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The little yellow book according to these two. Most interesting version of Dao reminds me a lot of the JW's!

Yes I did, Li Erh was invited to come by me to teach me his teachings back in 1985/6. When he came we looked at a lot of different translations, some bits were ok, like the Feng/English, but many were not and he taught me what it should be. You will see that the emphasis is totally changed, giving a different meaning. By 1987 I had written all 81 chapters down. I then had to wait another five years before it was published.

His grandfather has merged with the energies of the environment not just qi!

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Today Many school Children bunked off school in protest of not enough is being done about this ever approaching disaster. We are losing nearly 1000 species every month. There are currently 36% human population, 60% cattle and domesticated animals and 4% wild animals inhabit this earth. Yes its shocking. The sea has also lost massive amounts of species also. As Dao followers what do you think we can do to help this disaster? Give us some ideas to help solve this problem. I know what I have done, but I want to hear what others think.

Where I live it is very clear and clean in terms of air pollution and apart from when the tourist come, pollution is not a problem. Since lockdown, the light is so crystal clear, everything seems to dazzle and it's almost too strong to cope with on sunny days. We have got used to a certain level of air pollution and when it is lowered we notice the difference. Shame we can't keep it like that, my solar off grid system has been generating huge amounts of electricity for a domestic set up.

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Hi Folks I thought some of you might appreciate some of my paintings I did back in 2003/4, plus one of my guitar compositions made up on the spot. Hope you enjoy

This thread is typical of a Dao Bum thread. Someone can bring up a serious, perhaps contentious subject, everyone thinks they are experts (but they are not). The consensus start to pick on one person or other and it all goes downhill pretty quickly with name calling and insults, digs, etc. etc. Such a waste of time. Personally I have left the Dao Bums many times due to the quality of the posts that are written on here. There is no moderation; we have gone from a dictatorship to a free for all. Personally I get very discourage posting anything on here at all.

Why would I want to read the words of Prof Johnson? Don't I have a real Divine master who teaches me what is the way? True Magic comes from true enlightenment and from the power given by Immortals. It is a power one can feel flowing through the body, it can be let out (fa) to do all sorts of things. One does not need any sort of dress to feel and to use this power.

Actually it is what you have in your heart not the robe that you wear. That is what separates the fakes from the real

Oh dear.... the words plastic shaman come to mind......mind games being the operative words. Its comical, why look like that? Real shamans you wouldn't recognise them if you met them. They don't look like this.

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Hmmm.... Youtube won't let me me put 'Church' live in Jordan, But chooses this one...odd... either that or TDBS site won't take it! Anyway my favourite song at the present is the live version, very atmospheric with sunset and drone footage. Go to youtube and look up Church by coldplay live in Jordan

I think you have the wrong end of sticks and mixing up various knowledges and applying it like jam to everybody's toast! The theory you are expressing is exactly that, just a theory expressed by many. We may share the same energy that connects all living things, but we are all separate energy entities in differing states of well being, in differing states of perception, very different bodies etc. and more importantly differing states of experience and cultivation. The secrets of the universe are exactly that and the way to Immortality is a process and becoming one takes far more self input and knowledge than a shared consciousness. I am in a certain state of cultivation as a shaman, the Immortal Masters have made it to the highest state of cultivation. We may share the same energy in common, but that's where the similarity starts and ends.

Firstly I'm not an Immortal. If we first describe what an Immortal is and isn't we have our understanding. In the heavens there are thousands of Immortals. Some as old as the universe itself. The heavens is the sky above us. We cannot see the immortals there as they are just energy, although they sometimes can visit the earth as humans or any other life. They are in the greatest state a living thing can be in. They have transcended the material world and are literally energy. We are as life a mixture of matter and energy, but an Immortal has cultivated so that their energy is much greater than their matter. So when their matter dies, what is left is energy, unrestricted by a body. Now there are all sorts of levels of Immortals. We as ordinary people may have the embryo of an infant Immortal inside us, but it is what we do, what we cultivate etc. depends on what level we get to in the level of the spirit that we have inside us. It may take us a thousand lifetimes to get to being an Immortal. The Immortal is the spirit of a human or animal that has transcended the material world. The Immortal and I are completely separate, just like two humans. But one is in a super powerful pure and cultivated state. The spirit entity is so unbelievably powerful in its ability to move anything if it wants to for instance. An Immortal can move the sun and send it billions of light years away from us. It can do unimaginable things. With such power comes responsibility. That's why it's so difficult to become an Immortal. This is what I know