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含德之厚者 One who embraces the fullness of virtue 比於赤子 May be compared to a newborn babe. (DDJ Ch 55) It's very modest of you to depict yourself as so much older; while seeing us as virtuous infants - thank you.

definitely overthinking it

Hi JavToo. Welcome to the forum.

psst!, don’t tell anyone

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Maybe. Idk. Opinion seems divided. A quick look online: - “the number of Chinese casualties is estimated to be in the millions, not tens of millions” - “… recent Western scholarship has begun to reassess its previous view of him as a barbarian warlord.”

I don’t teach because I know, that would be boring; I teach because I don’t know and need to hear that message again and again.

Ha, ha, I do that a lot. Let rip, then think better of it.

Where do you live?

You start please.

A very useful social skill. I can use it e.g. to restrain myself when someone is rude to me, and just ignore it. But it also makes it possible for me to be cold and cruel. Everything can be used for good and evil.

@-ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ- knows lots about that. Hi Yoda. Welcome to the forum.

Yes. I went through the same experience, “disconcerting as I believe myself to be this whole person”. Now, I have two legs to walk and two brain-halves to think - these are all part of my body. ‘ I ‘ am the awareness.

This is part of my normal everyday awareness. I think it’s a very important ability to have. It is the exchange between my two brain-halves that enables me to change myself.

Are you the founder and only member of this faith? Is it connected with 天命 (tian1 ming4) Mandate of Heaven?

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

Same difference. Google Latin ‘ ze neca ‘ kill him

a psycho(path)-therapist.

(I had to Google that), it means feeding pigs. Righto, so it wasn’t a typo (o/a).

I did that. Wow. a road to death

@Lost In Void I guess you know by now I’m not really into TC. @ChiDragon is an expert.

The Dao Bums. what's Cheng Man-Ch’ing?

Hi 'Found at TDB' , welcome to the fourm. Enjoy. What's TC and CMC?

So it comes down to belief system. A Daoist will believe the received copy. Others may believe the Sinologists findings. Each to his own.

I hear this a lot, “My teacher knows what the DDJ says, because he is Chinese.” Really? The DDJ was written at least 2300 years ago. Can an English speaker read Beowulf? And that’s from ‘merely’ a 1000 ago. Languages evolve.