Cobie
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For me that is reminiscent of Saint Gregory Palamas. He said God is invisible, unknowable in his fundamental essence. But becomes visible, makes himself knowable through the visible things created.
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That’d be the ‘wiener dog’! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdVxbD41lV4
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“… the nothingness of Dao is the emptiness of the female womb … from nothing all beings come. (Sinologist Ellen M. Chen, ‘In Praise of Nothing’ page 93)
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I think it’s a spoof. (As far as I know) Nungali knows no Classical Chines at all, so cannot translate. I think it’s supposed to be funny.
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Well that’s highly disappointing, that’s just the same old same old version. And doesn’t even use the Mawangdui characters.
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The fox changes his fur, not his habits.
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I don’t want to create an account. Could you post his DDJ chapter 1 here please?
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I use direct translation.
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I don’t know what IG is, but the rest is so true. I use Duolingo.
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古文 (gu3 wen2) Classical Chinese. This is the language the DDJ was written in, one character represents one idea. 文言文 (wen2 yan2 wen2) Literary Chinese. This uses phrases to represent complex ideas [成語 (cheng2 yu3) set phrases]. It cannot be used to read the DDJ.
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The Daodejing that is punctuated is not the eternal Daodejing
Cobie replied to Taomeow's topic in Daodejing
Only some. The taboo turned 恆 into a synonym; it did not affect 常 . You can check on DIO. E.g. for ch. 1 it shows both MWD A and B with 恆 (http://www.daoisopen.com/downloads/CC1.pdf). For ch. 16, both MWD A and B have 常 four times (http://www.daoisopen.com/downloads/CC16.pdf). -
Nice thread. My favorite is the Chinese version, I like that music.
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@ChiDragon the typo is that the title starts with a letter ‘D’ (should be a letter ‘B’).
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I never click on links unless given at the end of some writing (to provide the source or for further info).
