Taoist Texts

oh about that...you see there is a certain kind of people who ask questions but do not listen to the answers and do not do what they are told to do. they are the smartest of all.

awww Cobie were not you paying attention in class again? https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/the-war-poverty-after-50-years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror https://thebulletin.org/2021/12/the-case-for-going-to-war-against-climate-change/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/24/un-chief-says-world-at-war-against-covid-19 and one war to rule them all https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/10/can-inequality-only-be-fixed-by-war-revolution-or-plague get with the program dear

there is a very easy way to answer this great question. just try doing it a couple of times and see if it works. let us know how it goes.

there is no UFOs. (hilariously) Just mass psychosis pervading the science and the government (which are the same cabal). 'the fog of war'. because we are at war.

and well you should not @old3bob! for the rest of us: this is not a matter of an opinion or agreeing. the fact of the night-mares being innate it is a fact attested by the patients themselves. all of their accounts start with 'i grew up a strange, unhappy, and sickly child, living in my head'. none of their accounts start with 'i grew up a joyful, calm, and popular child, a picture of health'. thats why the nightmares are innate. they happen to all troubled persons regardless of their spirituality. they are not even exacerbated by their spirituality. in fact you guys have it backwards: their spirituality is a symptom of their karmic innate issues, not the cause.

it is not dangerous per se. the 'night-mare' body-mind issues ppl develop in the course of any spiritual pursuit are innate. they would have developed regardless.

erm to learn what exactly?

https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/the-secrets-of-chinese-meditation.pdf page 175, the author describes his solo retreat in detail. if you decide to go to a foreign country the main difficulty is the language and culture barrier. in case you can cope with it this is a fabulous place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldova

I will gladly respond if you PM me Sir

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so he was unable to teach while in concentration. hmm...

i was making an analogy. the main fallacy in your essay is like the gorilla in the experiment http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com/gorilla_experiment.html the readers do not see the fallacy because it is too big to register on them. just like the gorilla.

to know the true first gotta know the false depends on what we want. what we really really want

a fine piece you wrote. despite this gorilla of a fallacy, still pleasant reading. thanks;)

unfortunately there are no other options. all these cultivation websites sell new-age verbiage in exchange for hard money. aimless folks wander in, pay for a couple of worthless seminars, move on, profit. thats the universal business model. basically they are online entertainers. some of them have a fanbase. all of them veil themselves as that said, this one https://ancientmasters.org/library/adam-mizner-scam tries to attract audience by attacking other entertainers in a chuckle-worthy pot-kettle huff. which, i concede, is mildly entertaining.

no. the testimonials are unverifiable so there is no 'observation'.

without yang, they both are just two faces of the same coin: 'stubborn emptiness'.

you may wanna start by asking yourself "how do i know my goal is a real thing" and "if it is, what good will come out of it eventually"

Probably Charles Luke omitted it and did not transl it. It is a part of the 16th chapter. https://comter.xoom.it/b/mingzhi/16.htm you can use AI or Google transl on it, they work quite well

Apparently there was no such thing as hinayana in the real buddhism. Apparently hinayana meaning 'early buddhism' is only used in the west. Jonathan Silk has argued that the term "Hinayana" was used to refer to whomever one wanted to criticize on any given occasion, and did not refer to any definite grouping of Buddhists.[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinayana

well i am not really free to do so because for me words actually have meaning and also i understand the historical developments but thank you very much for your kind permission.

not it can not. Because the exact words: 'The Buddha-nature' are not used there. Thats why the pure mind is not The Buddha-nature. And thats why the chinese buddhism which actually invented The Buddha-nature contradicts Theravada on this point. The absolute contradiction between a pure mind and The Buddha-nature is emphasized in the well known 6th patriarch's gatha. to sum it up, the pure mind is samsara. The buddha-nature is nirvana. Shen-hsiu presents the following verse which Hung-jen characterizes as incomplete in understanding. The body is the bodhi tree, The mind is like a clear mirror. At all times we must strive to polish it, And must not let the dust collect. *** 2) Hui-neng offers the following alternative verse: Bodhi originally has no tree, The mirror(-like mind) has no stand. Buddha-nature (emptiness/oneness) is always clean and pure; Where is there room for dust (to alight)? https://pages.uoregon.edu/munno/OregonCourses/REL444S05/HuinengVerse.htm

eh in my memory i dont even have what i had for breakfast good quote. indeed it does hint at the buddha nature. however strictly speaking the 'unborn' here is a place or a state - the nirvana, not the buddha nature which is a thing.

if only you would follow your incisive statement by a "because..." and a quote...but you did not...(sigh)

because the concept of Buddha nature was first invented in china a 1000 years after the the historic Buddha. It was not in, and is actually counter to Theravada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha-nature