Comments by "Jackie Wu" (@jwu1950) on "TAOISM | Be Like Water" video.
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@lookupthereupinthetrees9860 You are 100% correct. A person's ideas are not the person which has a physical form, limitations, and aspirations. A person is a substance with limited life. An idea, a spirit, or a soul has no physical existence. It has no limited life, no aspersions, and no death, just like the data in our hard drive like you said. Lao Tzu identified these data as Yin Yang, just a bunch of zeros and ones, that's the effects caused by Dao, the One that cannot be named, the Alpha and the Omega
For example, before a carpenter set forth to gather the material for the table he wanted to construct, he, or she, must have the idea, the form, the concept of a table in his mind. This idea, form , or concept can be taught to others by words of mouth or written down in drawings and descriptions so if he kick the bucket, someone else can still construct the table he has in his mind. With all the plans, drafts, and models made of the Titanic, the ship can be reconstructed, and the idea of the Titanic can survive even though the ship is sunk. Lao Tzu had written a book, but great teachers like Confucius, Buddha, Socrates, and Jesus didn't even write a book. By words of mouth their ideas transformed the world thousands of years after their death. Their spirits are immortal. Mine too. And yours too. Ten thousand years later people may read our comments and become enlightened by us, by our spirits.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@AYVYN What's best ??? What ? You see, there is no good, better, or best the same way there is no bad, worse, and worst. There is only Yin and Yang, and they are one, interdependent on each other, inseperable from each other, and intertwined with each other. To give up control is to be pushed around by others. Taoism is about always in control, always focused and persistent. Create your own flow, and never be swapped away by the flow of others. Water always follow its own flow and never the flow of others. See ?
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@pureenergy4578 I never said anything about God, and Jesus too never said anything about God. You know why ? It is because Jesus is a man. He is not God. God, like gravity, is metaphysical, unobservable, and unknowable by humans. No human can know what God is or what gravity is. It's that simple.
Dao is also metaphysical, unobservable and unknowable by humans. That is what Lao Tzu said in the first sentence of his book : 道可道 非常道 Dao that can be described is not the eternal Dao. Dao is inevitable just as God, gravity, and death are inevitable. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. All matters including humans originates from Dao and will eventually return to Dao. Matters, not spirits, please do not be confused, okay ?
Be like water. Water creates its own flow and never follow the flow of others. The focus and persistence, let be but never let go, nature of water makes life possible and the inevitable become inevitable.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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@magentapurple8823 Quantum physics is a fairytale and a joke. Einstein and I do not believe in quantum physics. We believe in the law of cause and effects but not in luck, chance, or accidents.
Death is a continuous process and not a moment in time which is just an illusion. Every cell in our body died and replaced every 7 years. No part of you is you seven years ago. You are continuously dying. When your soul leave your physical body, you are you no more. Your soul at that point in time is totally disconnected with all energy sources on earth while your physical body returns to become earth : ashes to ashes, dust to dust. There is neither you in the earth nor you in space. It is just like a butterfly is neither an egg nor a caterpillar. Like a busted soap bubble is air and not a bubble any longer. It is just as ridiculous to say your soul is you as to say the air molecules which were once upon a time in a soap bubble are soap bubbles. It's that simple.
Look at it in a different angle. Jesus died 2,000 years ago but Jesus is alive today in spirit which is in his teachings recorded in history books called the Gospels. Jesus never returned from his death as a man unless you believe in fairytales, and his teachings is not Jesus, not a man. There is Jesus in history, but there is no Jesus today. See ? Similarly, my writings here is my spirit, my soul, but it is not me. My writings and the ideas it carries willl continue to live after my death, presumably indefinitely, aka eternally.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
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