Taoism and the Right Brain - Yogi Explains

Summary

August 14, 2026, 16 min

Taoism's I Ching trigrams as a picture of chunking, from complex detail up through yin and yang to the one. Covers chunking up and down in conversation (an NLP idea), patterns in nature, fractals and story, and why the right brain's unified view has no words, shown through Lao Tzu and his fabled meeting with Confucius.

In this video

Teaches

TaoismChunkingLeft and right brain

Discusses

Lao TzuSurrenderConfucius

Mentions

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)Tad JamesStory structureBlake SnyderMartial artsRoll-Up of ConsciousnessOM Japa in the ChakrasHakalau

Key moments

00:00A yogini's download to study the I Ching trigrams 00:45Trigrams as states of change: the one becomes two, then ten thousand 02:12Chunking up and chunking down, a term from NLP 03:07Tad James's example: chunked-down wife, chunked-up husband 05:05Taoists watching change in nature, and fractals 06:24Blake Snyder's ten core stories as a repeating pattern 07:40Masters in martial arts and yoga say it is very simple 09:05The right brain's chunked-up view of unity 09:23Lao Tzu: those who know the Tao do not speak 11:01Confucius's "more and better" vs Lao Tzu's letting go 13:13The fabled meeting: Confucius has met a dragon 14:05Let the left brain lean on the right brain