Taoist Texts

All of this has absolutely nothing to do with global climate change. A disingenuous red herring.

there is a name for people who need much amusement on the internet forums

Neidan makes the neidaneers very very angry. We all saw it on this forum and elsewhere. Remarkably there was not a single one of them who would not be given to super angry outbursts of neidan gibberish laced with insults. Every single one of them like that. Poor fellas are driving themselves mad with those orbits of theirs.

what about those who try to practice Nei Dan while having an orbit, are they fooling themselves?

Sorry your answer makes no sense. What high voltage? What wires? Could you answer my question directly without meaningless metaphors? I will try again. Why does a neidan practitioner need an orbit? What is the purpose of the orbit? Please speak to the point. Thank you.

And that is wrong because...?

you must have mastered all of them

the method of the great elixir is very simple and very easy and that although stupid and dull, if the small man attains this method and puts it into practice he will immediately leap up to the level of the sages.

do you know any Chinese?

you should not be doing those, they are useless, harmful and dangerous

Like this?

only because he was shilling for it

its a mistranslation 一物能化谓之神，一事能变谓之智。 should be "those who have One and are able to transform with things are called Gods" its the same situation as with god-father and god-son in Christianity. Both are supreme gods. Same here dao=one, one=dao.

try to think in full sentences

it is the same "one' in both texts = dao

Oh i was just translating ancient texts day in and day out for 20 years)

this one is ok https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/jds/ however i dont use journals per se because they are behind the paywall. but their articles end up here https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Chinese_Religions

i would venture that these two abilities do not have much in common). I understand those texts for a living, being not native.

i admire these two oldsters. keep on slugging, i bow to you guys

because it would be about as much help as learning English to read Latin

Thats just 30 ppl and only $100 each. just saying That could have been the case 50 years ago, but the academic publications are so chock full of translations by now that i cant keep up reading them

it was not very clear what is it Yes it is one of the reasons why it is quite ok to do so.

because everybody who is somebody also has them? China In 2012, China provided $165 billion in agricultural subsidies.[28] In 2018, China increased their subsidies for soybean farmers in their northeastern provinces. Indonesia In 2012, Indonesia provided $28 billion in agricultural subsidies.[31]