Taoist Texts

1. take a Chinese word wu-wei, declare that it means whatever you want it to mean 2. take a story from Zhuang-zi where Zhuang-zi does not say the story is about wu-wei, declare that you know better than Zhuang-zi what the Zhuang-zi story is about and the story is actually about wu-wei (despite there is no wu-wei in it) 3. sell books and lectures on wu-wei, PROFIT! What can one say? A nice job if you can get it.

Or, look at this No, this is another lie. The character used is The guy just makes up crap as he goes.

Yes, he can not. To the new-agees words have no meaning so its impossible to prove anything to you guys). What a honest scholar would do after quoting these 2 stories? He would say 'although the exact words are not there but I think..." Of course nobody would buy his book then, because nobody is interested in his own thoughts. That is why he is lying by presenting his own opinion as that of Zhuang-zi. And that, my friend, makes him a quack.

Sure. At the beginning of Chpt 1 he quotes 2 ZZ stories of the cook and the woodcarver as prime examples of woo-wei. https://books.google.nl/books?id=sTG0AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Which is false indeed, because nowhere in these stories Zhuang-zi uses the word 无为. Here check for yourself, https://ctext.org/zhuangzi/ens?searchu=无为 in fact ZZ uses that word 30 times only in his huge canon and these 2 stories are NOT among those occurrences. Think about it for a sec, a guy has a PhD in ancient Chinese studies, made a great career in academics, but because he has new-agee books to sell, he stoops to such lame shell game. Sad, really.

oh you are welcome to investigate all you want, but with that attitude you will never understand, just like that author divergent only to an outsider using the sectarian terminology proves a lot

Of course he did. The Hindu scholars say so.

1 and 2 are hopelessly bad translations 3 and 4 are just bad this is correct, yes quite close

lol https://thewire.in/history/kanad-vaisheshik-msu-atom

no, after At the end of his career, Hipparchus wrote a book called Peri eniausíou megéthous ("On the Length of the Year") about his results. The established value for the tropical year, introduced by Callippus in or before 330 bc was 365 + 1/4 days.[32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus#Apparent_motion_of_the_Sun Hipparchus of Nicaea (/hɪˈpɑːrkəs/; Greek: Ἵππαρχος, Hipparkhos; c. 190 – c. 120 bc) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician.

Because you say that his family is moral but he, the head of that family is immoral. How can that be? A man who got a moral girl to wed him; who raised his children to be moral; who clothes, shelters and feeds his family - but you call him an immoral person? You really need to examine your personal reasons for this kind of thinking.

Seems like he is not so immoral

why?

It is very important and i wish i kept that excellent article. But it was many moons and many notebooks ago, so i dont know the name. But the warning is commonplace you can see it in the subtitles at 3:56 as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zou_huo_ru_mo

if you want to understand these obvious matters, you have to first ask yourself 'why am I thinking about them at all'?

not at all this is good not bad its ok There was an article by a 90 y o chinese master. On subject of heat in ldt he had this to say: "Take extreme care not to burn qi in your belly. Great danger! Great danger!"

next the heat will damage your innards

Broadly speaking yes. Sunyata, Wuji is the place where Nibbana is.

In the Akankheyya Sutta of the Majjhima-Nikaya, a detailed explanation for each of them is given by the Buddha Himself in the formof instruction as to how they may be acquired. 1. IDDHIVIDHA - THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION. The Buddha said "If a monk should frame a wish as follows: "Let me exercise the various magical powers, let me being one become multiform., let me being multiform become one, let me become visible, become invisible, go without hindrance through walls, ramparts or mountains as if through air, let me rise and sink in the ground as if in the water, let me walk on the water as if on unyielding ground, let me travel cross-legged through the air liked a winged bird, let me touch and feel with my hand the moon and the sun mighty and powerful though they are, and let me go without my body even up to the Brahma world," then must he be perfect in the precepts (Sila), bring his thoughts to a state of quiescence (Samadhi), practice diligently the trances (Jhana), attain to insight (Panna) and be frequenter to lonely places."

oh no no, thank you. I am doing some boring work on my comp, so thank you for an intermittent respite. yes like who exactly?

If the river is too clean, you will catch no fish. The saying implies you should not be too hard on crooks https://www.ft.com/content/88d03210-ffb0-11e4-bc30-00144feabdc0 https://enlightenmentward.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/water-which-is-too-pure-has-no-fish/ the final form is Dao incarnate. Dao encompasses the physical and the intangible worlds, thats why Lu who joined Dao could be physical or intangible at will. You can say he melted the two worlds together, just as he did with xing and ming.

If the waters are too clean, no fish lives there https://ctext.org/analects/ens Lu dong-bin, a confucian immortal

No i am a confucian yes

Nibbana is the end goal, immortal ghost is one of the stages leading to it Immortal ghost is not hungry for ancestral sacrifices, he can survive in the beyond on his own Yes, for a while, until he dissipates for good.

it is different, because not all ghosts are hungry ghosts. The buddhist in the story was an immortal ghost, which is a tremendous achievement, one the ordinary people can only dream of.