kpodhayski

I was hoping I would find some Daoists here, and maybe there are, but I do not like the company you keep, so I am leaving. You allow people here who act in a way that is not representative of the Dao. All these fake, "magic" people trying to boost their ego or their wallet with silly parlor tricks that take advantage of mentally weak people, ha! The Dao is hidden, people are confused, I wait for your return. Love you, mean it, goodbye, K

Blah blah blah. chi this qi that.

Ha, oh, please, explain....

I do not explain the tricks, I just know that are tricks. I can think of several ways however, all it takes is the two to be in collusion. James Randi was better at exposing you fools than I am:

How do you know I am not self righteous? Ha! And what does acceptance have to do with learning? Because I disagree with you you think I do not accept you? Maybe if you accept me you can learn something from me!

I make fun of these people because they are doing harm to the innocent. You are judging me on my compassion! Ha!

They tried to turn Wonton into a dualist like them (lickety / split) by making him give importance the five senses. They did not understand where wonton's kindness came from. They thought it came from his humanity but it actually came from the Dao. When they drilled the holes in him he went away from the Dao and died. Many people mistake Wu Wei for humanity, and to copy it they drill holes in their head or practice Tai Chi.

Agreed! There is so much lost just reading someones thoughts.

Sigh... I tolerate non-daoists, those people still deluded, and I wait for their return. To the little girl who wants to be accepted, I will try to teach her the Dao because she does not understand it yet. I will read her 'Horses's Hoofs' as a betime story. But here in a forum of Daoists, some who say they are such masters they can perform unbelievable feats...I will point out the diversion from the Dao, not only to save the little girl from falling victim to you, but to help you on the way to the Dao as well. Did you come here to be accepted? Am I rejecting anyone? Or an I rejecting what they write? And you say there is no carbon copy of me, yet you want me to be non-judgemental just like you?! Your rightousness is as useful as a sixth toe! Some Chaung Tzu: "A ligament uniting the big toe with the other toes and an extra finger may be natural growths, but they are more than is good for use. Excrescences on the person and hanging tumours are growths from the body, but they are unnatural additions to it. There are many arts of benevolence and righteousness, and the exercise of them is distributed among the five viscera; but this is not the correct method according to the characteristics of the Tâo. Thus it is that the addition to the foot is but the attachment to it of so much useless flesh, and the addition to the hand is but the planting on it of a useless finger. (So it is that) the connecting (the virtues) with the five viscera renders, by excess or restraint, the action of benevolence and righteousness bad, and leads to many arts as in the employment of (great) powers of hearing or of vision."

I poked my head in that sub forum a few times but I like sharing the Dao in living examples. And I do not care if Chuang was judgmental or not. Who are you? Confuscious? What is with all the morality? But to paint it with more complexity, I am not judging, I am being discerning, and I am doing so with people talking about the Dao. You would call me two-faced if you saw me talking to people who do not pretend to understand the teachings.

Yes! Where were you last week my friend?!

Ha! Yes! That is what I shall do! Post videos of myself with my hands magically pushing hundreds of people along a sidewalk! I could have my own temple in no time!

Lineage? You are right, I have none. Learning? That I have none of either. Scams an frauds, yes, there are a few here. Starjumper thinks he can move people without touching them, and stages a trick video to use the immature and those fulled with desire to help him finish building his house. And Eric who thinks leverage, resonance, and weight displacement are things not taught to every senior in High School. I will continue to make fun of these silly people.

"Those who would correct their nature by means of the vulgar learning, seeking to restore it to its original condition, and those who would regulate their desires, by the vulgar ways of thinking, seeking thereby to carry their intelligence to perfection, must be pronounced to be deluded and ignorant people." -Chuang Tzu

Stosh, too eclectic? You are too nice. The other responses, they tell me all I need to know.

All these teachers wanting you to become healthier, more powerful, or magical; what sage of the Dao has ever taught that? If you enjoy Tai chi, that is fine, but it is no different than playing the flute or washing the dishes in regard to the Dao. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Yes, like the law of gravity, which is how I was using the word law. The Dao does not flow. Common misconception. Think of the Dao as the patterns in a terrain. When rain falls on the terrain it follows a certain pattern. That pattern reveals the terrain (Dao), but it is not the terrain (Dao). so yo can flow with the Dao, as water flows down hill. You get that? These guys explain it well. Check it out at about 3:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaULzIYPZf8 so you can act in a way that is not in accordance to the Dao or against the Dao. Lao Tzu says; "That which goes against the Tao comes to an early end." Whenever you are not in a state of Wu Wei you go against the Dao. When you do you are aligned with the Dao. And "Let the kingdom be governed according to the Tâo, and the manes of the departed will not manifest their spiritual energy." Chuang Tzu brings it up several times; "The ancients who regulated the Tâo nourished their faculty of knowledge by their placidity, and all through life abstained from employing that faculty in action;-- they must be pronounced to have (thus also) nourished their placidity by their knowledge." " They left the Tâo, and substituted the Good for it, and pursued the course of Haphazard Virtue." Not only can we go against the Dao, it can be lost and hidden! "When the Tâo was lost, its Characteristics appeared. When its Characteristics were lost, Benevolence appeared. When Benevolence was lost, Righteousness appeared. When Righteousness was lost, Ceremonies appeared. Ceremonies are but (the unsubstantial) flowers of the Tâo, and the commencement of disorder."

This part, you are mistaken. I did not say it disproved Tai chi, I said it did not prove it was the Tai chi. Scientists use double blind studies to negate magical thinking.

Sorry, aligned with, as opposed to in line with. Following the path of water. Keeping to your true nature. Meaning anything that attempts to work against the laws of the Dao. Like Tai Chi.

No, I do not laugh at the Dao, only at Tai Chi. Your own view is worthless.

Who said I do not know Tai Chi? I practiced it once and I laughed the whole time! Why bother talking with someone who does not understand the metaphor of Chaung Tzu's Three swords? You think he needed a real sword? Ha! https://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu3.html#30

Ha! Is that the Donald J Trump Translation? Horrible! Here are some others: Legge: Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see. Suzuki Therefore it is said: " He who desireless is found The spiritual of the world will sound. But he who by desire is bound Sees the mere shell of things around." Goddard: Therefore not to desire the things of sense is to know the freedom of spirituality; and to desire is to learn the limitation of matter. Love is a four letter word! Yes, to be the living dead, that is the goal! Go ahead, do what you like, but it is not in line with the Dao and it is not Daoism.

I know, her Wu Wei kicks ass!

Ha! She is beating all your Tai Chi asses!

Ha! Good!