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Sitting and forgetting

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3 minutes ago, Apech said:

That's me - when I'm feeling lively.

nice pajamas hombre

3 hours ago, Apech said:

I want to make sure that I understand what zouwang is

him  who coined that old hat puts it best

 'I sit and forget everything.' Zhongni changed countenance, and said, 'What do you mean by saying that you sit and forget (everything)?' Yan Hui replied, 'My connexion with the body and its parts is dissolved; my perceptive organs are discarded. Thus leaving my material form, and bidding farewell to my knowledge, I am become one with the Great Pervader. This I call sitting and forgetting all things.' ........Zhongni said, '

3 hours ago, Apech said:

Some of what I have read suggests it is part of the Buddhist/Daoist crossover

 

 Zhuang-zi says it is actually a Confucian thing.  Since he was the first to write that term down , he probably knows ;) 

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1 hour ago, Taoist Texts said:

good job on translation. just one small thing: what you rendered "sitting with concealment" “隐机而坐”  is actually this posture

image.png.c4f7d1ceaaa74c6b67bce21215ccd8ec.pngleaning with one elbow on a small table or a pillow

 

 

perfect, I only need to grow a beard

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1 hour ago, Taoist Texts said:

nice pajamas hombre

him  who coined that old hat puts it best

 'I sit and forget everything.' Zhongni changed countenance, and said, 'What do you mean by saying that you sit and forget (everything)?' Yan Hui replied, 'My connexion with the body and its parts is dissolved; my perceptive organs are discarded. Thus leaving my material form, and bidding farewell to my knowledge, I am become one with the Great Pervader. This I call sitting and forgetting all things.' ........Zhongni said, '

 

 Zhuang-zi says it is actually a Confucian thing.  Since he was the first to write that term down , he probably knows ;) 


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10 minutes ago, blue eyed snake said:

 

perfect, I only need to grow a beard


I think you could get by with a false one.

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47 minutes ago, Apech said:


I think you could get by with a false one.

 

thats good, less energy needed for cleaning and combing

plus take off when it's hot in summer

 

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Rest As Awareness.

 

No method, no technique, no forgetting, no achieving and no process.

Rest as awareness.

 

 

 

 

 

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