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I usually avoid talking right and wrong, but this is well beyond wrong. If you wish to study it with an open mind in different areas and eras and taking into account the relationships between the different emanations of power and state, you'd inevitably come to the opposite conclusion... Well, unless, maybe you wish top education only for a few and none (or twisted and shallow propaganda) for the rest... Which is narrow sighted too, as it is very possible that more educated people can also create and environment in which more brilliant minds appear. As for virtual education online, try to learn taiji boxing alone in your bedroom for some good laughs.

Let's talk then. What is a feeling?

When talking enlightment, I never thought of the light from a YouTube PowerPoint...

Fear can often play a role in love. Overcoming fear goes with love. In the transformation there is a moment when you have both, this is the strongest. Fear is a booster. Fear + love =(becomes)> super love. Or maybe I am entirely wrong. Fun in the Tao knows no wrong.

I am not afraid of Buddha.

Forum Addiction: An on going epidemic?

I think that is getting closer and closer.

Not always... and not everybody the same. To fear suffering wee simultaneously.

Wait a minute. I'm the leader. I decide what it was. [pause] It was a little ol' cricket bug. Napoleon (The Aristocats)

Root is the fear of suffering. Fear is the suffering of all roots. Marvel is an arrangement of all words... It's also a producer of super heroes.

Fear is life, fear is good. Life is suffering too. Suffering is good. How much life can you bare ? How much suffering is ideal for you ? A lot of fear, he said, and very little suffering. Leave me some serenity so I can enjoy what is taken. Does suffering have roots? What makes it grow? What are the roots for? In what do they ground themselves? What goes through them? My niece said: I have to suffer so I can compare with Snow White and Cinderella. My roots are self love and will to grandeur. My needs are a Prince and fights so we love eachother. I am in fear of not suffering and getting a boring life. It is enough for me to feel alive. It is not too much so I don't realise I am dying. My niece goes dancing and singing "once upon a dream". If life is a triangle and fear is the hypothenuse, then the square root of fear equals two squared stuff put together and there is something about a circle all around. I am gRoot.

Don't you feel much better like this? I only had a glimpse of what you went through and, though enjoyable and deeply enriching, it already made me feel off balance. By the way, glad to meet you.

What an enjoyable subject! Thank you so much Marblehead for the contributions. I don't know much about TaoTeKing as I never felt attracted enough to it. But I feel some deep bond with the ZhuangZi, or mostly to ZhuangZi himself... The guy is wise and hilarious. Based on Jean-François Billeter's studies and my own imagination, I tend to see ZZ's work as older than what we attribute to LZ. Suddenly everything makes more sense. ZZ would have an original philosophy not based on Daoism but mostly Confuciasnims and Mohism. He then takes long roads to explain what both for him and others would seem obscure (... and should partly stay obscure). I'd even think he doesn't care that much about Dao. Dao is a toy to reveal the strange ways of thinking, action, knowledge and transmission. If this is one subject, then this is the core of his work. Dao is the trick of the magician. Marvel is the gem. Could not the author of TaoTeKing be a follower of ZhuangZi, who put the legend of LaoZi and some ideas of ZZ to good use for the current rulers of the state? Thus both cristalyzing some things about Dao, kind of betraying some ideas of ZZ and incidentally contributing to save him for posterity. He'd then be the true father of Daoism (under a false name, who cares?). ZhuangZi would then be the incidental and unintentional grandfather. Imagine him listening to Daoists today, wouldn't he laugh at them the way he laughed at Confucius and other serious people ? Of course, I ramble as always. Irrationality and halfeducation are my norm.

Hi there, I am mostly boring when I make sense. And it seems I understand things better when I believe I will write nonsense. I have interest in Zhuang Zi. I practice some chinese martial arts or maybe I teach. I practiced some sexual qigong and tantra for a while. I believe the taijitu to be a symbol with an extraordinarily wisely inspired design, probably solving in a single shot all gender questions. Well, that is for now... I suppose I will change my mind again soon. I hope to have my certainties shattered again... But keep learning, experiencing and experimenting. Not a big fan of consensus and local dogmas (from which maybe aroused the sudden but repressed impulse to proclaim myself a bot... Yeah, sorry I have been a webmaster too, totally sympathize). But I usually behave alright. I don't want to say too much about me. I'd better leave my words and ideas flow than be tied to a persona... be it my identity. In short: Hi all!

Thank you! By the way I am unable to edit my message (I suppose it's normal or maybe I missed something). Could it be possible to correct a typo due to my auto spellchecker: "personal" instead of "persona"?