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imo yes. "weiqi" 衛 氣(wei4 qi4) guard qi; your protective shield Eventually one can learn to take the energy of the attacker to use as one’s defence, but that’s a bit advanced level. So yes I agree with you, don’t exhaust your energies with counterattacks; use the protective shield, it works.

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

Thank you , that made my day.

I don’t think the “universe and everything in it is all in my head and thoughts I am thinking”, , not at all. I think the “universe and everything in it” is real. It’s imo the philosophising about it that’s not-real, “Everyone has their own imagination”. I just believe in God, total panacea. Love that bit. Same here.

In Mahapralaya the ‘void’ is total darkness; in Daoism the ‘void’ is total light (無極 wu2 ji2) Void is void. No one knows what it is like. Everyone has their own imagination.

The ocean is vast because it admits all rivers. (Chinese idiom) Meaning: The wise man listens to all sides. ~~~ 海 纳 百 川 (hai3 na4 bai3 chuan1) sea admits 100 rivers 有 容 乃 大 (you3 rong2 nai3 da4) is allowing therefore big

This is the same in RC. RC is dual. Humans are distinct from God.

"Becoming a Buddha is like ... You discover yourself, you don't get rid of yourself.” (Yongey Mingyour Rinpoche - From Confusion to Clarity) https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55590-is-buddhism-a-complete-path/?do=findComment&comment=1025834

“ There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks there were not that unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, you could not know an escape here from the born, become, made, and conditioned. But because there is an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned, therefore you do know an escape from the born, become, made, and conditioned. “ (Khuddaka Nikāya - The Minor Texts; The Udana - Inspired Utterances of The Buddha; 73. Udāna 8.3: The Third Discourse about Nibbāna; Translated from the Pali by Ānandajoti Bhikkhu).

This thread might be of interest:

All cultures spin elaborate fantasies around their core belief. Systems in isolation become more elaborate and complex. Exchange of ideas strips down again to the core basic principles.

Nobody knows anything, because it is unknowable. Remember, “take responsibility”; believe whatever you deep inside actually believe.

It means the 5 aggregates are not-the self, so there is a self.

Brilliant, imo that’s the key!

I believe in God, it completely frees me of any need to understand.

Yes, there’s no point in that. Good you managed to pull yourself out of it. I think that shows a lot of control over your own mind. I always belief in doing anything at my own pace, within keeping myself comfortable.

Don’t let your eyes go glassy or you’ll find yourself in a lunatic asylum before you know it. (Bertie Wooster)

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In my experience, with a narcissist as a mother - children dare not disagree. These posts of yours, to me they come over as very inhumane. I find your posts too unsettling to read any further.

Meaning depends on context: English dictionary: ‘emptiness’ - the state of containing nothing ‘form’ - the visible shape of something Using English definitions the saying makes no sense. Buddhism: ‘emptiness’ (sunyata) - impermanence and interdependence of all phenomena. ‘form’ - things of the physical world Using the Buddhist definitions the saying seems almost superfluous to mention, obviously the case.

Yes curious. I had wondered before about the character 萬 (wan4) the myriad [as in ‘the 1, 2, 3, the myriad’ DDJ 42]. The glyph origin is ‘scorpion’ and it also had the meaning of “religious dance; sorcery”. 萬 Oracle bone script: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%90%AC

imo “she” has NPD. This to me sounds like narcissistic manipulation (‘You made me do it’).

Yes. Yes, totally, that’s my experience too. In my experience, I had to become less ambitious on both levels in order to be able to integrate.

Yes. In my experience, integrating different systems leads to simplification. Only the very core will be the same.

I can be in my dark room, my mind, with my eyes open. It’s not about eyes being open or closed. It’s about where I put my awareness (inside or outside). For me the most important thing is to distinguish between what’s ‘inside’ (my internal world, my mind) and what’s ‘outside’ (the external world, reality). The internal is generated by my mind; the external is real, not generated by my mind.