Wu Ming Jen

Kongming I agree 2500 years ago the world view was polar complete east and west just like Taoist philosophy the Greek movement of absolute fragment philosophy of Socrates won the war of world view changing to absolute fragment from polar complete, which western civilization is built upon. I have studied in China on Wudang Mountain, The Taoist academy now welcomes foreigners to study. One out of a hundred will make it no matter what race. When we put opposites in two separate and opposing groups with no relationship between each other that is friction and it will wear out. the Greek philosophy is harmful to humans they were looking for a supernatural second world not looking out for human needs.Humans were made the lower world not able to understand. that power was given to god, In god we trust makes humans not responsible any more. What a bunch of cowards looking for the easy way out, Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is harmful. Knowledge that benefits all beings is a blessing, man is the measure of all things not a pretend second world, so while the west had gods doing stuff to humans and the world around them the east simply observed and nature gave the empirical natural laws, so now days modern astrology is the Chinese system from BC, Quantum physics is the only form of western science that comes close to Taoist science today remarkable

Sorry I meant crisis pictograph is danger + opportunity. This can be argued because of so many different meanings of both characters, much depends on what is being talked about and placement of pictographs used before and after. In the context of polar complete philosophy of Lao Tzu this meaning makes perfect sense , English with absolute meaning and fragment of the whole way of language makes this pictograph of crisis stand out.

Opinion from self separates me from the whole. I transcend such ways of thought (most of the time) but for fun and discussion I must remain on the human plane of communication,Our language is set up in duality. In Chinese danger also mean opportunity.

Lao Tzu mentions the great mystery If you can enter the gate with intellectual thinking please share. This is dark this is light compared to each other using mind is easy. Now if these two things are one mind goes what? We can see how they complete each other and become a whole But how can we know something not compared to something else. There maybe nothing to know. We come from the unknown original mind is tranquil and peaceful what need for concepts or words at all? Only my opinion which is partial knowledge.

If I forget about the words and the translations because there are so so many. First chapter,Tao is not a what,what ever we say is not the true Tao. Visible forms can be talked about (named) but see the formless in form and see form in the formless.Seeing the unseen is truly seeing. seeing with just the eyes is no good, human mind is no good, These concepts In TTC are beyond intellectual, rational and discriminating mind..This is where the mystery lies, the gate. The author wants to point out how limited human mind is and provokes the reader to use a different mode of mind to follow and understand. The Tao or shinning mind is always with us but is used less as the self takes over as the lead role of life.This is where the Greeks went wrong 2500 years ago using rational mind to understand the world with out transcending mind itself. The line about we call it two things but is one source is yin and yang these two are actually one.Just like talking about different internal organs of the body but really there is one body. This is my story today and it will change the next day Tranquility and peace to all

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Giving a quick hello as instructed so I can join in the conversations else where. Wu Ming Jen comes from a Taoist story meaning human no name. I have been studying for long time. Recently back from Wu Dang Mountain in China, 7 hours of Internal Kung Fu a day and I have a passion for Taoist Alchemy and so on.