Yoda's line on detachments changed my entire life. It's always hard to explain to people that the greatest improvement in my life came from always reminding myself, "to let go, of everything I fear to lose"
It's not about letting go, but about giving things their limited value. Stoicism talks about this basically, so you could like the Discourses of Epictetus and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius!
people aren't entitled to our explanation. They wouldn't understand anyway if they can't. But those who are wise enough, they'll immediately understand. They are your tribe and the once you'll never regret to keep
@Isaac Gull fool, you assume your opponents argument and claim to be superior. Your false wisdom is only accepted by those that are ignorant and shielded from ideas.
@Tiger Joe Do you fight your opponent in chess? I bloody hope not. The opponent argument isn't "detachment is like being a robot". If you detach yourself from everything then what duty do you have? I haven't seen a youtuber that practices this to not start falling to the left. It is most evident when you go back to 2016 with trump. It shows how much of a farce trying to give everything up is.
But in forgoing personal attachments, Yoda becomes personally attached to the Jedi and the Jedi way itself. He still experiences great personal loss when the Jedi are wiped out. There is no avoiding loss. This is why it's so powerful when young Luke rejects Yoda's insinsitence on letting his friends die to stay and dutifully finish his Jedi training. By choosing to love anyway despite the inevitability of loss, Luke is able to OVERCOME the fear/anger/hate rather than just AVOIDING the love that might lead there. He's even able to lead Anakin to redemption because he allows himself to feel for him. His strength is not in the mechanical rejection of attachment and feelings Yoda teaches, but in the choice of trusting his feelings, trusting his love for his friends and family to guide him better than hate or fear could, and certainly better than fear of fear could.
Loss hurts when it happens, but being afraid of loss is a lifelong torture. I love my mother, and when she dies i will cry her, but i don't suffer every day because of her mortality, it's the contrary i enjoy her everyday.
If you want an extreme example of fear of loss, you can think of borderline people, who are so afraid of being abandon that they end up driving everyone away.
I grew up watching so much Star Wars. Always attracted to the Jedi depth of philosophical principles.. I have listened to many different philosophy talks by the late great Alan Watts on this. As well as many different quotes of the Buddha and well the truth is to let go of all desire had by the ego. The desire to let go is a desire all of its own. So yes do or do not is essential philosophy here. Be or be not! The middle way perhaps is the best discipline to follow. Be your own leader the native indigenous peoples always have said. Follow your heart! Hurt no one! Respect all life! Honor the entire creation in all aspects. Align with the truth of all creation. The hero’s journey ultimately is the path I Myself resonate with best. Not the victim, not the villain and not the damsel in distress. The hero always! Long live the hero’s of existence. Glory to the creator in all of this with respect, wisdom and always love.
Well the plan for the sequel trilogy was, I quote CEO of lucasfilm: "to make something for the fans"there was no plan or idea. Their mindset was to make more star wars not to make a good and relevant story. Atleast I see it this way
Can you do a video about the philosophy of uncle Iroh form the avatar or master oogway from Kung Fu panda, or any other wise character from animations and movies
This was not meant to be an absolute truth for everyone. It was spoken to Luke in that moment in reference to using The Force to lift his ship from the swamp.
I started straining to be the life guard and the first thing my instructor said was :" as the wise Yoda said, do or do not there is no try". Needless to say, I think he is awesome
Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader is one of the greatest characters in the history of film. I can personally relate to so many aspects of the characters personality. For me he is an inspiration, while I can understand his choices because I feel like I would make the same ones I also believe there is so much to learn from them. I’m watching The Clone Wars right now and honestly I’m learning so much more about this character in that series than I ever did from the films. Thank you George Lucas for this titan of a character, he’s tragic and inspiring all at once.
You can relate to Vader. So... How many younglings did you kill? Personally, I've slain about 250 so far. I'm working on getting 100% you know. Jokes aside, he is one of the most relatable characters to me as well, if we ignore genocide and youngling-slaying.
Young environmental activists would be an example. Some do not even have the ability to identify whether their intentions are good, others know they are not and go forth anyway. Examining one's own motivations to their roots is core spiritual practice for a better world. But the kind of conundrum is that it requires to begin with a sincere inquiry, which is a decision towards inner change, and if that is not there, then anything following is just a deception.
The problem with stoic ideas is that when you need them you do not realize it because of the young age and lack of proper education, when you realize that they are needed it is usually too late, because the best years have already passed. For example Marcus Aurelius was raised in the spirit of stoicism, the Jedi, too, with childhood prepare for their missions.
Jedism is the need of the hour in the trouble battered world of ours. So many good people are falling to the dark side and are suffering. In order to end this the wisdom and teachings of the Jedi masters are needed. May the force be with us all.
Thanks for this. Many people love Yoda. There are many real-world wisdom traditions on which the Jedi were based. I find it helpful to delve into these for a richer understanding.
Interesting video, as always. Thanks! I would say Yoda's teachings are more related to Taoism than to Buddhism: the emphasis is more on being one with all, flowing along with it and being in balance with it, where Buddhism is more focussed on eliminating suffering through improving oneself, so a more negative starting point as opposed to the neutral starting point of Taoism. The difference isn't huge, but it's there.
Qui Gon Jin seems like a taoist even more then Yoda. He trusts the force and believes it would eventually lead to balance and that the force itself gives people hints (like him meeting Anakin) to achieve balance
Yoda is also, to some degree, a Budhist, for he lacks interest in pursuing his passions and his inner desires, which is compatible with the ascetic way of life promoted in Budhism (and Christianism, and Islam for that matter). At the end of the day, despite its differences, all religions share a foundational universal metaphysics, and Star Wars' philosophy is compatible with the system of thought of all religions, not only one in particular.
@@bimsherwood7006 it's the attitude that matters. If you take on a challenge by "trying", you'll most likely fail, you have to believe you'll succeed first.
@@thaik56 believing you will necessarily succeed at things when you won't has some side effects. Firstly, when you inevitably fail at something, you will be disappointed. Secondly, admitting no reason to quit means you will act with immoderation. It is not obvious to me that one must lie to oneself to achieve anything.
@@bimsherwood7006 The meaning of the quote is that you either give it your all or dont do it at all, with the mindset of ¨trying¨ you are not doing the best you can, its not about expectations or the outcome, if you fail (wich will inevitably happen as you said) you still gave it your all and you keep learning. ¨Do or do not, there is no try¨ = ¨Give it your all or dont do it at all, there is no try¨, at least thats the way I understood the quote
Not necessarily, but can be true. You can be aware of when your darkside expresses itself openly or even in your thoughts, but most of the time we don't notice it coming from us and instead see our projection of it in others. Darkside is negativity, but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad or evil. We judge it that way and relegate that negativity to the subconscious where we can pretend those ugly traits aren't a part of us. It's like fracturing pieces of ourselves off and throwing them away, only they never go anywhere. They pop up in other ways that we don't often notice because we don't accept them as part of us. When you do stuff like therapy, self-inquiry, shadow work, we dig into our minds and pull these things back into the light, forgive ourselves for hating these parts of ourselves, and integrating them back into the whole.
@@timeandattention3945 that's true, which is part of integration. Without becoming aware of our darkside, it sorta just runs on autopilot, causing problems where we only notice the symptoms until we become aware of the fact that we are the source of the problems.
As much as I love Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn was the embodiment of a true Jedi. While Yoda advised Qui-Gon's apprentice to be mindful of the future, Qui-Gon cautioned to not be so mindful of the future that it comes at the expense of the moment. A true Jedi is not focused on outcomes, which is a mindset based in fear. Instead, they focus on the moment, quiet their minds and listen to the will of the Force, which is a mindset based in trust. Yoda and the rest of the Jedi council were shown in the prequels to have lost their way, slowly diminishing their ability to hear and use the Force. With the disappearance and absence of their mortal enemies, the Sith, for the last 25,000 years, they had become complacent and arrogant. Their Jedi code had become a rigid dogma they had ironically become attached to. Instead of listening to the will of the Force, they were then servants of the Republic, doing *its* will and whatever else they believed to be for the greater good. Inevitably, the Sith took control of the galaxy right under their noses and transformed the Republic into an Empire.
It’s sad that you think this. Do you believe this to be the intended lesson or do you know it’s your own interpretation? It’s many other jaded adults interpretation too but I’m just wondering if you know the truth, and that this is a “head-canon”?
@@vintifada7115 It's just his interpretation, he never claimed it to be the "only official one". That's the beauty of Star Wars, that it allows for multiple different interpretations and it enhances a rich philosophical debate.
@@jameswalker6864 The way he puts it doesn’t come across as just his own interpretation. This is a constant excuse I hear everyone bring up even tho everything they say points to them thinking their belief about the story is the real one George actually intended. The verbiage used reads like he believes it’s the way George Lucas intended it to be. And I asked him openly I’m allowing him to clarify himself. So should you. People deny the truth of the real story by the actual creator of the films and think their interpretation is the real one. So that’s a subtle but important and significant difference between saying “I see how the creators made it that way and that’s the real intention but I think it makes more sense this way” and “I think the creators of Star Wars made it the way I see it.” I’m not afraid of philosophical debate but that’s not what this is. This is a debate about the facts and meaning within the Star Wars universe
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Let me tell you this is one of the greatest videos you have done. So didactic to understand our human nature and how stoicism and buddhism can help us to deal with it.
“One often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it” - Master Oogway. It’d be pretty cool if you did a similar video to this one addressing the wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
To "train yourself to let go..." and Anakin failing to do so because not having himself under control, here a sentence from Edgar Cayce: "The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds." I also think: The more older you become, the more easy is to understand letting go, but Yoda forgot that Anakin is young and feelings are different at that age. He should have trained in this thing, not only saying it.
Star wars Lead Me into the path of buddhism, as a young guy i watched all the movies and i saw the message you tell on this video. Thanks You for sharing it. greetings from Argentina
These Star Wars philosophies you created are super cool. And very well done! Thank you very much, and congratulations to you for creating such a great work of art for our enjoyment and learning. 🥇🏆✔️
Love your content bro, i have seen all your videos, literally, most of which helped me, and some just gave me informations because I can't really accept everything according to my values. But I honestly respect your work. You probably had to study deeply to have this much knowledge and put it together in your videos as well, thank you for the hard work .
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It's not attachment that causes issues, it's the desire for control. Attachment is a good thing. Humans need positive and loving attachment. It's when we seek control events or others that bad things happen. It is not Anakin's attachment to Padme that is the problem, it is him seeking to control the future.
People hear the flashy quotes of Buddhism/Taoism/Stoicism™ about detachment and emptiness and letting go and think that's all their is to it. Detatch from reality stop caring and all will be well. Buddha encouraged (via the four noble truths and the eightfold path) a middle way between the extremes. Similar, but not quite the same as the Buddhist middle path, Stoicism used the virtue ethics of Aristotle to cleave a middle path. For example, between letting go and gripping tight rests loosening your grasp. Between brave and rash lays courage. Between asceticism and debauchery is temperance. Between tightfisted and loose lies charity blah, blah, blah. The virtue ethics itself has the built in fail safe with it's middle way, it just requires a bit of introspection or self awareness to notice if you're becoming a bit too extreme in your adherence to that middle way. It has built in wriggle room for the complex and interdependent mess we call life. Another thing about western interpretation of Buddhism's "emptiness" is that it does mean empty in the modern western nihilistic sense - it means everything is interdependent and does not exist in a vacuum. So a bike is not a bike, it is just the sum of all of its parts and everything that went into it, and those things are the sum of their parts and those things that went into the making of that and so on and so forth. So emptiness and detachment in Western interpretation, I believe gets taken to an extreme and taken out of context. From a Buddhist standpoint, we cannot detatch and set ourselves free because we are dependent on everything above, below, around, within and without us. I believe Star Wars philosophy cannot really pinned to any philosophy because of how shallow it is. It is a mish-mash of cool and mystical sounding platitudes, which, when examined with a critical eye falls apart due to its incoherence and lack of foundation.
I guess I knew this day was coming; after so many good and pertinent episodes, we get one on an imaginary character and philosophy. You're too good for this.
There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. (Equanimity is key but not the end goal) There is no passion; there is serenity. (Detachment sets us free) There is no chaos; there is harmony. (Darkness will consume us) There is no death; there is the Force. (Fear leads us into darkness)
To me, the darkness described here is not darkness but ego. Light and dark is like yang and yin. They go together. Sometimes, even science shows “light” coming from “dark.”
George Lucas made a big spiritual contribution in this world =) I wonder sometimes, what he thought and felt about this world, when he was thinking to create Star Wars... If all Star Wars Fans really take the wisodm of Yoda seriously, then the world would be a much more peaceful place.
There's more prequels footage than I would've expected going in. I was mostly... fine with it, albeit a tad disappointed, but that compounded immensely after #4 -- Darkness will consume us -- did not include Yoda's quote about his death. "“Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me; soon, night must fall.” Night must fall. All days end in night as all nights end in day; as with all manifestations of what the Taoists call yin and yang, light and dark imply and require each other, as do life and death, matter and emptiness, and so on. This demonstrates the peculiar failing of the Jedi -- their single-minded devotion to the light makes them ignore the reality of darkness inherent to our universe. Kreia, the most profoundly wise character in all of Star Wars, illustrates this in a way that no Jedi or Sith ever could. In short, play KOTOR 2 and never watch another Disney film ever again
@Kevin Walker I think that your belief that understanding Kreia's philosophy leads inevitably to hating or denouncing the Star Wars franchise isn't quite true. Rather, it illustrates the true nature of the Force and its overarching universe -- a conflict in which the dark side is always losing but never loses and the light is always winning but never wins. The Force is the best illustration of the Divine I've seen in fiction; it's all things, light and dark, good and evil, matter and space. Surely, the Jedi and Sith have applicable wisdom for us. The Jedi through their stoic space-Buddhism and detachment, the SIth through their Nietzsche-esque devotion to evolution through conflict. But their universe is truly vicious and cyclical. This does not mean we cannot appreciate its place in fiction, or that no Force user could eventually rise above the Sith-Jedi dichotomy. Revan has that potential, though I assume Disney will squander it. To illustrate my point, I turn your attention to our own brutal history. Think of Verdun, where 300,000 soldiers died in the First World War. Or the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where 200,000 or more civilians were vaporized or given radiation poisoning; the people closest to the blast were reduced to shadows on sidewalks. I assume you've played KOTOR 2. Think of Malachor V, the death of an entire planet in seconds, and the wound that left on the Exile -- it created a total absence of the Force, a person more lifeless than rock, more empty than space. The fictional universe containing that unspeakable horror is a reflection of our own. The next section of this mammoth comment comes from an essay I've written about KOTOR II. Time is cyclical; again and again, countless lives are lost in the name of balance. Kreia seeks release, what certain Buddhists believe to be Nirvana - a total void, final release from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. So then, in the caverns of Trayus Academy at the end of KOTOR II, in which Kreia once again dons the mask of Darth Traya, a struggle between void and existence are taking place. For should Kreia succeed in destroying the Force, in committing deicide, nothing would remain. People would not experience the Exile’s decision to abandon the Force en masse - people would not exist, nor would matter, nor space, nor light, nor darkness, nor anything. The Force is all atoms, all empty spaces, all people, all creatures, all rocks, all waves, all planets, all stars. Should Kreia succeed in defeating the Exile within Malachor V, should the Force indeed die, the Universe itself would collapse. But to paraphrase the philosopher Alan Watts, what’s it like to die, to fall asleep and never wake up? This can only be answered with another mystery - what’s it like to wake up without ever having been asleep? That’s when you were born. Apply this to the death of the Force, the Tao, God, Brahman, whatever you want to call the central self of the Universe, and what will happen? All things will collapse. The bonds between cells within all bodies, everywhere, anywhere, anytime will fall apart. The planets and machines will dissolve into their requisite elements. Everything will return to void. But it will be born again. The big bang will recur. The cycle will begin anew. For perpetual nonexistence is not an experience which can be had. For anything to be, the Force, the Tao, Brahman, God, the Self, will rise as a phoenix of experience from the ashes of the void. Malachor V will once again crush opposing fleets into dust and the Exile will once again feel hundreds of thousands of deaths at once, will once again turn away from the Force, will once again be outcast by the Jedi Order, will once again feel the Force, will once again confront Kreia in the Trayus Academy. And eventually, in one of many turns of Samsara, the wheel of existence, the Exile will understand who and what she is - an act of, a performance of, a manifestation of, the whole cosmos - and she will succeed, will stop her teacher from destroying the Universe. This is what Kreia can teach us. We are the Force.
This is really a great video! I am watching again SW episodes (1977-2003) and it is quite true that what Lucas has put in the 'jedi philosophy' is the synthesis of those doctrines. I woul like to add that everyone has lights and shadows on his paths and (maybe) the 'dark side' of the Jedi doctrine is to push expectations too hard and in a not respecting way of everyone timing. So it is a long and winding road to practice this doctrine in everyday life and (as Lucas said) everyday you make choices and confront yourself between your 'good' and the 'bad' side.
The tenants are based from Hinduism. Buddhism came afterwards.. Detachment and dissolution of ones ego is the foundation talked about throughout the Bhagavad Gita. The concepts of meditation and yoga predate Buddhism contained in the Upanishads. The relationship between our existence and the Cosmos is mentioned as Purusha and Prakriti.
Great episode! Thanks to your philosophical analysis of Star Wars films, I now see a deeper meaning in Star Wars and prequel films in particular. Prequels is really a tragic story of a man broken by fate: he was detached from his mother too early, leaving him emotionally scarred (attachment disorder) and underdeveloped, then when presented by prospect of losing another female figure in his life, that he has grown attached to, he tries to exert control over his fate, but fell into a manipulation trap by sinister people. Overall he never had real control over his life. A really tragic character. It's too bad Lucas completely failed as a filmmaker to give it proper treatment. Instead of a bombastic hodge podge mess that we got, it should have been straight, focused character drama, with better casting.
Yoda's line on detachments changed my entire life. It's always hard to explain to people that the greatest improvement in my life came from always reminding myself, "to let go, of everything I fear to lose"
Agreed
That's powerful
Real talk.
It's not about letting go, but about giving things their limited value. Stoicism talks about this basically, so you could like the Discourses of Epictetus and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius!
people aren't entitled to our explanation. They wouldn't understand anyway if they can't. But those who are wise enough, they'll immediately understand. They are your tribe and the once you'll never regret to keep
People think that detachment is like becoming a robot.
Where in reality, detachment leads to truly, genuine presence and appreciation of the moment.
@Isaac Gull Great one
@Isaac Gull fool, you assume your opponents argument and claim to be superior. Your false wisdom is only accepted by those that are ignorant and shielded from ideas.
@Tiger Joe Do you fight your opponent in chess?
I bloody hope not.
The opponent argument isn't "detachment is like being a robot".
If you detach yourself from everything then what duty do you have? I haven't seen a youtuber that practices this to not start falling to the left.
It is most evident when you go back to 2016 with trump. It shows how much of a farce trying to give everything up is.
exactly
Sha lala dudemlala
That's why I'm still single. It's against the Jedi code to have a relationship.
me too buddy ...
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Rishav Siddhanta >>> If only the world was different. Or is it ourselves?
Hahahahaha 😭
@Priyanka Gupta nice XD
I love Star Wars mainly because of the philosophy it channels. I was waiting for this discussion.
@Destroyer I agree.
Yeah its a shame Disney have polluted it with their communist agenda
@@Hero_Of_Old What is communism and how does it relate to Star Wars? :-D
@@Hero_Of_Old
More like Socialism than Communism to me
@@Athanatoi Socialism is a precursor to Communism
But in forgoing personal attachments, Yoda becomes personally attached to the Jedi and the Jedi way itself. He still experiences great personal loss when the Jedi are wiped out. There is no avoiding loss.
This is why it's so powerful when young Luke rejects Yoda's insinsitence on letting his friends die to stay and dutifully finish his Jedi training. By choosing to love anyway despite the inevitability of loss, Luke is able to OVERCOME the fear/anger/hate rather than just AVOIDING the love that might lead there. He's even able to lead Anakin to redemption because he allows himself to feel for him. His strength is not in the mechanical rejection of attachment and feelings Yoda teaches, but in the choice of trusting his feelings, trusting his love for his friends and family to guide him better than hate or fear could, and certainly better than fear of fear could.
Ahh, dual nature of all things, sadly there's price to pay, any way we go
Loss hurts when it happens, but being afraid of loss is a lifelong torture. I love my mother, and when she dies i will cry her, but i don't suffer every day because of her mortality, it's the contrary i enjoy her everyday.
If you want an extreme example of fear of loss, you can think of borderline people, who are so afraid of being abandon that they end up driving everyone away.
True you say, strong you are 🤭
I grew up watching so much Star Wars. Always attracted to the Jedi depth of philosophical principles.. I have listened to many different philosophy talks by the late great Alan Watts on this. As well as many different quotes of the Buddha and well the truth is to let go of all desire had by the ego. The desire to let go is a desire all of its own. So yes do or do not is essential philosophy here. Be or be not! The middle way perhaps is the best discipline to follow. Be your own leader the native indigenous peoples always have said. Follow your heart! Hurt no one! Respect all life! Honor the entire creation in all aspects. Align with the truth of all creation. The hero’s journey ultimately is the path I Myself resonate with best. Not the victim, not the villain and not the damsel in distress. The hero always! Long live the hero’s of existence. Glory to the creator in all of this with respect, wisdom and always love.
I'm convinced that Disney has no idea what the force or the Jedi are.
Well the plan for the sequel trilogy was, I quote CEO of lucasfilm: "to make something for the fans"there was no plan or idea. Their mindset was to make more star wars not to make a good and relevant story. Atleast I see it this way
The Force I think means $$ signs. At least that's what I learned from Disney.
Disney not only knows da force but forcefully using it for their gain my notice Jedi
Disney should hire Einzelgänger.
Disney also refers to lightsabers as "laser swords" and believes that the Force is female.
Can you do a video about the philosophy of uncle Iroh form the avatar or master oogway from Kung Fu panda, or any other wise character from animations and movies
Yes PLEASE!!!
THIS PLEASE
Yeah, especially Uncle Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender
AGREEE!!!!
iroh please
"There is no trying, you do, or do not."
That is just Yoda trying to sound wise
This was not meant to be an absolute truth for everyone. It was spoken to Luke in that moment in reference to using The Force to lift his ship from the swamp.
I started straining to be the life guard and the first thing my instructor said was :" as the wise Yoda said, do or do not there is no try".
Needless to say, I think he is awesome
Also yoda: only a sith believes in absolutes
@@arai6147 what's ironic is that that statement itself is an absolute
The philosophy of Star wars has changed my life immensely, Legends also continues the grand sagas of wisdom ❤
This is my favorite video so far. I've been trying to tie myself to the jedi philosophy for years and this helps to put it into words. Thank you
Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader is one of the greatest characters in the history of film. I can personally relate to so many aspects of the characters personality. For me he is an inspiration, while I can understand his choices because I feel like I would make the same ones I also believe there is so much to learn from them. I’m watching The Clone Wars right now and honestly I’m learning so much more about this character in that series than I ever did from the films. Thank you George Lucas for this titan of a character, he’s tragic and inspiring all at once.
You can relate to Vader.
So... How many younglings did you kill? Personally, I've slain about 250 so far. I'm working on getting 100% you know.
Jokes aside, he is one of the most relatable characters to me as well, if we ignore genocide and youngling-slaying.
This video is exactly what I wanted honestly
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I 100% agree!!!
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I agree. I found him just within the last six months.
The dangers of an untrained mind....that hit deep
Young environmental activists would be an example. Some do not even have the ability to identify whether their intentions are good, others know they are not and go forth anyway.
Examining one's own motivations to their roots is core spiritual practice for a better world. But the kind of conundrum is that it requires to begin with a sincere inquiry, which is a decision towards inner change, and if that is not there, then anything following is just a deception.
So much videos and content about inner peace, yet only few people have inner peace
Eloquently and succinctly expressed. Thank you.
can you do a Wisdom of Oogway from Kung Fu Panda?
Yes please!!!!!!
Yuppppp
In the Oogway Ascends scene, he has a very Taoist conversation about the illusion of control. He's a very Taoist character in general.
Thank you for this. Star Wars' Jedi is what caused be to study Buddhism and implement its teachings into my life.
Keep up the good work!
The problem with stoic ideas is that when you need them you do not realize it because of the young age and lack of proper education, when you realize that they are needed it is usually too late, because the best years have already passed. For example Marcus Aurelius was raised in the spirit of stoicism, the Jedi, too, with childhood prepare for their missions.
Zero I love you for that speech man. I really appreciate
Never to late, brother.
One of your best, Einzelganger. Thank you.
Jedism is the need of the hour in the trouble battered world of ours. So many good people are falling to the dark side and are suffering. In order to end this the wisdom and teachings of the Jedi masters are needed. May the force be with us all.
Another OUTSTANDING lesson excellently presented and chronicle. Brilliant work of exposition. Thanks for your hard work it surely is appreciated.
Thanks for this. Many people love Yoda. There are many real-world wisdom traditions on which the Jedi were based. I find it helpful to delve into these for a richer understanding.
"The greatest teacher, failure is." Last Jedi
“We are what they grow beyond, that is the burden of all masters”
"There is no success like failure, and failure's no success at all." (Bob Dylan.)
and hoo boi, disney has a lot to learn.
The movie that ruined and totally misunderstood the Jedi ideology...
and also Luke Skywalker
Except that that film totally misunderstood what the Force and Jedi are all about.
One of the best videos you ever uploaded
Beautiful. I am one with the Force. And the Force is with me.
Slurping soup, very slowly and deliberately......the stoicism of baby Yoda.
@Stoned Outlaw ,
Interesting video, as always. Thanks!
I would say Yoda's teachings are more related to Taoism than to Buddhism: the emphasis is more on being one with all, flowing along with it and being in balance with it, where Buddhism is more focussed on eliminating suffering through improving oneself, so a more negative starting point as opposed to the neutral starting point of Taoism. The difference isn't huge, but it's there.
people see "zen" and jump to conclusions without looking deeper
Qui Gon Jin seems like a taoist even more then Yoda. He trusts the force and believes it would eventually lead to balance and that the force itself gives people hints (like him meeting Anakin) to achieve balance
Yoda is also, to some degree, a Budhist, for he lacks interest in pursuing his passions and his inner desires, which is compatible with the ascetic way of life promoted in Budhism (and Christianism, and Islam for that matter). At the end of the day, despite its differences, all religions share a foundational universal metaphysics, and Star Wars' philosophy is compatible with the system of thought of all religions, not only one in particular.
Thank you because this hit home for me! I am a big Star Wars Fan and now a new fan of Stoicism!
You forgot
"Do or do not, there is no try."
That's because it's wrong. 'Try' is all we have. Doing and not doing (success and failure in external aims) is not within our power.
@@bimsherwood7006 it's the attitude that matters. If you take on a challenge by "trying", you'll most likely fail, you have to believe you'll succeed first.
@@thaik56 believing you will necessarily succeed at things when you won't has some side effects. Firstly, when you inevitably fail at something, you will be disappointed. Secondly, admitting no reason to quit means you will act with immoderation. It is not obvious to me that one must lie to oneself to achieve anything.
@@bimsherwood7006 The meaning of the quote is that you either give it your all or dont do it at all, with the mindset of ¨trying¨ you are not doing the best you can, its not about expectations or the outcome, if you fail (wich will inevitably happen as you said) you still gave it your all and you keep learning. ¨Do or do not, there is no try¨ = ¨Give it your all or dont do it at all, there is no try¨, at least thats the way I understood the quote
Or in our term it’s “Do or Die.”
AWESOME (as always) thanks so much for the great work.🙏🏼🍀 Thank you.
Thank you.... and may the force be with you.....
Thanks for always uploading! Always looking forward to all your videos. More power! More Stoic power to us all! May we prosper
Excellent video! Not enough people understand the importance of Stoicism and Buddhism in understanding Jedi Philosophy.
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Awesome video, I just loved the conclusion focused on us, the humans and how we have to learn about the jedi philosophy
yoda taught me to stay away from ketamine
and Honda civics
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I dont get the ketamine joke..
@@earthlingavian1132 He was referencing the Lego Yoda memes.
The darkside is the subconscious mind. Consciousness is light
Not necessarily, but can be true. You can be aware of when your darkside expresses itself openly or even in your thoughts, but most of the time we don't notice it coming from us and instead see our projection of it in others.
Darkside is negativity, but that doesn't mean it's inherently bad or evil. We judge it that way and relegate that negativity to the subconscious where we can pretend those ugly traits aren't a part of us. It's like fracturing pieces of ourselves off and throwing them away, only they never go anywhere. They pop up in other ways that we don't often notice because we don't accept them as part of us.
When you do stuff like therapy, self-inquiry, shadow work, we dig into our minds and pull these things back into the light, forgive ourselves for hating these parts of ourselves, and integrating them back into the whole.
They are both both dark and light
@@krieghart5515 once you are aware then it is no longer subconscious i.e dark
@@timeandattention3945 that's true, which is part of integration. Without becoming aware of our darkside, it sorta just runs on autopilot, causing problems where we only notice the symptoms until we become aware of the fact that we are the source of the problems.
As much as I love Yoda, Qui-Gon Jinn was the embodiment of a true Jedi. While Yoda advised Qui-Gon's apprentice to be mindful of the future, Qui-Gon cautioned to not be so mindful of the future that it comes at the expense of the moment. A true Jedi is not focused on outcomes, which is a mindset based in fear. Instead, they focus on the moment, quiet their minds and listen to the will of the Force, which is a mindset based in trust.
Yoda and the rest of the Jedi council were shown in the prequels to have lost their way, slowly diminishing their ability to hear and use the Force. With the disappearance and absence of their mortal enemies, the Sith, for the last 25,000 years, they had become complacent and arrogant. Their Jedi code had become a rigid dogma they had ironically become attached to.
Instead of listening to the will of the Force, they were then servants of the Republic, doing *its* will and whatever else they believed to be for the greater good. Inevitably, the Sith took control of the galaxy right under their noses and transformed the Republic into an Empire.
It’s sad that you think this. Do you believe this to be the intended lesson or do you know it’s your own interpretation? It’s many other jaded adults interpretation too but I’m just wondering if you know the truth, and that this is a “head-canon”?
@@vintifada7115 It's just his interpretation, he never claimed it to be the "only official one". That's the beauty of Star Wars, that it allows for multiple different interpretations and it enhances a rich philosophical debate.
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The way he puts it doesn’t come across as just his own interpretation. This is a constant excuse I hear everyone bring up even tho everything they say points to them thinking their belief about the story is the real one George actually intended. The verbiage used reads like he believes it’s the way George Lucas intended it to be. And I asked him openly I’m allowing him to clarify himself. So should you.
People deny the truth of the real story by the actual creator of the films and think their interpretation is the real one. So that’s a subtle but important and significant difference between saying “I see how the creators made it that way and that’s the real intention but I think it makes more sense this way” and “I think the creators of Star Wars made it the way I see it.” I’m not afraid of philosophical debate but that’s not what this is. This is a debate about the facts and meaning within the Star Wars universe
I love this video and it all makes sense. One of your greatest video so thank you
Thank you for this video. Thank you for the message. Thank you for creating good works for the betterment of humanity. Your efforts are felt, and they matter.
An excellent summation of the Jedi lifestyle and core beliefs. Well done!
Let me tell you this is one of the greatest videos you have done. So didactic to understand our human nature and how stoicism and buddhism can help us to deal with it.
The story of the Jedi is very, very similar to the ancient Egyptians “Djedi” ... This topic would make for an interesting video
thank you!
Guerlain made a perfume named Djedi which smelled so beautiful. It's sadly disc.
agreed i would love an
open discussion on that topic
“One often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it” - Master Oogway. It’d be pretty cool if you did a similar video to this one addressing the wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
To "train yourself to let go..." and Anakin failing to do so because not having himself under control, here a sentence from Edgar Cayce: "The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds." I also think: The more older you become, the more easy is to understand letting go, but Yoda forgot that Anakin is young and feelings are different at that age. He should have trained in this thing, not only saying it.
Thank you for your wonderful videos. They are very educational. I deeply appreciate it.
Wow! This is truly a very good and interesting video. Thank you for this type of content on youtube!
Thank you for this video, and thank you for all the content that you produce.
Star wars Lead Me into the path of buddhism, as a young guy i watched all the movies and i saw the message you tell on this video. Thanks You for sharing it.
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May the force be with you.
Great video, thank you! :)
As a spiritual Guru I changed a Quote from Yoda
Where there is love
Love leads to anger
Anger leads to pain
Pain leads to hate 🙏
As a Buddhist I am profoundly moved by Yoda & the Jedi. I relate. Happy Winter Solstice! May your New Year be bright! Peace
Always a pleasure to see your videos. Thanks.
These Star Wars philosophies you created are super cool. And very well done! Thank you very much, and congratulations to you for creating such a great work of art for our enjoyment and learning.
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Love your content bro, i have seen all your videos, literally, most of which helped me, and some just gave me informations because I can't really accept everything according to my values. But I honestly respect your work. You probably had to study deeply to have this much knowledge and put it together in your videos as well, thank you for the hard work .
ThankYou for putting it out there💝 I love your stuff.
Yoda is my favorite character.
Oh I have been looking for this so long
you should do a video on miyamoto musashi
Serbianhero pls do
Yoda was always my fav character
I was just looking up yoda quotes just yesterday......
You read my mind Einzelgänger!!!!!.....
Man I really enjoyed this video. Love the channel. I love the comparison of the Jedi philosophy to Taoism and stoicism. Great job
This is so well done! Thank you!
Can you do a video about Morpheus Wisdom in The Matrix? It could be such a great video!
Fernando, would you be kind to go to my channel? I only have two videos i posted a few weeks ago, I'm absolutely convinced you will enjoy them. Let me know thoughts.
Morpheus “There’s a different between knowing the path and walking on it”
It's not attachment that causes issues, it's the desire for control. Attachment is a good thing. Humans need positive and loving attachment. It's when we seek control events or others that bad things happen. It is not Anakin's attachment to Padme that is the problem, it is him seeking to control the future.
"At me bro you come!"
- Yoda
I love you for this. Thank you 🙏
People hear the flashy quotes of Buddhism/Taoism/Stoicism™ about detachment and emptiness and letting go and think that's all their is to it. Detatch from reality stop caring and all will be well.
Buddha encouraged (via the four noble truths and the eightfold path) a middle way between the extremes.
Similar, but not quite the same as the Buddhist middle path, Stoicism used the virtue ethics of Aristotle to cleave a middle path. For example, between letting go and gripping tight rests loosening your grasp. Between brave and rash lays courage. Between asceticism and debauchery is temperance. Between tightfisted and loose lies charity blah, blah, blah. The virtue ethics itself has the built in fail safe with it's middle way, it just requires a bit of introspection or self awareness to notice if you're becoming a bit too extreme in your adherence to that middle way. It has built in wriggle room for the complex and interdependent mess we call life.
Another thing about western interpretation of Buddhism's "emptiness" is that it does mean empty in the modern western nihilistic sense - it means everything is interdependent and does not exist in a vacuum. So a bike is not a bike, it is just the sum of all of its parts and everything that went into it, and those things are the sum of their parts and those things that went into the making of that and so on and so forth.
So emptiness and detachment in Western interpretation, I believe gets taken to an extreme and taken out of context.
From a Buddhist standpoint, we cannot detatch and set ourselves free because we are dependent on everything above, below, around, within and without us.
I believe Star Wars philosophy cannot really pinned to any philosophy because of how shallow it is. It is a mish-mash of cool and mystical sounding platitudes, which, when examined with a critical eye falls apart due to its incoherence and lack of foundation.
I always think of the worst losses that I could suffer, and what I would have to do to move on. In this way, I am not afraid.
Amazing video. Highlights everything that is wrong with me. 😅
Thank u so much . I really needed it. Appreciate u a lot ❤️
I guess I knew this day was coming; after so many good and pertinent episodes, we get one on an imaginary character and philosophy. You're too good for this.
I love your videos and channel. More Star Wars content please Einzelganger
I think this is a very profound video. Thank you
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There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. (Equanimity is key but not the end goal)
There is no passion; there is serenity. (Detachment sets us free)
There is no chaos; there is harmony. (Darkness will consume us)
There is no death; there is the Force. (Fear leads us into darkness)
can you please do the philosophy of Shrek
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To me, the darkness described here is not darkness but ego. Light and dark is like yang and yin. They go together. Sometimes, even science shows “light” coming from “dark.”
Thank you. I love your videos. You actually inspired me to go and see The Joker. So thank you.
George Lucas made a big spiritual contribution in this world =) I wonder sometimes, what he thought and felt about this world, when he was thinking to create Star Wars... If all Star Wars Fans really take the wisodm of Yoda seriously, then the world would be a much more peaceful place.
There's more prequels footage than I would've expected going in. I was mostly... fine with it, albeit a tad disappointed, but that compounded immensely after #4 -- Darkness will consume us -- did not include Yoda's quote about his death. "“Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me; soon, night must fall.” Night must fall. All days end in night as all nights end in day; as with all manifestations of what the Taoists call yin and yang, light and dark imply and require each other, as do life and death, matter and emptiness, and so on. This demonstrates the peculiar failing of the Jedi -- their single-minded devotion to the light makes them ignore the reality of darkness inherent to our universe. Kreia, the most profoundly wise character in all of Star Wars, illustrates this in a way that no Jedi or Sith ever could. In short, play KOTOR 2 and never watch another Disney film ever again
@Kevin Walker I think that your belief that understanding Kreia's philosophy leads inevitably to hating or denouncing the Star Wars franchise isn't quite true. Rather, it illustrates the true nature of the Force and its overarching universe -- a conflict in which the dark side is always losing but never loses and the light is always winning but never wins. The Force is the best illustration of the Divine I've seen in fiction; it's all things, light and dark, good and evil, matter and space.
Surely, the Jedi and Sith have applicable wisdom for us. The Jedi through their stoic space-Buddhism and detachment, the SIth through their Nietzsche-esque devotion to evolution through conflict. But their universe is truly vicious and cyclical. This does not mean we cannot appreciate its place in fiction, or that no Force user could eventually rise above the Sith-Jedi dichotomy. Revan has that potential, though I assume Disney will squander it.
To illustrate my point, I turn your attention to our own brutal history. Think of Verdun, where 300,000 soldiers died in the First World War. Or the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where 200,000 or more civilians were vaporized or given radiation poisoning; the people closest to the blast were reduced to shadows on sidewalks. I assume you've played KOTOR 2. Think of Malachor V, the death of an entire planet in seconds, and the wound that left on the Exile -- it created a total absence of the Force, a person more lifeless than rock, more empty than space. The fictional universe containing that unspeakable horror is a reflection of our own.
The next section of this mammoth comment comes from an essay I've written about KOTOR II. Time is cyclical; again and again, countless lives are lost in the name of balance. Kreia seeks release, what certain Buddhists believe to be Nirvana - a total void, final release from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.
So then, in the caverns of Trayus Academy at the end of KOTOR II, in which Kreia once again dons the mask of Darth Traya, a struggle between void and existence are taking place. For should Kreia succeed in destroying the Force, in committing deicide, nothing would remain. People would not experience the Exile’s decision to abandon the Force en masse - people would not exist, nor would matter, nor space, nor light, nor darkness, nor anything. The Force is all atoms, all empty spaces, all people, all creatures, all rocks, all waves, all planets, all stars. Should Kreia succeed in defeating the Exile within Malachor V, should the Force indeed die, the Universe itself would collapse.
But to paraphrase the philosopher Alan Watts, what’s it like to die, to fall asleep and never wake up? This can only be answered with another mystery - what’s it like to wake up without ever having been asleep? That’s when you were born. Apply this to the death of the Force, the Tao, God, Brahman, whatever you want to call the central self of the Universe, and what will happen? All things will collapse. The bonds between cells within all bodies, everywhere, anywhere, anytime will fall apart. The planets and machines will dissolve into their requisite elements. Everything will return to void.
But it will be born again. The big bang will recur. The cycle will begin anew. For perpetual nonexistence is not an experience which can be had. For anything to be, the Force, the Tao, Brahman, God, the Self, will rise as a phoenix of experience from the ashes of the void. Malachor V will once again crush opposing fleets into dust and the Exile will once again feel hundreds of thousands of deaths at once, will once again turn away from the Force, will once again be outcast by the Jedi Order, will once again feel the Force, will once again confront Kreia in the Trayus Academy. And eventually, in one of many turns of Samsara, the wheel of existence, the Exile will understand who and what she is - an act of, a performance of, a manifestation of, the whole cosmos - and she will succeed, will stop her teacher from destroying the Universe.
This is what Kreia can teach us. We are the Force.
@Kevin Walker Thank you for taking the time to read & respond :)
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Thanks for making this!
Fanstatic video. Thank you
A video on Uncle Iroh would be a awesomeee
This is really a great video! I am watching again SW episodes (1977-2003) and it is quite true that what Lucas has put in the 'jedi philosophy' is the synthesis of those doctrines. I woul like to add that everyone has lights and shadows on his paths and (maybe) the 'dark side' of the Jedi doctrine is to push expectations too hard and in a not respecting way of everyone timing. So it is a long and winding road to practice this doctrine in everyday life and (as Lucas said) everyday you make choices and confront yourself between your 'good' and the 'bad' side.
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Star Wars for Spiritual Philosophy
This piece is just awesome!
What separate star wars from other science fiction is deep philosophy and the way every spectrum of human emotion represented.
The force is Brahmam from vedic Upanishad
Very well stated. Thank you
Your videos are very good and to the point always 🍀
The tenants are based from Hinduism. Buddhism came afterwards.. Detachment and dissolution of ones ego is the foundation talked about throughout the Bhagavad Gita. The concepts of meditation and yoga predate Buddhism contained in the Upanishads. The relationship between our existence and the Cosmos is mentioned as Purusha and Prakriti.
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Spectacular video 🙌🏼
Love all your videos but this is one of my favourites 👍👍👍👍👍
It is also Joseph Campbell as an advisor on the Starwars films that made it into what it is today! Not only George Lucas being a Buddhist! :)
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Great episode!
Thanks to your philosophical analysis of Star Wars films, I now see a deeper meaning in Star Wars and prequel films in particular. Prequels is really a tragic story of a man broken by fate: he was detached from his mother too early, leaving him emotionally scarred (attachment disorder) and underdeveloped, then when presented by prospect of losing another female figure in his life, that he has grown attached to, he tries to exert control over his fate, but fell into a manipulation trap by sinister people. Overall he never had real control over his life. A really tragic character. It's too bad Lucas completely failed as a filmmaker to give it proper treatment. Instead of a bombastic hodge podge mess that we got, it should have been straight, focused character drama, with better casting.