wandelaar
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The reason why a person who only has qi in his lower abdomen can't understand the WuZenPian
wandelaar replied to awaken's topic in Daoist Discussion
I think it would work up to a certain point. When a person/thing/situation upsets one to such an extend that it becomes impossible to meditate, to relax or to concentrate on other matters than it's best to (temporarily) avoid the person/thing/situation. But as one spiritually matures it should gradually become easier to tolerate obnoxious persons/things/situations without loosing one's cool. I personally haven't advances that far, and still use the Ignore List to block the nonsensical messages of a few Bums. -
Looking for a new teacher/school after Healing Tao
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Yes - better to split off this discussion about the renaming of D.C. Lau.- 47 replies
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Looking for a new teacher/school after Healing Tao
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Penguin and Random House are respectable publishers, so why did they change D.C.Lau's name? -
Looking for a new teacher/school after Healing Tao
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https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/248080/darrell-d-lau/ Strange...! -
Looking for a new teacher/school after Healing Tao
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Inderdaad ben ik een Nederlander. I find it confusing when a scholar who is generally known as "D.C. Lau" is suddenly and for no apparent reason called "Darrell D Lau" on Amazon and at other sites.- 47 replies
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It says "D.C. Lau". I have no idea why the guy is suddenly called "Darrell D Lau" on Amazon and at other sites. -
Looking for a new teacher/school after Healing Tao
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Please look at the title page of the preview. ;-) -
Looking for a new teacher/school after Healing Tao
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Darrell Lau?? Is that the same guy as D.C. Lau? -
Source: https://www.davidpublisher.com/Public/uploads/Contribute/5ea1435f0cb4e.pdf (p.104) So the Guodian "Lao tzu" is assumed to be brush-written. Which leaves the question what pre-writing brush characters Hoff is talking about...
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I have been very busy with my old bicycle. I had a flat tire, but it turned out to be impossible to patch the tire. So I bought a new tire, but then I discovered that several spokes of the wheel were snapped. As it was already a worn out bicycle I decided to buy another cheap secondhand bike, but as it turned out there's a lot of work to do on that one before I can safely use it. Happily I'm free tomorrow, so I can further "refurbish" the bike. - So, as you will understand the article had to wait... ;-)
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There still remains one point on which Hoff just might be correct: the possibly different meanings of the original characters as compared to the traditional characters in which they are usually transcribed.
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That shows that the DIO transcripts are about as good or bad as Henricks' transcripts. But Hoff claims that the original characters often have different meanings than the traditional characters in which they are usually transcribed and that those different meanings have been ignored by all western scholars before him. So Hoff would probably regard the transcription on the DIO site as equally doubtful. - I'm playing the Devil's Advocate here. ;-)
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Yes, that is better than Hoff. But how are we to know how good or bad the DIO transcription is? What sources and reasoning's have been used to arrive at this particular transcription? What are the qualifications of the author of the DIO site?
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I guess that book is in Chinese...?
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Yes - I like to see it.
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Hopefully I will read it this evening...
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Haha! That's the same article that I linked to earlier. But I have to admit that I still have to read it myself.
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Maybe I will buy the book from the link, if that indeed contains pictures of the original characters...
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Was the book with the original characters this book? https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-bamboo-texts-of-guodian/9200000004725749/
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Why do you even quote Kroll's Dictionary if you don't care what the book says...
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I would have translated "He empties their hearts" with a note that for the Chinese of those times the heart was seen as the centre of intellectual and emotional activity. But as for westerners the heart is not seen as the centre of intellectual activity apparently Henricks prefers to use the word "mind" here so as to avoid the possible confusion. The drawback is that this doesn't do full justice to the emotional aspect of the phrase.
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@treebuffalo Thank you very much. My own impression of the book from reading the preview was the same. Didn't he mention any dictionary or internet site as a source for the supposed earlier meanings of the characters that as he claims were ignored by all scholars before him?
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PWT?
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Yes - the modern New Age form of Taoism is a form of "ietsism". However in the TTC several qualities of Tao are described, and the sage in taking notice of those qualities doesn't waste his time and energy on trying to achieve the impossible. Hence old school philosophical Taoism does go beyond modern day ietsism. I'm not going to describe those qualities of Tao here, one would do better to read the TTC oneself to see that the story doesn't end at chapter 1. ;-)