Procurator

there should be a "No Mountainstream Left Behind Act" then what? not helpful?

not quite. yours is a western thinking 仙灵哉不威 - 自畏 师老矣有德 - 须尊 when an immortal turns into a heavenly being he becomes not imposing - then its time to be in awe of him when a teacher grows old it means he has accumulated De - then one must worship him. i cant read cursive on the other two, ask Chidragon.

top one is Southern Heaven White Crane Immortal Teacher

more like a turbulent stream rushing down the mountain its not that they are particularly sneaky , its that the students are more than willing to dupe themselves "hey, just wave yr hands smoothly its taichee, man" i know this by going back to the source. in this DVD u will find the original unadulterated river phrase as well as see what real TJQ looks like http://www.amazon.com/Tai-Chi-Instruction-DVD-Zhaobao/dp/B000J0TRWI

it may come as an unpleasant surprise to you or your instructor but Yang family taichee for external students is a ruse to conceal secrets. they do it from performing the form in such a way as to hide whats going on and in twisting the language of old sayings. in this case the saying was "the form should NOT be like a flowing river". they just dropped the negative. clever.

oh come on. for what? no offense was taken, ppl nowdays get offended way too easy.

u seem to be confusing cause and effect here. a teacher's retort to this statement would be "if there is no embryo how can there be his breathing? exactly. and its just the beginning.

i have completely experienced that phrase and that phase. i dont think u have.

if you read e.g. Ch. Luk's "Chinese yoga" u will find a phrase "first stage is white light - it is useless" if whatever u r doing involved ming too u would noticed specific effects on the body, beyond what u have described.

these are good results but because yr teacher did not explain u the process- u still work with xing only. that leads to a second error - collecting light that is not ripe yet. otherwise, good for you.

oh yeah quite a lot thanks for lending a shoulder to sob on apech i am not "here", 5 min of my online time is here. u r actually the most innocuous one , nobody is impugning u, but u r aider and abetter.

sean unleashed a bunch of new-agey PC cheerleaders on forum thinking that he will catch more flies with honey than with honest exchange of opinions. as a result the forum turned into a a saccharine cesspool meaning he shot himself in the foot. the mods are now corrupt thought police who viciously punish every critique of businesses they are associated with be it wang lipin, kunlun or frantzis. the blind who tolerate this deserve to be led by the blind.

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in all fairness to amateur translators with sub-par english their "translations" make as much sense as those "professional" ones, i . e - none. both of them have no clue whatsoever 天下之至柔,馳騁天下之至堅. do they have any idea that the first line means smth like "in order to completely subdue the country - the punitive expeditions must be executed with extreme prejudice"? no they dont.

i would disagree with this statement. in every cavalry there is a dichotomy between a prized steed and a mass warfare horse. the opening lines are "accepted wisdom" something like a aphorism with centuries of experience behind it. "When there is Dao under Heaven even the prized steeds are left idle (or used for manure). When there is no Dao under Heaven then even suburbian lands (normally reserved for agriculture to support the city) are used to mass produce mass warfare horses" the analogy is that of vegetable gardens established in view of war necessities in White House and Buckinghem Palace in WW2. also the dichotomy is between a small peacefull state where prized mounted steeds were used for chivalric duels or pomp and a totalitarian mass armies of huge chariot formations along the lines of Qin. http://www.ancientmilitary.com/ancient-chinese-military.htm http://donlehmanjr.com/China/china%20chapters/china%20book2/china39.htm http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/hsarkissian/Jie%20Lao%20Sample%20Translation%20-%20Hagop%20Sarkissian.pdf the rest of the paragraph is authors interpretation of this accepted wisdom.

the foremost problem with this chapter is that the translators incl. Chidragon (hehe) completely miss on a dichotomy between steer steeds (used for individual chivalric combat) and rongma (chariot horses used in mass armies).

it comes from the agricultural religion.

榖 hmm, no that makes no sense. there is no spirit in the valley. those are contrived rationalisations by native speakers who lost ties to traditional teachings.

heh)) they both make zero sense, spirit of the valley is as nonsensical as spirit of the bath. they both are erroneous, it was a diff character initially.

must be because they were written in chinglish too

i am not sure about "another process" but yes the timing at which the U-turn occurs is , in fact, being suggested here by semantics of its not some kind of jujitsu weakness/softness by which strength is defeated, as misunderstood by translators and bandied about by naive readers, not at all. "softness" is a misconception of what actually is been said here. its just, that at the onset of puberty (13 to 20 yrs for humans) the Dao starts to instill senility into living things to recycle them back into nothingness.