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you don’t explain your choice there you just say what it is. Why is morals better than name(s)?

People study Shakespeare using modern English versions if they tried the original they wouldn’t understand it - same with Chaucer and Beowulf etc.

why though what is your reasoning?

@Cobie that's interesting but surely the whole idea of this chapter is a kind of play off between named and nameless (or unnamed) ... which would make ming = name as more likely.

What is heaven and what is earth then?

To most people it would be incomprehensible

I would suggest some meditation on what it actually means before translating. For instance why is the invisible that which produces heaven and earth. What is heaven, what earth and so on. Otherwise you are working in the dark so to speak.

What exactly is your wife placing her hand oh?

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Jesus H. Christ.

None of those things are therapies.

Have you tried a martial art?

I thought it may be your responsibility to strengthen your self control.

I think people who know serious things, if I can put it that way, are nervous about posting their ideas and being greeted with ridicule or low IQ takes. It’s a frustrating and depressing experience. As is immediate derailment into the world of slop.

Less dimwittery and slop.

There’s quite a lot of historical crossover between Tibet and China. There are tankas with the trigrams on for instance. And the 10th Karmapa regularly met with sifus and they attended his funeral. So I don’t think we should think things are very rigidly separated.

What does ‘grok its quale’ mean?

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In order to perfect your meditation it is very important to not stop thinking.

Zouwang has something of the dzogchen about it.

Don’t bother answering the question will you?

My teacher from way back had a ‘family book’ which he occasionally mentioned but was cagey about what was actually in it. It seemed it included some Feng Shui apart from other stuff. He was also something of a Sino- supremicist and a bit sneery about anything western (including toast for some reason). Yes he was a toastist.

I know what you think, I wasn’t asking you.

Thank. Does pure original Neidan even exist?

Second set Luke leads one set to love New balls please