Only when one runs out of profound things to align oneself with, can one take the middle way into the river valley. This is called the yun shu. There the gu shen can be found. This is called the finding of the gu shen.
Fuk Yu said “The Woo Woo path is steep.”
Ummm… I may have got wong… perhaps
Woo Woo who said “Fuk Yu it’s steep”
Either way take care and wear sensible shoos on your journey. Flat ones. The Chinese ones with non-slip souls.
(Edit: FTR: I’m not mocking, Erik. I like the dude. Sure, he swings from one extreme to the other but his thoughts and feelings are honest. There’s an innocent quality about that that I really like.)
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Oh great wizard of light, please show me the way. 
I would say that the yun shu requires some sacrifice of self, yes?
You say?
What does it look like? Put it in terms I would recognize. Maybe in an image.
Thank you oh great zootwiz. 
“please show me the way”
To be shown the way you must not know it, and to take the way you cannot go it.
“I would say that the yun shu requires some sacrifice of self, yes?”
That was actually a typo. I meant to say Yun’s shoes.
“What does it look like? Put it in terms I would recognize. Maybe in an image.”
To see the gu shen, do not look. To hear it, do not listen. To feel it, do not touch it.
Are you writing all this down because I’m only telling you once.
Basically, put anything you say about it into a paradox form and it wouldn’t hurt to put some predicates before the subjects too…like “mysterious is the gu shen” or “hasty is the impatient man”… stuff like that. And put it all in the form of a parable. Don’t just answer a question about it… go into this long drawn out story about a peasant and a stranger with a donkey, at the end of which you surprise your listeners with a twist and deliver the moral lesson.
In other words you’ve been tamed and domesticated. You’ve become a trendy hipster metrosexual.
I suppose you’re spot on that.
True happiness is an illusion but one can however find contentment by accepting
the world for what it is and only focusing on changing that which you can change
True happiness is found with-in…
Now, Buddha is often depicted as a drag queen, but that does not make him tamed and domesticated.
Buddha is often depicted wearing yellowish-goldish eyeshadow, but Adagio also wears goldish eyeshadow, and she is definitely the opposite of a hipster.
Hipsters are world loving, Adagio is world-hating.
Now, many new age “enlightenment gurus” are often faggy hipsters, but that doesn’t make enlightenment in of itself a guarantee of faggy and hipsterness. You just tend to get those type of people in it, and out of it. It is possible to be an enlightened Am, without turning into a faggy nihilist hipster, yes it is.
My little pony philosophy 101…
My little pony is not that borg like, for instance I don’t usually get along with other bronies and am usually banned from their boards.
At the end of the episode it was revealed that cloning Pinkie Pie’s was a bad idea.
You’re having another hallunicating episode. It’s time to take your meds…
Already did.
Great vid, Erik.
I wouldn’t call Taoism any thing like Buddhism by a long shot, at least not most schools of it. It can at times be closer to anarchism, depending on the text and school. Its paralleled to where you will eventually end up Joker once you realize you can drop the Nihilism play and still abide to a set of principles that don’t contradict your options, or sense of self and well being. Of anyone on this forum, you’ve been the closet to what you mock. I suppose it is not too surprising Erik beat you to it. Difference is, he choose a name early on, whereas you will only arrive through time wearing you down, with Catharsis taking hold.
Taoism can be quite paradoxical at times, it is a principled way of living in accord to nature, yet the technique and manifestation of such a attempt is not nature, it’s a play with mature, akin to a alchemy. Whereas before he was asserting a absurd end to things, now he has to verify and explain to himself what his actions are doing, things if they are sensical and likely to succeed, and if not, how? Instead of blindly asserting, Extroverted Sensing kicks in, and he modulates his actions to the changes and whims of the outside world.
Depending on the branch of Taoism, he doesn’t become a Nihilist in the traditional Prussian extreme, but rather is focused on adaptation and theory of mind. The predictive algorithms he will construct over time allows for a internalized sense of self to develop that is impossible under WTP philosophy.
I’m a little impressed he made this bold move, it’s unexpected, like a Napoleonic maneuver. I’m aware the synchrotist impulse will blend his older and newer beliefs together.
I will also point out Taoists are generally excellent martial artists and can very easily knock the shit out of a few dozen knuckleheads like Joker and Trixie. Taoism is a philosophy that evolved out of military writings and statecraft, it didn’t start off mystical, but highly pragmatic and aimed at contemplating survival. Sun Tzu was a Proto-Taoist, exemplifies the origins of the philosophy. Yes, it is neither masculine nor remind, certainly not macho or vain. It focuses attention on the actualities of survival.
Take Miyamotoo Mushima. Greatest Samurai of all time. He didn’t live a hypermasculine lifestyle, but rather is mistaken for it. He eventually gave up fighting to focus on art. One of the most harassed motherfuckers of all time, but it wasn’t intentional on his part. He eventually snapped out of the bullshit beliefs, the play of symbols and expectations, and dedicated himself to a careful study of what it was all about, and got rid of the rest.
I think you would like the three part series:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Trilogy
I rank Musashi among the top philosophers of all time, top twenty. A few Taoist make it into that list too. Zhuge Liang didn’t push the ideas of secuality too far, even broke some expectations of masculinity, riding around in his chariot with a fan, never lifting a finger in battle, but he still became deified as The Chinese War God after his death… one if the best military minds ever produced, anywhere, period. Far better thinker than any Prussian general or philosopher.
Martial artist versus sawed off shotgun…I win. Flawless victory.
Not if the martial artist has a throwing knife, rope dart or bow, or just old fashion sneaky surprise for that matter.
Its a rather easy task to hunt down someone who only passed basic training but nothing else, even with tour time spent in survival mode, your still going to be very easy to overtake, you don’t comprehend even the basics well.
A guy like Miyomoto Musashi wouldn’t even kill you, wouldn’t even offer the formality of a mutual contest, given how worthless and beneath him he would see you as. He just throw a rock at your nose, smack you upside the head with the flat of the sword, break your shotgun’s trigger, and continue on his way without missing a beat.
You read too much Japanese samurai anime. Lay off the weed bruh…
Too much violence in this world. Why would I fight Erik, he is an enemy of the moderns. This is a pull from Turd, to get us all to fight each other (he views us as his sworn enemy, Neitzscheans.)