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Agreed. All that equanimity seems repression to me. The Dalai Lama turned out to be a perv. “Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to ‘suck my tongue’ “ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/dalai-lama-apologises-kissing-boy-suck-his-tongue-video I was so disappointed. Buddhist enlightenment to me is totally unimportant in comparison to just being a decent person.

Righto. But a person does not have to be a Buddhist, in order to become enlightened.

I don’t want to be without suffering permanently, it’s not natural. Suffering, like all our emotions, has a function, e.g. in mourning.

趣 (dictionary) - interesting. But seems it also means ‘funny’? ’grappig toch’ - Funny, right!

Perfect! But you left out a bit: “Grappig toch!”

@wandelaar heb je het etiket gelezen op mijn pindakaas pot? Grappig toch!

@Keith108 Righto, 見性 jian4 xing4

Interesting. Why is that? What is “openings”?

Sorry, don’t understand, what is the taboo in Zen? What does this icon mean? Yes. Hmm ... Interesting.

No, these bums love talking about their experiences. They just don’t like those musings interfered with by facts. My interest is (was ) translating the DDJ from characters; that’s just factual.

Lol, that made me laugh, because that’s exactly what one of the above mentioned bums called me. Some really dislike facts, it interferes with their esoteric musings.

Agreed. E.g. In a thread about a certain phrase in the DDJ, I posted that this phrase is actually not present in the oldest versions of the DDJ. For that I got called a ‘troll’. Very odd that, I thought. So didn’t post about Daoism again in threads with these bums. There are some interesting old threads. That’s about it.

Tja … Het ‘3-Nederlanders’ subforum.

Question: “Is Buddhism incomplete?”. My answer: I could not care less. Same goes for the Abrahamic stuff, not interested; that’s not what I joined this forum for. When I post anything Daoist, there usually is no response.

cf 自然 zi4 ran2 - self-so. “Ziran signifies the state of not relying on or existing according to anything external.” https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/54593-zi4-ran2-自然/?do=findComment&comment=1003399

I prefer the Visconti-Sforza cards. This one has the winged horses, with harness and reins. She is holding sceptre (yang) and orb (yin). She is not holding the reins.

Why are there no reins? Also invisible? Why are the sphinxes lying down? On strike? Or too “itchy” perhaps?

and in some other ones too, e.g.:

I see no harness. Why are the sphinx/horses holding their tales in their paws?

cf “yin & yang” 萬 物 負 陰 而 抱 陽 wàn wù fù yīn ér bào yáng - All turned their backs on the yin, and embraced the yang; 中 氣 以 為 和 zhōng qì yǐ wéi hé - the two primordial essences blended, creates harmony. (DDJ Ch 42)

Sorry, didn’t know, I don’t have time to read all the posts. I tend to read only the short posts.

Hadn’t heard of IFS before but this resonates. I made a conscious decision about 40 years ago to use my ‘internalised parents part’ (very capable but unpleasant) to protect and raise my ‘inner child’ (practically without capabilities at that time).

IFS, interesting stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model#:~:text=IFS posits that the mind,interests%2C memories%2C and viewpoint. @liminal_luke (my apologies if I am wrong) the noble ‘Managers’ reminded me of you.

I’m done in 6 words: I know I have a self. Obviously if you’re not in touch with yourself, then you can endlessly make up theories about it existing or not.

That’s your opinion.