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For me “emotions” is ‘water’. For me reminiscent of Genesis 1.2, … the Spirit of God (wind) was hovering over the face of the waters (water) cf. 風水 (feng1 shui3) wind and water; Fengshui (which is not just geomancy)

Hooray for Mark

It’s for gathering of intelligence, to stay the popularity top dog.

I agree. E.g. 神 不 死 (shen2 bu4 si3) the soul never dies [from first line ch. 6] 天 長 地 久 (tian1 chang2 di4 jiu3) Heaven is eternal; earth is temporal. [first line ch. 7]

imo this is a very important distinction to make - these two say very different things.

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Exactly. 100%

Yes. I agree.

Yes. Intuition, inner tutor. My intuition, that is my soul speaking, it tells my two brain-halves what’s right.

Happy solstice to all.

He still visits the forum. You can read his old topics.

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Yes. In Laozi's time custom was to start with what's most important, and the DDJ imo starts with 4 chapters on "self-development".

The frontpages here are shocking to me, seems to me it's now all about the threat of war and the need to increase spending on arms. To be honest I am not coping well with it, so I have decided to limit the attention I give it.

Hello my friend CD, always nice to disagree with you.

For RC, Jesus definitely is not a magician and psychic powers is not what it’s about.

I think ‘magic’ thinks it can control, which imo is an illusion. My way (RC) is surrender to the divine.

Exactly. And so imo it is also for the ‘game of life’. That’s why Wuji (無極 the origin, undifferentiated state) goes to Taiji (太極 existence, the state of differentiation/Yin and Yang [also “black and white” ].

On what is this opinion based? Could you please give some concrete examples from actual chapters in the DDJ.

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Hi, welcome to the forum.

Welkom dubbele Jan.

Oh. I had not understood that. Then I’m out. That doesn’t interest me in the least. I am only interested in a ‘formal equivalence’ translation of the characters of the oldest script. Be well.

Yes, I agree. I think it belongs in Chapter 4.

Imo ch 42 is a collection of unrelated bits of text that were removed from other chapters. In Classical Chinese the context decides the meaning. Without context, nothing can be said about the meaning. Imo the big question really is, from which chapter was part 1 removed? The whole ch 42 (Henricks): 1. The Way gave birth to the One. 2. The One gave birth to the Two. 3. The Two gave birth to the Three. 4. And the Three gave birth to the ten thousand things. 5. The ten thousand things carry Yin on their backs and wrap their arms around Yang. 6. Through the blending of the qi they arrive at a state of harmony. 7. The things that are hated by the whole world 8. Are to be orphaned, widowed, and have no grain. 9. Yet kings and dukes take these as their names. 10. Thus with all things—some are increased by taking away; 11. While some are diminished by adding on. 12. Therefore, what other men teach, 13. will also consider and then teach to others. 14. Thus, "The strong and violent do not come to a natural end." 15. I will take this as the father of my studies.