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The 3 dantien do correspond with the 3 basic chakras. Yes, the chakras in a female body rotate anti-clockwise, and in the male body, clockwise.

Indeed. Like the first line of the DDJ. If the Dao cannot be expressed, then “who would write a useless book”! https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55433-do-you-need-to-learn-chinese/?do=findComment&comment=1022024 https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55124-you-and-wu-in-chapter-one/?do=findComment&comment=1014660

It’s my own words, it’s what happened in my own life.

@salaam123 you might be on the mystical path (step 1 - connection with God from the head; step 2 - the abyss, connection gone; step 3 - connection with God from the whole body).

@Taoist Texts do you think this is true?

Some quotes of Jung mentioning the devil in this blog https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/02/02/lucifer-2/ Yes, very true in my experience.

@DaoForest A very impressive background indeed. Welcome to the forum. HSK = it’s the Chinese proficiency tests. Level 6 = being fluent.

“We three, we're all aloneLiving in a memoryMy echo, my shadow, and me” https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/931-what-are-you-listening-to/?do=findComment&comment=1026663

You posted it before (or very similar), but it’s worth putting here in a more prominent position. I repeat my previous reply: idiot_stimpy, “wise enough to play the fool"

Exactly.

Ime yin and yang both, equally disappear in total integration; it’s wuji again.

Ime integration of the shadow ends in ignition into star form; which is without separation again, wuji, the cycle restarts.

I agree. Yes. It’s the yin side. Yes, ime it’s the same thing.

Exactly. Yes. And willpower always fails as the undesirable behaviour comes from the shadow (which willpower is unaware of). Exactly.

Yes, wuji (no-thing-ness) brings forth taiji (i.e. yin and yang come into existence simultaneously). wuji 無極 wu2 ji2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuji_(philosophy) taiji 太極 tai4 ji2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_(philosophy) Yes, 中 氣 以 為 和 zhōng qì yǐ wéi hé - blending the two primordial essences, creates harmony. (Ch 42) I agree. But I better refer you to TT on this, as he knows a lot more about it. E.g. … [the goal of alchemy is] to join with the dao. in the process the yin is not shed, on the contrary it is gained …” https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55079-deleted/?do=findComment&comment=1021390

No.

The asking was perfectly alright by me. What I do not like is the quoting of a post that already was deleted.

Exactly, that’s what I thought. So I deleted my post as irrelevant.

And I expect people to have the courtesy to not quote what already had been deleted.

He looks very high spirited in his picture. So clearly he monitors his spirit levels.

Curiosity killed the cat. I said, impressive ignored calendars. lol, there’s nothing ticked off, is there? I hope now you all know that all my deleted posts are totally boring and can be forgotten about.

A great achievement. Great metaphor, imo “black slug” for Yin and “crossing the road” integration of Yin with Yang. I agree. I agree.

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Definitely. And I don’t really care what you look like; it’s actions that speak to me. E.g. I once deleted a post and you immediately offered to remove your quote of it. I appreciated that a lot (some don’t even remove the quote, even when I ask them to). So I think you are a very kind person.