Limahong

Understand your typed loss. It has happened to me and will again. History repeats itself. Here we have loss and pain; so what is meant by 'no pain, no gain'? Like TDB. So far I have experienced camaraderie and lightness of being. Glad to be connected thus to you. Have noted your 'theoretical EVERYTHING and nothing'. For me it is - 'experiential ANYTHING or nothing'. PyL and PmDa. - LimA

So you are just a body and I am a busybody?

Hi Frank, I am sure Marblehead wanted to add this but his kettle whistled: 'Bad' is a realization to 'good'. - LimA

Hi Deltrus, Thank you for engaging with my posting. I like where you are coming from; seems like I have known you for a long time. Why? It appears that my domain can collapse into yours fairly comfortably and you will not kick me out. I bet that you are a living dualist. Why? Because you are both simple/complex. You have extra Buddhist seeds in your pockets? Can you give me some to reduce my suffering? Per the simple <=> complex continuum, I prefer to live more to the left.Will this make me a minimalist by your own definition? No thank you - I do not want to wait for 50 years to know certainty. You can keep it all to yourself. Why? Yesterday night Buddha appeared in a dream and told me to meditate on impermanence. PyL and PmDa. - LimA

Hi robbie, Nice to know that you have enlisted yourself as a Taoist Bummy. I am newly enlisted too. Please advise: is your Dr Wilhelm Reich the same person as that of Richard Wilhelm (re Secret of the Golden Flower)? - LimA

Hi Marblehead, I will now take my leave from the Welcome Forum. Thank you for having me. I will within short move into the big domain of TDB. What will I do there? Or how will I go about there? I will search, hang around, creep around, stalk, rummage, lurk … Not to worry, I will be on my best behavior - not devious, suspicious, shady, shifty, fishy … Believe I will be 'person' focused – i.e. follow the threads of selected/reviewed bummies. It will be more holistic per person and less fragmentary. As for subjects, I will first track the ‘jing/qi/shen framework’ as reflected in a Deltrus posting. I am a graduate from a few 100 days challenges. I would like to refine myself here. If there are no postings that require responses from me, I will disappear for a while. It is not goodbye but until soon. - LimA

Hi Marble Thank you for making all newbies feel welcome. When I am here, my wish is to tinker about without being disruptive to others. - LimA

Good morning. I will stay one more day today at this forum and then I will move on. This is a Welcome forum and I must not overstay. I am made to feel at home here. Thank you. I know I will feel the same at large within TDB. - LimA

HI "A" Trees, I find your sense of humor ticklish. When I saw lmao my first thought was that of Chairman Mao. But when I clicked on the website next to Nungali, I was floored. I think your sharing of lmao is timely as reflected thus: It stands for Laughing My "A" Off. It literally means laughing until your "A" becomes detached from your body. It is a serious medical condition and must be treated "A" SOON "A" POSSIBLE. Why asap? Because "A" is in Whollyland where it is instrumental in waking up these - perinuem, huiyin, first chakra, kundalini ,,, You are from Down Under? No wonder. Cheers to energy moving up from point "A". - LimA

Hi OldAngel - dicey is nicely put. Kudos to Marblehead for this - Well, it's good that you recognize that you have work to do. Many never attain that realization. Hello Allthesmallthings - I second Marblehead; you have arrived at a destination per 'the best is yet to be' if you put your heart to whatever it takes to be better. Put your past behind you with respect to all the small things. How can you be positive? All the yin aspects in your past have positive yang flip-sides henceforth. I am new at TDB too. Thus far, I am upbeat. Let us go in search of good Taoist drums to beat dualistically and realistically - and be reborn as yummy Dao Bummies.

Hi Marblehead, A 1000 apologies for clicking 'right, left and centre'. Made many mistakes. But finally I arrived here with a quotation in tow. I like your take on 'mistake'. I too have a positive slant towards mistakes. Without mistakes, I learn less. I learn to like you through mistakes when I found out that you are not fishy. - LimA

Hi Stosh, Nice knowing you. I had similar 'not so nice' experiences. But when I chose not to be engaged, there was nothing much anyone could say. To me open sharing of anything beautiful is nice in the names of - sisterhood of women and brotherhood of men. Emphasis is on sharing, not comparing. The latter can make one vain/bitter. When I can share 'anything' with someone experientially, life and living are just great. If I cannot, I just shut up. From a Taoist perspective, everything is wrong/right - right?

Yes it makes sense to me. To each his own. That's why life is so varied and beautiful.

On a continuum of 'religion => philosophy' (or 'faith => reason') where/how do we place Buddhism. Hinduism and Taoism? Is it correct to have these ordered placements: (1) In ascending order of religious inclinations - Taoism, Buddhism and Hinduism? (2) In ascending order of philosophical inclinations - Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism?

These questions are asked respectfully (definitely no offence intended): (1) Religions = various pathways to the Divine? (2) The Divine is THE Divine?

Great. Just poking fun ahead of some serious stuff to come when I move beyond welcome. Also want to ensure that I become a better person for having joined TDB - thus self-preservation without any reservation. (preservation = passing-reservation). I preserve myself dynamically, yin/yang-style as learning is ever on-going. As I move on, I may leave behind some preservables (as in pickled vegetables). You can have them. I only go for fresh stuff. Don't get me wrong. It is perfectly OK not to be right so long as there is transparency, ownership and no hurting. We are only human. As for changing the mind - it is as perfect as it is not. Reasons - (1) Taoism - yin/yang dynamism, (2) Buddhism - impermanence and (3) Hinduism - ? (can anyone help?) All said training the mind is important as I am my mind. Nobody can take it from me as it is mine alone. - LimA (CYA = ? Your interests - short skirts and bikinis. Who wears them?)

Hello ‘teamdialectics’, It is never my intention to critical; please be rest assured that I am just trying to be practical. The word 'few' appeared twice in your post - one too many? Have noted that you posted on 1st April - are you a 'f..l'? If so, so am I - a daily one (not once a year). If you are chuckling reading this, my foolish effort has not gone to waste. Where I am now, it is 2:30am - time for bed. Fyi - as a fool, I always pray that my sleep is dreamless, pity the man who knows more ... Good night. - LimA

Hi Mig, What are the difference(s) between 'dao jia and dao jiao'? Some say we must embrace simplicity; so to me the difference between the two is a simple 'o'. Can I think like that and be happy? Pity the man who knows more, happy an absolute idiot. I do not like to indulge in self-pity - so I don't want to know more than necessary. 'Need to know' - great as sometimes I can be very needy and I am forced to fish. 'Good to know' - I don't know what is good when I don't need anything. I am a practicing self-respecting simpleton. - LimA

Hi Marblehead, You "reserve the right to be wrong" - OK with me so long as I am not affected. I "preserve my right that you do not wrong me or have me wronged" - OK with you? You "reserve the right to change my mind" - no problem with me if you are mindful that I am blissfully ignorant of any of your change(s). I "preserve my right to remain cool as other people's changes are none of my bloody business" - you want to change mindlessly? You can stick to your "reservations", while I hang on to my self "preservation"; otherwise your "peace and contentment" will see me in "pieces and contempt". I am not being confrontational but dualistically friendly as a fellow Taoist bummy. Jeers to your "reservations" and cheers to my "preservation". - LimA

Hi Mig, Perhaps a beginner will encounter confusion in anything at their commencement.. Take heart - you are apparently a better beginner than myself. I am a hopeless ethnic Oriental (O). Why? I think as an Occidental (Oc) devoid of my roots at the beginning. But I have hope - I am searching for myself through ancient eastern wisdom like Buddhism, Taoism and Hinduism. Used to think of O and Oc as a divide (O-Oc). Now - they are the flip-sides of the same coin (O/Oc). I am now at peace with myself as a proverbial coin. Only have to sort myself out internally through learning which is lifelong. When it comes to learning, there is not a perfect given that suits everyone as we are all at varied starting points. So know yourself and learn yourself - best with friends. - LimA

Hi Marblehead, You are a wise teacher. Instead of giving me fish, I have to fish for myself. Will test myself.

Hi Marblehead, Thank you for answering on Roger's behalf. It's a pity. I had sent an earlier response (of some length) to Roger but it disappeared when I clicked 'post'. In the next instance an offline message appeared. Can recover the message? - LimA

Hello ‘teamdialectics’, I find your ‘philosophy vs religion’ Taoist divide something close to my own heart. When you use the word ‘western’, I assume that you have ‘eastern’ in mind – another divide. How about the ‘pragmatism vs idealism’ divide , and you find the answers for yourself by asking around – like what you are doing now? Best, LimA

Hi Roger, Thank you. Please advise what is meant by 'imo'. - LimA

Apology, no offence intended; but pun intended. Seminal cheers! = Pivotal/ground-breaking cheers! I like to play with words. It can make the edging process more creative.