Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Taoism." Let's get started. Our first word is skull, skull. Alan Watts said "You have all the necessary intelligence you need inside of your skull

<p><br></p> <p>Taoism Vocabulary Text</p> <p>Hi, this is AJ. Welcome to the vocabulary lesson for "Taoism." Let's get started.</p> <p>Our first word is skull, skull. Alan Watts said "You have all the necessary intelligence</p> <p>you need inside of your skullI." Now your skull is your head bone, right? It's the bone</p> <p>that protects your brain. We call that the skull, your skull. So again skull is simply head</p> <p>bone.</p> <p>Next is the word strain. He said "You can strain your head just like you can strain a</p> <p>muscle." To strain means to try very hard, to work very, very hard, a lot of effort.</p> <p>Sometimes it has the idea of working too hard, trying too hard, too much. Sometimes it</p> <p>has this idea of too much. So if you strain your muscle, you work your muscle too</p> <p>much. Maybe you're lifting something, it's a little too heavy. If you strain your mind,</p> <p>strain your brain, it means you're thinking too hard. So it's trying very, very hard. To</p> <p>strain, to strain, one more time, strain.</p> <p>Okay, our next word is contemplate, contemplate. Alan says you need to contemplate</p> <p>your problems. Don't think about them, don't strain. Just contemplate your problems.</p> <p>Now to contemplate means to calm your mind. It means to have a calm mind, calm</p> <p>brain, very relaxed. It's the opposite of straining your head, straining your mind.</p> <p>Straining is trying hard. Contemplating is relaxing and thinking calmly. So it's thinking</p> <p>very slowly, thinking very calmly, or maybe not thinking at all, just a calm quiet mind. So</p> <p>to contemplate means to make your mind calm, or to think very calmly and slowly, to</p> <p>contemplate. Contemplate a problem, think very calmly and slowly about the problem.</p> <p>Our next word is to visualize, to visualize. To visualize means to imagine. So he says</p> <p>imagine your question, visualize your question, then simply wait. So he's saying just,</p> <p>just have a question, your question about your problem. Just visualize it. Jus