Episode 86, Taoism (Part IV - Further Analysis and Discussion)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
There was once a wise farmer named Oliver who, enjoying the evening's sun at the end of a summer's day, watched on as one of his prized horses escaped from his farm. That evening, having heard the news, Jack and Andrew came to Oliver's farm to express their sympathies. Oliver turned to his neighbours upon their arrival and said, "maybe."
The next day the horse returned, but brought with it six wild horses. Jack and Andrew, seeing the horses from their homes, ran to Oliver's exclaiming his good fortune. Olly turned to the men and said, "maybe."
The following day, Oliver tried to saddle and ride one of the wild horses. He was thrown off the horse's back and broke his leg. Jack and Andrew came to offer their condolences for the misfortune. Sat upright in his bed, without a wince, Oliver spoke clearly to the men once more, "maybe."
The day after that, conscription officers came to the village to recruit soldiers for the army, but because of his broken leg, Oliver was rejected.
Relieved, Jack and Andrew came to Oliver to proclaim how fortunately everything had turned out. Olly turned to them and answered, "maybe."
Contents
Part I. The Life of Lao Tzu
Part II. The Tao Te Ching
Part III. Practices
Part IV. Further Analysis and Discussion
Links
Tao Te Ching (Penguin)
Lao Tzu (Stanford Encyclopedia)
Taoism (Stanford Encylopedia)
The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet, Benjamin Hoff
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Pan |
| 0:00.9 | Pan |
| 0:02.0 | Psygast |
| 0:04.1 | Part four |
| 0:13.6 | Further analyses and |
| 0:16.2 | Dithgowism |
| 0:19.0 | Woo-Way, baby So do we like Taoism? Can we get on board with Taoism? |
| 0:26.0 | Should we all retreat to the hills, start our own laboratories and try and live forever? |
| 0:31.3 | Andrew, can you, are you on the next plane to China? Sure. |
| 0:38.2 | I guess I have an interesting thing with Taoism, which is, I expect with a lot of people in the West is that my first encounter was kind of through listening to people like Alan Watts, where, and I don't know if any listeners out there, I'm sure |
| 0:54.8 | plenty of you have, if you ever listened to his lectures on, on Taoism, is that he's such a smooth |
| 1:00.4 | talker. And he's got a sexy voice. Yeah, he's a, he's like very charismatic. Unlike, uh, me, |
| 1:07.7 | he never summals over his words. The way he talks about Taoism, the first time I |
| 1:12.3 | listened to one of his hour-long lectures on it, I was like, wow, that is awesome. That is, |
| 1:18.7 | that is really is the coolest thing. And because I think there is an element to it that is so |
| 1:24.8 | appealing. And why? |
| 1:27.7 | Well, because I think ultimately that sense of, I kind of mentioned this term before when |
| 1:34.0 | we were talking about the Dow of this awe and wonder it brings to the universe, that there |
| 1:38.1 | is this sense that if you just allow things to happen, that things will kind of work out. |
| 1:44.6 | And while the more skeptical part of me is always like, no, that isn't true. |
| 1:49.7 | There is something nice about that as an initial sort of way into it. |
| 1:54.9 | I guess the other thing that instantly stood out to me was this idea of Wuwei, |
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