Monk Yunrou
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2015
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week we talk to Monk Yunrou about modern Taoism
Taoist Monk Yunrou in as author, activist, and tai chi master, Yunrou (formerly known as Arthur Rosenfeld) has a lifelong relationship with Taoism. A 35-year master of Taoist arts, he was born in America and ordained a monk, by official leave, at the Pure Yang Temple in Guangzhou, China. Combining his overarching spiritual focus with a Yale literary education, the pursuit of natural history at the University of California and Cornell, he is an authority on the cultural, social, and spiritual dimensions of Eastern thinking for the Western world.
Yunrou contributes to such publications as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Parade, and has been profiled and cited in Newsweek, and other national magazines. His blog on The Huffington Post is frequently cited by other websites, including The Wall Street Journal, Fox Business News, and Reuters. He has appeared on national TV networks including Fox News, and interviewed on various podcasts and radio shows. From 2010 – 2013, Yunrou hosted the hit (56MM households tuned in) national public television show Longevity Tai Chi with Arthur Rosenfeld.
His latest book is called Yin: A Love Story
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In This Interview, Yunrou and I Discuss...
The One You Feed parable
The Tao Te Ching- Eric's favorite translation
How the Tao that can be spoken is not the real Tao
Seeing things in terms of binary opposites working harmoniously together.
What Taoism is
The differences between Taoist meditation and Buddhist meditation
Tai Chi and the deep integration to Taoism
The culture which the Tao Te Ching was written
Some of Eric's favorite sections from the Tao Te Ching
How there is no connection between money and happiness
The lack of connection we have to the modern world
History of Lao Tzu
The concept of stewardship
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| 0:00.0 | If we didn't believe that we were somehow more important, that we were not so special in this whole natural world. |
| 0:07.4 | The whole world would look different. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome to the One You Feed. |
| 0:18.8 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have, |
| 0:23.3 | quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:29.0 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:33.3 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:38.0 | We see what we don't have instead of what we do. |
| 0:40.9 | We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:44.3 | But it's not just about thinking. |
| 0:46.3 | Our actions matter. |
| 0:47.8 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. |
| 0:52.5 | This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 0:57.1 | how they feed their good wolf. |
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| 1:42.6 | Thanks for joining us. |
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