Це відео не доступне.
Перепрошуємо.
Getting Older: How to Keep Energised like a Taoist Immortal | Tea Time Taoism
Вставка
- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Time moving too fast? This video shares the ancient Chinese philosophy that can help you become happy with getting older and slow down time. Be happy and full of energy well into your old age...
☯️🏔☯ Join Master Gu’s FREE 4-week Taoist Wellness Course
Learn meditation, Qi Gong and Tai Chi with Master Gu - Taoist Wisdom to help you Live Long and Live Well!:
Click to get access- completely free: ⏩⏩ www.taoistwell...
☯️📖☯️ Get my free "On the Way" newsletter: weekly ideas for balanced living
Ideas you can read in a few minutes to help you, and to help us collectively, find a more balanced way of being.
⏩⏩ Join over 25,000 readers: www.wayfinder....
🌎🌍🌏 LEARN IN COMMUNITY - join Wayfinders, free!
Wayfinders is a community uncovering wisdom for people and planet. I host free weekly Qi Gong and meditation sessions. There are also 15 community-run sessions a week - share your explorations with amazing people from around the world!
⏩⏩ Join the community: wayfinders.glo...
☯👂☯ Listen to the Way of Nature Podcast: Exploring Daoism, living well and sustainability with some of the most interesting minds in the world...
⏩⏩ anchor.fm/wayo...
☯🫁☯ Tap into the power of the breath: Breathe! Course
I aim to equip you with the ideas and practices to make your breath a powerful tool that helps you live life to the fullest!
⏩⏩ Click here to learn about the course: www.wayfinder....
☯道☯ Ancient wisdom for harmonious living: 6-week Daoism Course
In over 10 hours of deep philosophy, taiji and meditation, I offer ideas and practices to help bring Daoist wisdom into your everyday life.
⏩⏩ Click here to learn about the course: www.wayfinder....
☯💪🙏☯ Patreon
Support me and the team to make philosophy in nature films with impact. In return get great benefits, including my best pictures as your wallpaper 📸
⏩⏩ / georgethompson
☯ Or support with a one-off payment? Thank you!
paypal.me/geor...
☯ Tea Time Taoism Full Series
What is Taoism? or is it Daoism? The Yin Yang? The Tao? Wu-Wei? The Tao Te Ching? Who is Lao Tze? Taoism 101 with Master Gu from the heart of China: goo.gl/6d2GKE
☯ FOLLOW FOR PICTURES OF THE ACTION
Instagram: / george.thompson._
Facebook: / georgethompson.uk
Twitter: / georgethuk
☯ RECOMMENDED READING LIST
🔸Best Book for Beginners - Tao of Pooh: amzn.to/2ERXE3p
Benjamin Hoff delightfully explores Taoist principles with the help of Winnie the Pooh.
🔸Best Tao Te Ching - Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: amzn.to/2BPDaWy
Wayne Dyer applies the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching to modern lives. This book is transforming how I see myself and the world - it's a must-read.
🔸Supplementary Tao Te Ching - Tao Te Ching (Derek Lin): amzn.to/2GJ0Ivu
An accurate translation, getting you closer to Lao Tze's original meaning. Cross-reference with Wayne Dyer version.
🔸Zhuangzi: amzn.to/2tEvt2H
The second most famous Taoist text after TTC. Profound philosophy told through humorous stories.
🔸Further exploration - “Tao: the Watercourse Way”
World-famous philosopher, Alan Watts, explores Taoist concepts in his signature witty style.
🔸For personal growth - The Tao of Success: amzn.to/2EVCzoP
Derek Lin shows that being a Taoist doesn't mean becoming lazy. This book explores how to grow in harmony with the Tao. Highly recommended.
In Taoism there is a saying 道不言寿, which means: age should not be asked to a Taoist. So the tour guides in the scenery zone would ask guests to be careful not to ask Taoist practisers’ age.
It doesn’t indicate that a Taoist, having eyes, is not willing to see. Rather, it simply reflects a Taoist’s attitude to age, to life. Just like a plant, it never worry about age; it grows naturally. An authentic Taoist thinks he is together with the Dao- he lives permanently!
Interesting concepts. I studied 4 different forms of karate plus krav Maga and akido. I stopped when i was 52 because of age and my body felt beat up. Early internal disability forced me to take my pension and retire from my career that i loved. Well, things were modest but okay financially and i moved to the country tp try and heal. I fought a non stop battle with declining health which depressed me to no end. Two years ago i took up Taoism, combined with Tai Ch. My life turned around almost overnight. I remarried, am riding a 8 hundred pound motorcycle long distance and for the past 6 months my blood work shows complete health. Diabetes which is supposedly incurable is completely gone, blood pressure normal, all internal damage gone. Im physically stronger then ive ever been and feel great. Before i took up the Tao and Tai chi i was hoping i would just die. Well, all these changes took place snd now i love life and feel better then i did when i was in my mid 30s. Ill be 71 in a week, i live in the moment devote service to Vets in the Vets home, found the love of my life. And pursue my hobbies. I live very simply and do not buy things i dont need. Its been Magic. I have no regrets. I finnally have peace in my life. On a recent tape you mentioned a decision between kung fu and Tai Chi. I advised Tai Chi. Lao tsu 2500 years ago wrote the perfect recipe book for living. It lays a great foundation for life. A house can be beautiful but if its built on weak earth with a poor foundation it will crumble, sort of what happened to me. Your Master is 50 you are 23. Your master is young enough to be my son. I even for the first time recognized the existence of my soul, without anyone talking about it. Tai Chi will make you a better Martial artist if you decide to add other martial arts. Thats my history and every word of it is true. Ill be 71 in 2 weeks and time has reversed itself. I no longer fear the future. Stick with it.
John C. Wow john I'm 44 and just stopped boxing/muay thai as my body is a constant source of pain. Ive been considering tai chi as i have tried so many things, yoga pilates and all sorts...but seems like taiji works. Im in 👌👍
Warm and sincere congratulations on you two and many others who eventually realize how bad those violent moves or sports have been and how good Taoist style- slow motion, tranquil, harmonious- to our health!
Welcome to our program offered on line or on central China’s Wudang Mountains!
My surname 顾GU actually means TO TAKE CARE OF. It seems God has told me to be on the grand way to take care of human being’s health!
Wudang Taoist Wellness Academy where is your online course is there a link. Many thanks..you are so right 👍
Congratulations John C on your new way of life. Your story is very inspiring, Best Wishes
I'm glad you turned things around so effectively. You have Inspired me to take up tai chi as I turn 60.
I have to say I'm happier now in my 50s than I was in my 20s. I've become so much more centered and at peace from doing a decade of samatha-vipassana. You're lucky to have found a practice like this at your age. I did a little meditation in high school but there wasn't the resources back then that we have today. The internet has really opened up the wisdom traditions of Taoism and Buddhism to the West. And case in point your channel has inspired me to take up Tai Chi again and to read the Tao Te Ching. Thanks for sharing your experience in China with us!
“Water stays fresh when it’s moving”
Yes, which means you can drink your own piss
Munqith Alazzawi That line stood out to me too... said the stagnating 52 yo. ✌️
The highlight of it all... at least for me personally.
27
❤
I built my hut within where others live,
But there is no noise of carriages and horses.
You ask how this is possible:
When the heart is distant, solitude comes.
I pluck chrysanthemums by the eastern fence
And see the distant southern mountains.
The mountain air is fresh at dusk.
Flying birds return in flocks.
In these things there lies a great truth,
But when I try to express it, I cannot find the words.
T'ao Ch'ien
quote by E.B. White, which reads: I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
I know this lady who's a couple years away from being 80. She strikes me as incredibly vital and healthy compared to so many others her age. And maybe not coincidentally: she practises Qigong alot and selfless charity, humour, singing, she uses nature and hiking a lot. She prays and believes in God, and that an angel is looking out for her. Obviously she has tough days, and seeing her friends die, and feeling her body age, but everytime I meet her, she is full of positivity (yet honesty of the hardships), encouragement and words of wisdom that she's enthusiastic to share with me. She says she'd not wish to be 40 again, because she enjoys her age and the way she is now!
George, I'm 70 and I can't even remember what it was like to be twenty three, but I can tell you that the road of life seems to have got smoother, the further I have gone down it. It's a bit like Shakespeare's "Seven ages of man", and I play all day, walk, ride my push bike or motorcycle, garden, camp or what ever else takes my fancy, AFTER I get up every morning and thank whoever is responsible for the circumstances in which I find myself. I have never been a saint, or even particularly good, but when tempted to moan about something I only need to return to a state of mindfulness and acceptance for a few moments to realise how lucky I am.
i don't know you personally but, i am very proud of you .
Grandpa told me "Life begins at sixty." He lived to 98 and worked until the last three weeks of this life. I'm 59. I feel like I'm just at the dawn of life.
More people are successful in business in their fifties more than any other age. Some people retire at that age, but you are just getting "second breath" and a lot more inspiration coming together in your life, born from those previous decades of experience. Younger people may have more energy, but in your fifties you understand how things work better and how to get things done far more effectively. Many great authors only started to write at that age, drawing from the richness of far deeper experience, that they could never have had when they were younger. Many of us are far happier in our fifties because we know ourselves far better and can then make far more of life from being far more present in it.
I'm glad to hear this. I'm 43 and have been waiting for my life to start... I started thinking maybe it never will and I'll just start dying
processo em cima dele eu eu eu exige um processo em cima deles ação por danos morais em cima dessas palavras com m na hora que eles vêm fazendo contraquero um processo em cima deles e exigir a indenização por danos morais quer dizer que fazer contra mim eu e exige um processo em cima de todos eles e a indenização por danos morais que dá sendo criminosa escandalosa e eles
Quero o processo de cima dessas palavras eu quero um processo em cima dela dessas palavras é indenização eu exijo processo em cima dela dessas palavras e uma indenização por danos morais
Warren Buffet, 89, still going
I am a young senior citizen and am feeling that I am taking the first steps on a wonderful new adventure. I am a part of a couple of meditation groups and nearly all of us are seniors; I have many older brothers and sisters to walk this path with. Tai Chi is an important part of this next phase of spiritual exploration.
Martin, you sir just made my day..... thank you...!
Good for you. 👍 I wish i could find a group here in Missouri, i don't care what age they are. I just started on this path & i need a lot of training in every aspect.
While i studied several forms of martial arts in the past, they were hard on my body. Just 2 years ago, i took up Tai Chi which eventually led to Taoism. Ive thrown myself into it and now at 71 i feel better and stonger then in 25 years. Letting go of Judgement, ego, and anger work wonders for the health. I don't even believe that you have to deteriorate with age. Maybe I've become unrealistic but its a nice way to live life.
@Alexander Kalish What do you mean you learnt taoism, what practices do you do?
Are you still free of judgment, ego, and anger?
Master Gu’s reply To Ben Small y and all:
No! You said “ Taoism seems to make one lazy and in truth unresponsible” I would say: NO!
Daoism advocates无为而无不为or无为而治, which means by means of non-action one can realize action or to administrate by means of non-action.
Wuwei is a way, to realize is goal; wuwei is the state of mind, youwei is where to go; wuwei tells you to be relaxed, youwei tells you, with relaxation, to achieve what you want.
SO TAOISM DOES NOT MEAN TO LET PEOPLE BECOME LAZY. BUT, it makes you become active ,with relaxation , to achieve the goal!
Isn't another meaning of 無爲 appropriate action, like right action at the right time?
Yeah, You are right, I don't know why people nowadays think that Taoism teaches us to become lazy. I have been practicing wu wei from few months and yeah I can feel the life because every action is natural, pure and selfless. Wu wei teaches us to do the actions effortlessly, with ease in mind like a dude and of course when there is ease in mind the mind feels peace.
I'm 45 and feel just as you do 25... I practice qi gong everyday and live the Taoist method ...
I have a middle age crisis every 10 years, because I don't know how long I'm gonna live.
Sweet video. For some of us it's too late to think about getting old - I am already. 1 day when I was about 55 I happened to look at my leg and it was wrinkled, my father's leg, then I looked around and there was only an infinite sea of eternity. How, i wondered, can something get old when it's formed from eternity?" So many theories and answers to that, but you know, it really still doesn't make any sense. At about 68 I spent a short 10 days in a darkroom. This one wasn't profound or mystical but rather a life review "What an incredible life I have lived" But since then things have gotten a little boring and last week getting on a bus fm the terminal to the plane, a young guy offered me his seat. "Oh my God I'm old." There is a current of Ananda/bliss that runs through everything, but the body is a little tired. So maybe at 72 I'll hobble into another China adventure. Tai Chi and qi gong. I wonder if Master Gu teaches/works with the middle and upper tan tiens? Maybe I'll find out. Such are my musings on age. Shanti
Age with grace my man, embrace the inevitability of growing old with a sense of humor and gratitude!
Thats it -> > s e r e n e r e s i g n a t i o n !!
You are very mature to realize such a thing so young. It does get quicker as you go on! Thanks for sharing these concepts. I am almost double your age and can really use this!
George what a great thing your doing...its so inspiring. Im starting nei gong and taiji slowly myself now, (after years of smashing my body up with muay thai and boxing)partly due to seeing your little films. Your so lucky to be on the path so young. Enjoy every minute, its so precious and your enthusiasm is so uplifting! Much love from dorset ✊👌
The day I stop learning is the day I am old.
Be like water, carve your own grand canyon.
Yeah ! Be like the first light which has pierced the darkness !
I just turned 23 on the 17th of Feb. I simply look at it as 23 full rotations around the sun, nothing more. Age is a human concept.
Not exactly. There's biological death and decline. Humans are masters at fooling themselves about death.
@@steve5123456789 it's all in the mind. You don't have to age.
17th Feb is also my birthday ！
@@brujo_millonario You kinda do. When your balding and both your parents have died is a pretty good indicator.
@@steve5123456789 baldness doesn't really have to do with age, but with fear, tension and trying to control everything. Read "You can heal your life" by Louise Hay. Ask God (however you want to name Him) 9 times for eternal youth, every day. Mind you, the first few days nothing will happen, until your mind yields.
Good points to live by; just hilarious that a 23 year old thinks he’s getting “old” 🤣🤣🤣
This is such a great channel! Thanks! I've been falling in love with Chinese culture and tai chi over the last year. I want so much to visit China myself. I'm trying to figure out how to make it happen. Btw I'm 50 years old. I'm considering teaching English if I can. Your videos inspire me!
To follow the tao is to be at peace with yourself. Flow into all you do. Thank you for making this channel
This is tender teachings....Kids of the western world should be introduced and given the foundation from such wisdom of nature and the laws therein to assist them
Aging is Art of Life for humans. I feel body is my best friend to listen to, because its feed-back's expressions aware me about my unbalanced and disharmony responses in life. We are indeed what we eat and what we think, into vibes, then with the help of the body I can make out when my mind is telling lies to heartself. We are not the body or the mind, we are soul, and they are our tools for the life on earth, better to learn how to use them with love and respect. I also feel that we can choose our own death, and WU WEI is a great medium to do it. I prepare it to be in consciousness and meditation state. That will be my this life accomplishment, to learn it is a great joy and more I age more simplicity becomes a powerful key in the process. My gratitude for your meaningful and nice videos, so much of beautiful energies, you and Master Gu shared with us. You have done the best gift to you to start this initiation in that Tao's spirit family. Western education and its influence in the world is missing up our children and teenagers, it's not supporting families for different holistic approches .... My greetings from India
I am twice your age and resonated to this Philosophy almost in my 40's and still learning about it. So, it's refreshing that given your young age, you are seeking this way of life. I am enjoying this channel and I will share this to my teenage sons. Good luck and thank you!
I met that monk this year in Wudang mountains :)
By the time you reach your fifties, George, time seems pretty fast,But as they say time moves fast when your having fun, and likewise life is fun when time goes fast, Peace be upon us all.
Thank you so much George for sharing all these teachings with us. Greeting from Istanbul-Türkiye
At age sixty two, i can say we dont know everything yet. Life is long yet our time on this planet is short. Taoism is true. Naming and describing everything is unnecessary. Discard complexity and language that seeks to define. Love Life and observe silence on occasion.
Yea I realized long ago that who says the "happiest" times of your life will peak mid-twenties and then decline.
Being happy comes from how you interpret the world afterall.
I've realized much more and have a completely different mindset now.
Discussing these mostly abstract subject in my case atleast so it would be a loong discussion.
I was once like you in many ways, been a seeker since I can remember... Had bad anxiety and depression no pills could fix(I later learned a way though)...
I like the east, taught myself Japanese during nights for 5 years not paying a dime..
Very interested in martial arts since forever and I was a "Nak Muay -Farang" (Muay-thai warrior, Farang means I'm a foreigner that's all) - for around 5-7 years, later an instructor of MT some years, Was head of the Martial Arts dept. at Budo-Fitness, Scandinavias largest chain in its niche (martial arts, supplements, fitness, weights etc you name it).
Also trained Silat a couple of years which I loved.
At this time in life I'm however almost fully living on "the inside" - and the normal world is connected but not as fulfilling and helpful.
Started when I decided to learn Hypnotherapy and NLP. I did self-meditation when I was 15 so wasn't brand new territory, this brought me to learning about and how to harness all the different qualities ones of breath, observing it, following it, mimicking it alot before I could truly BE the breath.
Throw my conciousness into it. realizing my body was physical and not "me" getting to know it happened during martial arts,but learning that my thoughts wasn't me either, nor my feelings - if you reside in your breath still, you'll notice both thoughts and feelings arise in the mind, coming like waves - and wherever I put my conciousness/fokus there energy will feed, transform, alot of things.
So a thought arises, "what's the time?" fex. If I stay in my breath after awhile it goes away.. Then another appears. Same thing with feelings, which made alot of difference knowing I am not my feelings, nor thoughts - or even the mind where they come and go like waves.
Your true self is rather outside that, observing the mind as a cinema sortof where my senses combined with feelings or thoughts creates a projection.
As you progress the thoughts and feelings lessen, the waves come less and are more tranquil.
After understanding we constantly define ourselves always with something, I'm a thaiboxer, I see a car, etc endless examples - but I know I am not the same as what's "out there" in the physical world.
Which were constantly labeling our identity falsely as being I. Using our intellect which is like a tool we dissect everything with into pieces, the result we see as truth and identifies as - again falsely.
Take away whatever is me + thing, at first I thought then I am the mind but as said it's just the cinema screen our results after dissection shows while I watch and think to be.
After alot of this thinking, finally I understood and embraced fully that the body feelings and thoughts are physical in nature unlike the true me being..metaphysical, beyond that.
The mind, and its residents thought and feeling is also physical - even if I can't see it I knew it while simultaneously also then knowing only I, me, the true self - is not physical, conciousness (not as in being awake).
I no longer lived by reacting to feelings or thoughts of people, things, myself etc - but observing them neutrally from the outside of it all and then decided if and how to act using intelligence.
Gone was bad moods, anger, jelaousy, envy, depression, etc since I chose not to go to those when popping up.
That I could easily be as or more happy in a rundown shed alone in the forest as in Belize on a yacht I owned surrounded by "happy times" - that I without learning this and how to put my will with the intellect could make any outwards situation wonderful, if I was so on the inside.
Then began my spiritual journey for real - as I was getting answers I knew were true, no longer identifying myself constantly with some subject from outside, reacting no more to feelings as I knew they' were not a product from me.
Actually what was "me", from the personality to clothing taste are all a product of past experience in your very much physical memory, not born with but created over time.
I then learned to silence my ego which was mind-blowing.
Everything needed Two pieces to function. Duality. Subsequently I began seeing it everywhere.
Hot, cold - without hot how can cold be cold? It would just be what is rather.
Positivity/negativity, everything needed two. And when I picked one I identified it with the "me".
Alone everything was seemingly nothing then I understood esoteric sayings like what we see is an illusion, I couldn't agree more.
So who am I, watching "me" reacting to feelings and thoughts?
I had to silence the me which only saw the dualistic view. The ego.
I learned and managed it eventually after an "aha" epiphany while reading Guatamas texts, some passage in the kanona, the Pâli I think it was so long ago.
Haha I slipped up there, announcing it would be alot text before and now I've written all this probably very confusing stuff. ^_^
So I'll stop myself now and come back either to edit, add more or delete :D
Appologies for this messy WOT again.
Stay true and good, belief is crucial - faith is not. Believers of faith have a choice though; to follow or be led.
So be your own master whether religious or not. ;)
Hails from a young descendant of pagans; a Swede at the age of 38. :P
(See what I did there, identified myself as four different things at once! While really knowing I'm neither.)
PS, It's abit like time & space. One cannot exist without the other and time we define only by having memory - if you had no memory you would not understand, feel or notice any past, present and future only the now which is eternal.
Appologies if I'm too incoherent - arriving as I am, where I am now took alot of time and effort.
I probably should refrain from trying to explain more, when it gets to the metaphysical no physical words can describe it afterall, only make endless insufficient metaphores, analogies and such.
I wish you the best on your journey, know atleast that if you like me was born with this feeling there's something more than we see and are told, a gnawing underlying feeling that doesn't fade - makes you a true seeker.
Buddhist zen & dzogzen monks, Rinpoches & llamas, Yogis all know what this means and will do their best to help and guide if you ever lose yourself along the way. Meeting is best, but books are far from dead ends and meaningless.
Seek truth, gather knowledge and experience then if the Nornes knots are tied right all unfolds as it should - its path is sometimes long sometimes short, this is determined by you but impossible to foresee and plan so better to learn to flow with the stream.
Learning how to access flowstate can be an incredible help along the way also.
And another WOT came out before realizing it was happening, sorry it's some weird thing I've always had, put a pen or a keyb in my hands and they just start and keep on going,, wrote 4-500 long handwritten novels and such from as long back I can remember..
(⌒▽⌒)
*Enforcing override, press send now before another flood comes*
23? I will be 60 come November, but to tell the truth I feel 25 inside. But 23 is like.... so young, you got your whole life ahead of you. It might not feel that way, but trust me :)
23....ja!!, My friend I'm 43... Believe me, life has lots of things for you still..Keep your self in this clean mentality.
How fortunate you are to be following the good path of " Dao " in such a young age. Had I known it earlier I wouldn't have made so many mistakes while on my 20s. I'm facing 40 now and it's quite scary. I feel more balanced now though. I like your videos very much by the way. Good luck and. .. Happy Birthday! !
I particularly like the part about weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.
I am 5 years late to this video, but i really want to say, thank you, keep making great content.
I'm 57 and I haven't grown up yet! .... Love your videos, keep it up ☺️
That was interesting. I haven't had a watch for countless years, nor do i have a clock in my home, i just look in the sky & seasons are revealed in Trees, if need be there is always a computer. Many folk are saying time is speeding up, no time to do what they want to do. I no longer worry about time thank goodness.... Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Much Love
i know. i was never really anxious about ageing and the passage of life. but now, at 57 i feel truly relaxed about the finite span of life. i feel satisfied that eventually, i acquired what really mattered to me. understanding the nature of existence and life was more fulfilling than the othe r pursuits like job and education. now i feel equipped to deal with this wheel of life...this time or the next. taking pleasure in watching the change of seasons, and all beautiful elements in the world around, making little excursions into the world of egotistic desires, but always coming back home quickly, it is all going to be okay
man, we need more videos like this! Great content! Love it!
Thanks again for a wonderful sharing...It's my 70th year in March '24... I could be in much better shape! I was swimming an average of >20 miles a month until Covid drove me into a sedentary mode that added many Lbs. to my bod...
The Taoist practices that are shared here are a tried & true way to improve anyone's well being. Now, I just need my gumption to rise to the occasion and get back to serious practice; taking it step by step as part of the whole...
Thanks for sharing, Patrick! Well done on your practice 🙏
"Focusing on what you don't want to do is a pointless and exhausting waste of energy. Instead focus on what you do want, and gently move towards it." very powerful man, I'm such a victim of always getting stuck on what to do and this really hits me
Your such a breath of fresh air ❤️
Hello George! Thank you for this video.
I'm 30 until december and I've been practising Yoga and then QiGong for the last 7 years.
At the moment I look, feel and move younger than all my friends (with my same age or even youngers).
Like you say: the more we use our bodies, more energy we can get and healthier we become.
I hope you are well, greatings from Argentina.
Literally twice your age and still eager to learn, thanks George
Yes...Tai chi....and Qigong!
hi George - I love you so much - young and wise beyond your years - you remind me of my grandson/ Much love to you and Master Gu. x
It seems we'll all go through this part of our journey. A transitioning phase when our youth slowly fades. I'm there rn 37. It's tough
Love it;... reminiscent of ‘go with the flow’ or the catholic maxim of ‘ what’s meant for you won’t pass you by’
Thanks to Master Gu and yourself..your apparent contentment is infectious...amazing☘️
I absolutely love your videos dude they’re awesome... Watching them has actually got me studying and researching more in the Taoism and practicing their ways
I know why life goes by so quickly. It’s because time flies when your having fun. 😀
i notice this was in 2018. you could comfortably travel to china and meet the master in very same surroundings where the ancient taoists practiced. i too plan to spend more time in the himalayan foothills, of my own country. the serenity of the mountains is peerless. they speak to you. the trees, the mountains and the streams actually speak out these thoughts.....i hope the master is doing well in these not so comfortable times in china
Daoism is also connected to Chinese medicine that can extend life and vitality, like tonic herbs like Reishi, He Shou Wu, Jiaogulan. I love tea too of course.
I'm your age ... And I too had a question about who we are and what should be one's purpose in life. Presently, I'm at peace, looking and being mesmerized by the wonders and beauty of life.
What I found about life matches a lot with your perspective on it :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I love watching your videos and you really helped me and enlightened me at a time in my life that was so bad... I thankyou for it man and I wish one day to meet you and talk about Taosim...
I really liked listening to you, you make a lot of sense. Worrying about your hair is about the ego isn't it...... Don't worry you look great and have a nice smile. Thanks for making this 50 year old feel like its not quite the end yet!!
treat each day as something special theres a whole anime about this idea, nichijou
I love you George! I aspire to be like you and move out of country and live in Asia for awhile. ❤️
Go, and do.
“ANYONE WHO STOPS LEARNING IS OLD, WHETHER AT TWENTY OR EIGHTY.” -HENRY FORD
I am more motivated to exercise after watching this video! #fabulous advice
Thank you, George and Master Gu! Your lessons are inspiring and help me to apply the Tao to my own living.
This was one of your best videos so far. Much wisdom in your words and those of Master Gu. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing timeless Taoist wisdom with us on this unique channel. You’re good at communicating the principles of the Tao and Master Gu is very lovable, I’ve really enjoyed the content!
I simply cannot say the amount that Tai Chi has given to me, in many ways, different aspects. It changes you. I studied Wing Chung Kuen Yuen Kay style. In my Sun 73 form of Tai Chi I get this sense of the root of all Kung-Fu styles. I train out the combat side as well....I was talking to a Karate Sensei, and he thinks martial arts need be hard, and physically strong to work. When he would punch with a strong karate stance, I could always step faster, absorb, and redirect before he could change posture. I have a 1st Degree Black belt in Free-Style TaeKwondo, and Tai Chi shows me how much wasted energy I've spent training that. Tai Chi is always Flowing, nNon ridgid, Strong. I think Tai Chi does bring out different aspects that fit us individually, and what we need to work on in all life.
Running water never grows stale you just gotta keep on flowing
Beautiful walk. And your hair looks great 👍.
Reminds me of a Hermetic saying, 'beware angles, move in arcs' with more talk about vectors and circles and shapes, as analogous to life's various levels of direction
Inspiring video, thank you George 🙏
These episodes are so chill and yet so thought provoking. You really done a good job of sharing Taoism with us!
"secret of life is its quite fun" haha :))
Just came across this great video only today even though it was created 3 years ago.
Thank you for creating these type of wonderful videos. Thank you for your time and effort 😊 and of course the meaningful amazing messages that you are spreading in social media 👍
Loved this, thank you!
Tai Chi is a gift.
Keep up the great work, George! I appreciate your contribution to the betterment of humanity.
Your style looks good in this one. Cheers.
Many of us defy the western image of ‘old’. I have several friends who run 200-mile+ ultras in their 60s. At 61 I still hop out of bed ready to live.
Mornin George....Keep movin Bro!!....and I think for People like you....OUR planet is better, when you take part in giving LIFE to lil Humans....I hope ONE day you find a good Woman and share that special love of co creation..if its in 🌟s!. thanks for the video...
The more I learn about Taoism and Buddhism, the more I remember some of the teachings of Jesus and how similar they are!
The craziest part to me is none of them wanted a religion around them.
@@timdoescrypto6708 Yeah, I think I could see that too. And what happened? Religion. Lol
Jesus traveled to Asia.
George, thank you for your philosophical insights. Taoism has many ideas that are pertinent for our burgeoning world. As you observed when you turned 23, time moves rapidly. Wait until you are 70. Then, I'm certain that you will probably say that time is flying by ... 👍😊☕️🍩😎🌹
The 🌹 Beauty of the 🌊flow 🙌~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Great video. If you want to enjoy the benefits of taoism you have to stop sucking down enormous quantities of animal products and center your diet around rice, oats, beans, potatoes, vegetables, fruit. And drink water.
I love your channel🌞
Always exelent!! 👌🌺🌺
I like very much you vídeos!!
Thanks a lot!! 😊💐💐🎉
Time moves really quickly when your older i am 74 and its going like hell now
🤞💰💰💰💰💰💰👍🏼❣️
Yes. Missed opportunities and lost my hope for a future that I would like. Thinking back at these times with a frown
MY NEW FOUND FRIEND; EMCOMPESS WITH WISDOM OF THE EAST !!!! I LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU, I REFUSE TO GROW OLD, BUT WISE, THE DAY; WHEN ONE'S INNER CHILD DIES, IT IS THEN ONE TRULY GROWS OLD !!! MY THESRT FOR KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND GRATITUDE, KEEPS MY SPIRIT FOREVER YOUNG, IN WHICH I SHAER IT ALL WITH MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER !!! WHO IS TRULY AN OLD SOUL !!! WHICH I AM CONSTANTLY LEARNING FROM !!!💖💖 💖💖💖
💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖YOU MY BROTHER GEORGE !!
Getting older is inevitable
Aging is optional
One’s Beliefs and the behavior,
That stems from those beliefs
Is largely under one’s control
How we get older
Is dependent on, one’s attitude
Not one’s genes!
Embrace one’s age, getting older is to increase one’s value
And competence
As we move through time!
Embrace life with passion and gratitude.
Love. Light. Wisdom
CChris Rodrigues
July 6th, 2017
Through working with the clay to make a cup, a bowl, a plate I become more centered in my being.
Always something interesting to discover 🧐
Thank you George for you very well explained and insightful videos, I really appreciate them. And also thanks to Master Gu for your wisdom. x
Happy birthday George 🎉 Live long and prosper.
Interesting topic. I'm having these realisation moments as well from time to time. I know age is just a number, but when I say it out loud it can creep on me (I'm turning 37 in a few months).
In my Kung Fu training I'm starting to give in on physical flexibility. It sometimes worries me when I realise that this will only get worse over time. But luckily my Kung Fu also teaches me mental flexibility. Listen to your body and adjust goals where needed. And life here and now.
Another fact is that I need more days to recover from an evening drinking beers with friends (and I'm still learning this the hard way) 😁
Time is moving forward and we're traveling along.
Thankyou
So.simple.to.live in complete Harmony.and surrender.to the truth
Great stuff thanks
Thank you george....you chanell is great......job well done
I wish I could have had the experence you are having and your age......You are very wise for doing this ....keep up the good work
Another great video, George. This really resonated with me, especially the principle of 'be like water.' Love that.
Wow, honestly your videos are very refreshing. Thank you for this 🙏📿
The passage of time doesn't change, only our natural perception. To a 4 year old a year is a long time because we compare it to our whole life: 1 year is 1/4th of our life. To a 12 year old it is 1/12th of our life. By the time we are 40 it is 1/40th of our life and time seems to be moving quicker. It's all relative and a matter of perception.