TAOISM: Understand the True Power of "Nothing"

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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    Explore the concept of emptiness and its profound significance in our lives, as illustrated through pottery, a hermit's lifestyle, and ancient Chinese philosophy. This video delves into how embracing emptiness enhances our understanding of existence and our connection to the universe. Learn to appreciate the vital role of space in daily life and the creative force of nothingness. Join the journey to uncover the joys and truths hidden in the simplicity of emptiness, enhancing your perspective on life and the universe.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 552

  • @lionesss06
    @lionesss06 3 роки тому +100

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

  • @dustsky
    @dustsky 3 роки тому +126

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

    • @NapoleonCalland
      @NapoleonCalland 3 роки тому +6

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

    • @satnamo
      @satnamo 3 роки тому +1

      And little more wudang congfu+Taiji would be awesome.

    • @jasonreviews
      @jasonreviews 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @fzkxl9931
      @fzkxl9931 3 роки тому

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

  • @saiko_1
    @saiko_1 3 роки тому +102

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

    • @George-Thompson
      @George-Thompson  3 роки тому +3

      Really glad you enjoyed!

    • @Islaras
      @Islaras 3 роки тому

      So happy to discover it today!

  • @qihangli7485
    @qihangli7485 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @enzobaroni7456
    @enzobaroni7456 3 роки тому +31

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

    • @leslyvargas1940
      @leslyvargas1940 2 роки тому

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

  • @eloradanan1837
    @eloradanan1837 3 роки тому +32

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

    • @WeAreAllOneNature
      @WeAreAllOneNature 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @GavinSaintClair
    @GavinSaintClair 3 роки тому +37

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

  • @peterpaulparker
    @peterpaulparker 3 роки тому +14

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

    • @richwilliams1863
      @richwilliams1863 3 роки тому +1

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

    • @peterpaulparker
      @peterpaulparker 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @matdear8120
    @matdear8120 3 роки тому +24

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

  • @ThomSinger
    @ThomSinger 3 роки тому +15

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

  • @ruoshui8542
    @ruoshui8542 3 роки тому +40

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

    • @George-Thompson
      @George-Thompson  3 роки тому +1

      Very glad you enjoyed Sanfeng brother!! 💖

  • @gregmasseyify
    @gregmasseyify 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @kalebjohnson9183
    @kalebjohnson9183 3 роки тому +6

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

  • @mattcarlson8262
    @mattcarlson8262 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @timharrington4470
    @timharrington4470 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @djjazzydean
    @djjazzydean 3 роки тому +6

    The cave hermit is magnificent being

  • @jkooser0701
    @jkooser0701 3 роки тому +17

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

  • @satnamo
    @satnamo 3 роки тому +9

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

  • @authentickungfu7910
    @authentickungfu7910 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful work my friend.

  • @KARATEbyJesse
    @KARATEbyJesse 3 роки тому +49

    Excellent video! Subscribing 💪

    • @gyniest
      @gyniest 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @gyniest
      @gyniest 3 роки тому +1

      Valkommen!

    • @ryancross4481
      @ryancross4481 3 роки тому +2

      Great to see you here, Jesse Sensei. Hope you are well 🙏. OSU.
      Your friend from 🇺🇸,
      Ryan

    • @carlymcpeake9003
      @carlymcpeake9003 3 роки тому

      @@gyniest u8
      GHB to support you in advance for your time

  • @livinglifelazy
    @livinglifelazy 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @adamedison6831
    @adamedison6831 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @George-Thompson
    @George-Thompson  2 роки тому +10

    Thanks so much for watching! ☯道☯ If you want to get deeper into Daoism with me I invite you to join my 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.
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  • @elfyhanley
    @elfyhanley 3 роки тому +13

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

  • @jackchiang1470
    @jackchiang1470 3 роки тому +1

    Emptiness is the potentiality where all possibilities exist.

  • @aro9266
    @aro9266 3 роки тому +1

    Pleasure to come across this video, thank you !

  • @karimali8269
    @karimali8269 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @SpicyMcHaggis
    @SpicyMcHaggis 2 роки тому

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

  • @diywithsanya2806
    @diywithsanya2806 2 роки тому

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

  • @gregmasseyify
    @gregmasseyify 3 роки тому +3

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

    • @elsagrace3893
      @elsagrace3893 3 роки тому

      Are you saying that so that people like you?

    • @gregmasseyify
      @gregmasseyify 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @ErrolGetner
    @ErrolGetner 3 роки тому

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

  • @susydyson1750
    @susydyson1750 3 роки тому

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

  • @tubears711
    @tubears711 3 роки тому

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

  • @vlatkodr7102
    @vlatkodr7102 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @sethkeith8751
    @sethkeith8751 3 роки тому

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

  • @cardosoman
    @cardosoman 3 роки тому +1

    this video touched me in a special way, thanks george

  • @MissBlackMetal
    @MissBlackMetal 6 місяців тому

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

  • @omnihellascient7972
    @omnihellascient7972 3 роки тому

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

  • @caprimoon888
    @caprimoon888 3 роки тому

    So glad I found this channel , many thanks George. Loved the scenery as well as Brighton Pier !!!!

  • @M1sheyla
    @M1sheyla 3 роки тому

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

  • @chefstefanoleone
    @chefstefanoleone 3 роки тому

    Beautiful wisdom George . Travel gently

  • @danenigel007
    @danenigel007 3 роки тому

    George. I think this one is my favorite! Well done. Please carry on!

  • @Mr-.Facts.
    @Mr-.Facts. 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @henkknaap8781
    @henkknaap8781 3 роки тому

    What a gentle guide ! Thank you 🙏

  • @domm1341
    @domm1341 2 роки тому

    You are a great teacher! Very valuable insights. Thank you for taking the time to make this.

  • @mykaratejournal2120
    @mykaratejournal2120 3 роки тому

    So simple yet so profound 😇

  • @kavalkid1
    @kavalkid1 3 роки тому

    Love you so much, George!

  • @hereticsaint100
    @hereticsaint100 Рік тому

    I really like your approach to teaching this topic.
    Master Gu is such a calming presence. He is cheerful and pleasant, too -- someone who would be great to learn from.

    • @George-Thompson
      @George-Thompson  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for the support! 🫶 You can learn from Master Gu at www.taoistwellness.online 🙏

  • @pierref20
    @pierref20 3 роки тому

    thank you
    for sharing your beautiful road with us

  • @davidr-d9348
    @davidr-d9348 3 роки тому

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

  • @pushyamistry9084
    @pushyamistry9084 3 роки тому +1

    This is one of the best content I've ever consumed. Great job mate♥️

  • @deevievanvoorthuizen3462
    @deevievanvoorthuizen3462 3 роки тому

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

  • @doloresvangaal2248
    @doloresvangaal2248 3 роки тому +1

    Wow such a beautiful video. This needs more views. 🥰

  • @3340steve
    @3340steve 3 роки тому

    This is an important concept to understand. Thank you for posting this.

  • @brunoboaz7656
    @brunoboaz7656 3 роки тому +6

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

  • @ayomidharmasena3265
    @ayomidharmasena3265 3 роки тому

    Thank you! True & beautiful. ❤️🙏

  • @primitiverevival1914
    @primitiverevival1914 3 роки тому +1

    One of my favourite of your videos. I really hope one day our paths cross. You are a great inspiration for me. Thank you

  • @dondyablo1045
    @dondyablo1045 3 роки тому

    Sadhu. Glad i found this channel who shared the same emptiness ive got .thank you

  • @joeltbasham
    @joeltbasham 3 роки тому

    Absolutely beautiful video in meaning and visuals. Thank you friend!

  • @Bonobo3D
    @Bonobo3D 3 роки тому

    Beautiful video George, thank you for taking us on your travels, and sharing this wisdom about space and nothing.

  • @RichardIIfan
    @RichardIIfan 3 роки тому

    Thank you. Perspective is always good.

  • @thelouisjohnson
    @thelouisjohnson 3 роки тому +5

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

  • @katriinagrant9510
    @katriinagrant9510 6 місяців тому

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

  • @BR-gt4zk
    @BR-gt4zk 3 роки тому

    George you are amazing.... Lucky to be there ..I would like that too ...👍

  • @birgitbofarull4410
    @birgitbofarull4410 3 роки тому

    Best video Mr. Thompson! Thank you so much!

  • @andrewpollock4049
    @andrewpollock4049 3 роки тому +3

    Wonderful I feel that I've learned something special

  • @Astrology_Witch_DJ_Lifestyle
    @Astrology_Witch_DJ_Lifestyle 3 роки тому

    ✨⚛️ You Are A Beautiful man, I live in Exeter UK, just south of Bristol ✨😊✨
    ❤️ Thankyou for sharing this with us.. ✨

  • @LEP7cv
    @LEP7cv 3 роки тому

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

  • @everydogandhisman4294
    @everydogandhisman4294 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @ying-yangwingchunclub7230
    @ying-yangwingchunclub7230 3 роки тому

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

  • @bernardofitzpatrick5403
    @bernardofitzpatrick5403 3 роки тому +1

    I love what you do man - can't say much more. Just brilliant!

  • @TheAltruismActivist
    @TheAltruismActivist 3 роки тому

    One of the channels where I like the video right in the beginning just in case I forget at the end!

  • @mrbtb1234
    @mrbtb1234 3 роки тому +1

    Dude. From a man sitting alone in his kitchen down in Austin, Texas I have to tell you the quality of your videos and the way you are able to convey ideas and messages is incredible. I've been following you for some time now and as someone who had a mental breakdown over the idea of returning to nothing and not understanding what it meant this video hit home. You have an awesome gift my man, ill be cheering you on. Thank you!

    • @George-Thompson
      @George-Thompson  3 роки тому

      Thank you Brad, I appreciate you. Wishing you the best xx

  • @axelbubenzer6255
    @axelbubenzer6255 3 роки тому

    Fantastic video George keep them coming.

  • @jonab.5508
    @jonab.5508 3 роки тому

    Interesting, I like that you adress it not just to one group of believers and let place for scientists

  • @mw1327
    @mw1327 3 роки тому

    Beautiful! THANK YOU!

  • @Storm_.
    @Storm_. 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @adventuredogs8773
    @adventuredogs8773 3 роки тому

    Thanks so much George 🙏

  • @dans-designs
    @dans-designs 3 роки тому

    We all have faith, just different truths 🙏 Love your videos, keep them coming! x

  • @rubendacosta398
    @rubendacosta398 3 роки тому +4

    There realy is something, to nothing. Powerfull words George
    As inspiring and carismatic as you allways are :)

  • @herminator250
    @herminator250 3 роки тому

    This is beautiful and will done ! Thanks!

  • @2010hy
    @2010hy 3 роки тому

    Your videos are getting better and better. Please keep the pace slow and include as much of beautiful China as possible x

  • @aminearbouch4764
    @aminearbouch4764 6 місяців тому

    Yes yes yes, i love this video

  • @danielread5854
    @danielread5854 Рік тому

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

  • @DualLinguaFranca
    @DualLinguaFranca 3 роки тому

    Thank YOU.

  • @geoffreynolds5834
    @geoffreynolds5834 3 роки тому +1

    Emptiness is full ☯️

  • @amandathompson9513
    @amandathompson9513 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @sanjeevkulkarni6835
    @sanjeevkulkarni6835 3 роки тому

    Simply wonderful. Not sure whether you will respond but still you have made my day. I will watch this video many more times and come back to you again. Thank you !

  • @SteveRowan8foldpath
    @SteveRowan8foldpath 3 роки тому +1

    Death has always terrified me. Mainly as I feel I’ve wasted sections of my life, then worrying I will leave my children behind then. Just the fear of it all being over. But to hear you talking about something from nothing. It’s comforting in a way. That perhaps the end I’m so afraid of, Isn’t an end just the soil for another seed to grow, If that makes sense.

    • @resoundingsource6595
      @resoundingsource6595 3 роки тому +1

      really dig that last sentence :) I believe you're right! This personalize life (ego) stems from the soil of source - and we can never detach from that source..only grow (and even decay) into fuller awareness of IT IS (or isn't LOL). Enjoy the ride my friend!

    • @George-Thompson
      @George-Thompson  3 роки тому +1

      love this: "the soil for another seed to grow". well said 💖

  • @robinstone2670
    @robinstone2670 3 роки тому

    Thank you, really enjoyed this video.

  • @petermiddleton4164
    @petermiddleton4164 3 роки тому

    Wonderful video, thank you George.

  • @xstaceys1
    @xstaceys1 3 роки тому

    Beautifully done! Enjoyed it very much.

  • @tonkjon6296
    @tonkjon6296 3 роки тому

    Great Channel. Great way of divulge and explain the way.

  • @milife1390
    @milife1390 3 роки тому

    Been a Taoist for 6 years even tho i work in tech. Incredible video , keep up the good work

  • @caiosouza1346
    @caiosouza1346 3 роки тому +1

    So good! Thank you again Master Gu and George for spread this kind of knowledge with us! This video was something really special!

  • @vaishalivaidya7978
    @vaishalivaidya7978 3 роки тому

    I loved the way you communicated the message...

  • @larawright7685
    @larawright7685 3 роки тому

    Wonderful! Thank you 🙏🏻

  • @ad5472
    @ad5472 3 роки тому

    Excellent content. Thank you for providing such great perspectives on the complexities of being a human

  • @dominicotwood7772
    @dominicotwood7772 3 роки тому

    These videos have brought a better side to me specially my ASD.
    Keep it up buddy

  • @lutaayam
    @lutaayam 3 роки тому

    I feel like I'm watching the BBC. Quality stuff!!