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@Nungali I moved my post as I do not find it suitable for the open forum. Please be so kind as to remove your quotes of it in this thread. Please comment at it’s new place.

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imo ‘water’ and ‘wind’ are the phases to the Light, e.g. 陰陽 (yin1 yang2) water and wind/fire; fengshui 風水 (feng1 shui3) wind and water; ὕδατος καὶ πνεύματος water and wind/spirit https://biblehub.com/text/john/3-5.htm wind/spirit and water https://biblehub.com/text/genesis/1-2.htm [I cannot read the Hebrew]

sure, it’s a ‘simple’ car.

@Mark Foote thanks for the likes for my posts above (the wuwei cat feels a bit left out ). I agree with that bit; it’s clear from your posts, you think a lot. As for the rest … it’s way beyond me.

Yes, (e.g. in DDJ ch. 3) 虛心 (xu1 xin1) I empty my mind of all unwanted contents. Yes, my Soul takes control.

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Hi. Welcome to the forum.

Why do you read? it is possible he already has/knows what you are trying to find in books.

it’s called wuwei

imo enlightenment is the moment you stop listening to others and start listening to yourself.

imo they add stuff when they don’t understand the original and start philosophising about it.

imo there should only be six. As that’s the way Laozi is depicted when leaving on the water buffalo.

spoken as a true solicitor