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good guess. yes they are
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not only. them two basically mean the same thing
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各异。 gotta compare to this line 洞同天地，浑沌为朴，未造而成物，谓之太一。同出于一，所为各异 Huainanzi
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translators do not realize that this compound was used abnormally, in place of another ,normal one, which was normally used in this context in the contemporary lit. but they do not know the normal one. thats why they dont understand what the chapter says.
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i was trying to save myself some typing. but all right i will type it up. cant say no to Cobie 道可道，非常道。dao which can be spoken is not an eternal dao 名可名，非常名。a name which can be named is not an eternal name 无名天地之始；the Heaven-Earth begin in the Nameless 有名万物之母。the Namefull is the mother of all things 故常无欲，以观其妙；the eternal desirelessness is the marvel 常有欲，以观其徼。 the eternal desirefullness is the fringe 此两者，同出而异名，these two together produce all differently named things 同谓之玄。 together these two are called the Dark 玄之又玄，which is the double Dark 衆妙之门。the gate to the multi-marvelous
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sure. In fact Legge got it almost right. Note that he does not refer 異名 (different names) to 'these two' he refers different names to development. And the development of the two aspects of dao is all the things which develop out of dao, each of them getting a different name.
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thats a good guess, closer to the truth than the usual understanding. but still not quite it. what nobody understands in this chapter is that 異名 (different names), does not refer to 'these two' at all. Instead, 異名 (different names) refers to 万物 (all things).
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Would you, or others, please elaborate on this? of course i would. there is only one enlightenment. enlightenment means the human heart dies to the mortal world while the heavenly heart awakens to eternal life
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i know right? peeps always get at me like 'dude, you do not understand! its like apples and oranges' and i go come on, man,.. tomato tahmato... whats in a name man? seriously though yes the pics do look like modern qigong why then i am saying that these exercises are not at all like modern qigong? because like magical, man...the spirit...i think you get my drift
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glad you asked! The OP is a beginner so the both are fine really what were they before qigong was concocted in the commi china?
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there was no woman. you see things due to an inborn energy imbalance. quit doing energy work, drink valerian and digitalis for your heart, go have an ECG if you can, calm down your thoughts. Above all understand it is all in your head and you will be fine.
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it depends on what exactly that pretty woman said and what exactly happened to her afterwards
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these are two consecutive stages of the same alchemical method. practicer must go through di stage first to achieve the tian stage. and conversely without getting a bit of xian first, there can be no di. there is nor can be no effective yangsheng which is separate of alchemy.
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on my part i am certain you and him pinkie swear that!
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would that be the famous russian no touch death strike?
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bummer. their kongfu was stronger than the monks kongfu errr, what can possible constitute a direct evidence for 900 years?
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certainly not! you see guv sarcasm is passive aggressive. and given that i am anything but passive.... gee i donno they say genius skips a generation so ..say...37, 38...ish?
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oh teachers never are good or decent. thats cheap in more sense than one https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/02/shaolin-abbot-under-investigation-after-sex-and-claims-surface-online i also dont understand what this means. How long is a generation? 50, 25, 10, 3 years? Were those generations learning online as well? Will learning online from him make me a 36 generation shaolin master? If not, what will it make me? (thinking...thinking...must ...be ...silent...)
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not at all. opening channels is an impressive feat. thats why i am asking who your alchemy teacher is. if you dont mind sharing it of course. i studiously try not to be sarcastic because being a rhetorical dead-end it is not constructive
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this is thrilling! if for the sake of an argument a fake magus jumps a fake taoist, who would win and who would lose? Present company excepted of course. Faites vos jeux, messieurs dames! Popcorn!
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wow thats impressive! who is your alchemy teacher?
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Lost research: old daoist concept of cause and effect
Taoist Texts replied to S:C's topic in Daoist Discussion
Hi, sorry i have no recollection of that but you can try this https://www.jstor.org/stable/44160392 https://terebess.hu/english/yichihwen.html let me know if you have concrete questions -
Mizner and Mitchell - the bromance continues
Taoist Texts replied to Apech's topic in General Discussion
yes thats true. and my point wasthat visualization is not done by the mind only. there is another secret ingredient to it besides the mind. (and no it is not not the object, and not breath)
