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I used onenote to screenshot the pdf pages, ocr it to text, then pass it to a web filter to remove all line breaks, then passed it to a notepad filter to split all the text into sentences line by line for analysis. Took a few sec ^ ^ but before I figured that out, I did the same thing xD.

Night, they say the dreams are a way to prepare for death

You can't experience other's enlightenment: Not being enlightened before, how can you know if you want to or not want to be enlightened - it's 20/20. It's like rationalizing the state of death.

I think this is one of the most interesting chapters in the daodejing.

Enlightened beings make other chop wood :P.

After many restarts of reading the book, the best thing I found to do is to read the glossary first and organize all the concepts together (maybe on paper). That way, you wont be confused by what the book is saying. Also, skip the introduction and go straight to C1. Read the Intro after all the other chapters. Also, since Taoist yoga is incomplete, you have to look and compare in other texts.

Before enlightenment, chop wood. After enlightenment, chop wood.

Drops of water hit my head What is an umbrella? --- An an old one xD: Before enlightenment, carry water, chop wood. After enlightenment, carry water, chop wood.

One interpretation of why it is missing is because it was consumed as I so put. But some also attribute it to the entire middle pillar.

Ooh shiny.

Cosmic fart

The farther you go along your path, the less you keep track of your beliefs. Then, only Silence is left. One profound prayer in the Arbatel is to be free from unending human beliefs/infinite human opinions. There is truth in everyone's statements here.

I guess some people don't get my point: there is no way that you can prove such a thing. But, there are methods that people claim leads to experience of such a being, and in my western path, I use many models that access such a being. Real or not real is just a boolean value in the head that falls away against experience. It is Supreme Mystery. I am not attached to belief because it is a commodity I can change when I wish.

Id then say it doesn't matter if I'm right or wrong because I am not attached to belief.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-0HRs0FY2U

Ooh I like eye techniques. I know bewitching eyes, the evil eye, and sight. The first 2 I learned studying curses. How to charm and entrance through the eyes. How to harm through the eyes. I would say clairvoyance and the ability to see spirits is not directly linked to the 3rd eye. I know because my training involved refining my senses. I would say that the third eye is more like on your energy body, for advanced practices. Different cultures attach different functions to it.

Dark fluff

Its a different world nowadays, run by the same rules. Might is right. Except now, you can be punished for getting into a fight by the police. Any wicked intent is better left to the shadows.

I really do. Right now, Im digesting Taoist Yoga. Having no connection to these schools people are a part of, and knowing that books clearly have errors - Im reading through the book and organizing it's terms, instructions and main points. Then I go to the search bar and search up discussions on this books and people talking about their schools, etc. Having no teacher, I have to make judgement based on what they say about this cultivation, maybe I'll go evoke some angels to correct my mistakes or heal me when I make a mistake or help me prevent them. I'll see what works and what doesn't - wasn't there someone who fumbled in the dark to be the father of cultivation? And I'll use the personal practice and discussions in my considerations to distill a method from this book. Maybe start off a few of my own. I still have decades left for cultivation and I have my own western methods.

Valid point. Real or not real is only a boolean value existing in the minds of people.

Im gonna use hard physical workout and outer dissolving from BKF as the moving and standing components while using the distilled method from Taoist Yoga as the sitting component.

Hmmm thinking.

Rick and Morty "Don't think about it :P" You can never really prove the existence of something - you can only disprove. Human logic only works in false - not false logic. That is why science, not sciencism - the religion of science - has hypotheses and theories. On the record, we have not yet able to prove or disprove the existence of god or of the pasta monster god thingamjig.

It's just the author's bias. But real seekers can change their model of reality at whim. Such mental flexibility can break people's minds - holding contradictory thoughts in the same head ;). But the main point, as I take it of that statement is - The Dao the rabble call Dao is not the eternal dao. That means it exists outside of the limits of their comprehension. Because how can you speak it, the mystery? Humans call the named the mother of all things. But of the nameless???? A mystery ;).

^ Yup. Also, there is no point trying to concretely define reality. That is arrogance saying you know what it is - it's boundaries, where it ends and begins, etc.