early answer: Taoism focuses on achieving liberation, in an almost biological sense. The human is built to be able to achieve enlightenment, but only if we choose to follow The Way. This involves the careful balance and repayment of karmas, and careful diligent cultivation through rigorous training and meditation. Buddhism believes that achieving enlightenment is but a mechanism for the liberation of all beings. If you choose to pursue self-liberation, in whatever you choose to do with your life, the aim is to help all beings to achieve liberation and freedom from rebirth. So. Taoism: biology/physics/science/spiritual mechanisms, simply existence itself, is the “How” and the “Why” is liberation. Buddhism, The “How” is achieving liberation, the “Why” is the liberation of all beings.

[@JayTee_GR96]

Hope TDK can Invite a medium next!

[@epiphadipity]

JP cannot stop laughing at the name sia LOLOL he giggling throughout that whole segment 🤣

[@cmannn]

i love how almost all of jon paul’s amazing jokes are flying under the radar

[@dereklim1985]

What fish are they talking about? Im very interested to read more about this fish.

[@underwater975]

snakehead. Locally we call it 生鱼. Some call it 乌鱼/黑鱼

[@akoj3262]

Religion is very personal and especially in Buddhism/ Taoist imo, its liked never a one life thing. Its just a pickup of where we normally need to brush up or work on. Actually its not the medium cleansing their bodies but the deities that came upon doing it already? Taoist rituals or praying is more for current life and things Helping devotees of their situations etc. Also, please remember to do good. Be good and kind to people. and do help and do charity if we can. Giving doesnt need to involve money too. Wu wei sounds so zen too. Just be mindful, awareness, look at the situation, look at your mood but you dont have to attach yr emotions to it. A lot of disputes arise because the sender and receiver misunderstandings, the weaving of the situation in the mind. then become unhappy with one another etc. We wei sounds liked Going with the flow For Buddhism, what i feel is that it also covers the afterlife and also knowing whom we really are and this core 'real in us' that everyone else also have, no different from Buddha - the Buddha seeds in everyone of us. Repentance is also a very important aspect in a lot of religions but not much focus on it. See how many times we will say sorry vs thank you. lol esp to loved ones. Sometimes some issues might be with karmic creditors. Life is so long. Who are we to say if we really didn't kill someone accidentally or purposely... or the guilt we trapped in us......

[@ravetech5199]

Hoping to see an interview with a Tang Ki Medium. :D

[@wyx5854]

finally clear my confusion between buddhish and taoism!! thanks a lot!

[@NathanNoon]

Looking forward to Hinduism, Jainism & Sikhism

[@naanyangdiaries]

who writes the book/almanac thus deciding which day/timing is good?

[@loversalex85]

invite a Chinese medium will be awesome

[@libraries144]

the more i watch this the more i think my fam is taoist but we call ourselves buddhist. we are definistely not as devine as a buddhist and we def pray to all those taoist gods

[@illuminatusdeus3051]

Buddhism is an Indian school of thought founded in around 6 century bce. Its root word out of sanskrit word 'buddhi' which means mind or intellect. It was a counter movement to ritualistic Hinduism. At heart Buddhism is anti ritualism and is, basically that's how it started, an atheistic movement. Buddhists started off questioning Hindu rituals and divinity... but ultimately became a religion (carvaka, jainism etc are thr other systems). Basically, Buddhism is an ancient Indian intellectual movement questioning life. Its probably founded by gautam siddharth based on learnings found on that subcontinent in those days, I would probably credit prebuddhist ideas of kapil as well, I have no doubt Buddha was influenced by kapil.

[@JSFrederic]

Would like to see interview with a tibetan buddhism monk as well!

[@metothecore]

Enjoy this series, maybe can also do one with a feng shui master! Keep up the good work on the content and videos!

[@aliciasougly3871]

Sorry for being ignorant.. but what is the “m on the top right side of the screen? 😅 Anyone knows? Been curious very long liao.. 🤪

[@gabriellel1118]

this channel stems from MOSG -i believe the m comes from that logo

[@gracedalvin1467]

What is the fish they are talking about?

[@CelineGenevieve]

Would be interesting to hear you guys interview free masons in Singapore. Just got to know that there is a Freemason's Hall on Coleman St and there are about 600-700 free masons in Singapore.

[@InoXtiC]

Question.. My grandmother house had a glass thing that has water with like a tall sealed glass on it. She said whenever a god (not sure which) came by the house, it will make a pop sound. The fact that i have heard and seen water droplets being splashed inside the glass. Can anyone here explain or even tell me what that glass is called? Anyone knows what I am even talking about?

[@jayng7892]

thats sun wukong coming

[@InoXtiC]

@@jayng7892 wait wait wait i not sure if it’s sun wu kong coming but have u seen such thing before? That glass thing?

[@user-yh4sg2rw3f]

@@InoXtiC 大圣爷葫芦瓶

[@InoXtiC]

@@user-yh4sg2rw3f Yes yes! what is this? How does it work? I am super confuse.

[@donut6890]

wow interesting! commenting to hear more of this :O

[@theSkinnyBasket]

Can anyone enlighten me on why are they laughing around the 11:30 mark and jon Paul is trying to control his laugh for a while

[@dear__ukkei]

The editing a bit distracting because the scene kept changing from one side to the other.

[@GiGiSchnapps]

Could you bring on a taoist medium? Would be super interesting to hear from a taoist medium haha

[@HakkaMoi]

Do check out my channel Hakka Moi as I have interviews with Taoist spirit mediums!!

[@liyingwang8760]

I reallllyyy love these contents, please do more!

[@peiwenwen1]

Thanks for coming up with the interesting episode! Just a suggestion maybe to limit the number of person talking at one time perhaps? I find it hard to concentrate and catch up with the discussion and even harder that there are no subtitles. Often one side is taking and you hear the other table cutting the speaker and laughing and all at the same time. Just my 2 cents, cheers! ;)

[@NerdTae]

taoist creation started from pan gu, whose body form the land and mountains blood turns to river n seas. and soul turns into Hua Xi an omnipotent being, who give birth to fuxi and nuwa. nuwa then created humans from clay.

[@jeslyntan5785]

im early for once! HAHAHA love the religious content! enjoy the conversations too!

[@benglim226]

Honestly nothing much similar with Buddhism. Buddhism is to cultivate our morality & purifying our internal spirituality/mind, you reap what you sow,it doesn't involve any rituals at all.Most Chinese Buddhist practitioners have add the Chinese culture to pray with offerings to a Buddha statue.Which specifically Buddha have in his teachings told his disciples not to honour or appreciate him with any kind of offerings or prayers.The best way to appreciate or show gratitude on his teachings is to practise and apply the teachings in our daily lifes eg kindness to oneself & others.Certainly not wrong if we pray to Buddha & give offerings out of respect is fine.Buddha teachings simply it must be sensible(not superstitious),logical, realistic,applicable, scientific where it can be proven to be beneficial.Yes,most of us are Buddhists in name.To know Buddhism you need to study a bit about the teachings/Dhamma.A proper Buddhist centre/temple the priority is on the teachings/knowledge with the true knowledge about yourself and the causes & effects of life and nature then you can by yourself truly resolve any problems in life and death.If a Buddhist temple do not have teachings then it is not a proper true Buddhist temple if it is merely on prayers or rituals.A true Buddhist will at least know & start with learning 1) The Four Noble truths.2) The Noble 8 Foldpaths.Anyway, the most important question we need to ask ourselves is what you want ultimately, what is your final goal or final purpose for you to learn a religion. Taoism started with Lao Zi principally is 'an art of effortless living'.Like one of you says just do it because my parents or a master tell you to do it.You just accept & believe.A bit different with The Buddha that told his disciples do not believe anything I said until you have analysed and investigated it yourself and that it make sense to you.Thanks for your interesting posting.Wishing all able to find true purpose & happiness in your life journey.

[@BoyG10]

The former prayed to mystical deities. The latter prayed to empty space.

[@khooym]

Well, Daniel you have to slow down when calling master ben

[@lalalili85]

How is this different from Chinese folk religion ?

[@marcyswdh699]

Folk is more 武 , Taoism in priest context more towards 文. 文武 together helps to sustain and prevent the religion from fading . Metaphysic , TCM is indirectly related to Taoism as well .

[@CanMakeIt]

John's awkwardness during Dan's intro rating: 3.75/10

[@JohnathanChuaa]

Booo

[@9Joule_]

“Like beach road prawn noodles” i laughed as hard as JP

[@Grizzlebearify]

Wah it’s really interesting content and I love learning so much about religion. I took an undergraduate class on religion and it’s so fascinating. Love this content

[@goddanner]

This interview very interesting, learn a lot!

[@VictorThang-b5p]

Taoism is practicing good in life.

[@infinitelight465]

Interesting episode. Like to know more about buddhism.

[@SailorKY07]

interesting video! how about a Hindu priest next? :)

[@farrhanng]

pretty cool. maybe can share more on the esotoric side.

[@cherricam]

answering the real qns frfr 😌😌

[@sohbeemeng2394]

It's not a joke guys...not a laughing matter..be careful what you deal with..the supernatural can be very vengeful.

[@Bubbleteafication]

Watching JP try not to laugh makes me laugh LMAO

[@calvinxiong942]

Next time get a medium?

[@anna_wong]

Er.... so is Guan Yin classified under Buddishism or Taoism?

[@HakkaMoi]

Guan Yin straddles both just like Guan Gong

[@roberttran435]

A chinese taoist priest told me that Dizang wang(ksitigarbha) guan yin and guan gong are the only deities or protectors that appear in both taoism and buddhism regardless of their origin.

[@ysh8]

Invite a medium please!

[@Ben-kh2rh]

I LOVE THIS PODCAST

[@tulipsandpeaches1834]

In an alternate universe where Christian Aiken is Taoist Aiken, this would be it

[@Dorimeme187]

maybe do hindu priest, sikh guru and jewish rabbi episodes in future?

[@Kevin-iw4sd]

invite a medium next to the show.

[@NerdTae]

jon keep smirking sia tsktsk lol

[@Rice60640]

I still don’t know the difference.

[@penguin0101]

Understand you had the buddhist from mahayana tradition. U gotta bring in a thai buddhist monk, the original gangsta forest monk haha! Theres some in SG.

[@tsbelmer7265uuu]

Taoism is teaching of cause and effect or karma. Buddhism is an education of wisdom. Both were never a religion. Loa Tzu and Buddha are both human not god.

[@janeteo5468]

why that woman must laugh so loud, she should watch her manner & respect to laugh so loudly

[@calbee8878]

i love this master

[@phoebsthepothead]

its ok JP I laughed at your Aesop comment

[@shadowchicken8629]

talisman got expire date?

[@932v]

Please do 1 with a Hindu priest

[@Ace-cv1xd]

isnt it the case whereby certain christian demons can only be exorcised by certain phrases in a bible or something like this.

[@blessingsfromabv]

Inclusive show: all the talispeople

[@pearlynlo8095]

This clears up many questions!! Thanks guys for having this religious content.👍🏻😊End part was sick tho. Never knew abt the Ying Yang symbol with the hands. 👍🏻

[@EIJIHS]

fkin hell the CD crack me up so much!!

[@98621739]

Wanna know why we can’t eat beef :< hahaha

[@victortancheongwee]

Buddhism and Taoism are different folk, not the same not even by 1%..Taoism are related tangkee.

[@melfanglord]

I cannot believe jon paul thinks aquaman is marvel…

[@eugeneho8677]

Is Daniel...a chinese?

[@naanyangdiaries]

CDs are to ward of crows/pigeons/mynahs

[@matthewss0]

Wahoooo new ep!

[@saf00]

lost interest once he says he cant see ghosts. lol.

[@Joyce_wooah]

Im curious abt Judaism!

[@tengkuelleiatengkuibrahim3952]

e Hindu Sami haven't come, rite?

[@sinlim2915]

taoism is the real religion of chinese, from zhou china 1000bc ; buddhism is came from india very slowly into china after han china collapsed , especially tang china 900ad

[@jamieheartz]

want an ep with a chinese medium!!

[@familystones]

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