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Everything posted by Daniel
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang–Lao https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Yinfujing
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Or... you don't know how to "use" both. Chin-Dahn: Free-Online with a Google Account: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25130199?read-now=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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What do you think of this? See attached? Gold and cinnabar used for alchemy together. It represented a unique unity. Read the summary at the end. References are provided. It's a good source, isn't it? Cinnabar.pdf
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Might as well, right? 374-377.
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... all teasing, no pleasing? Which book or books would you recommend for Zuowang? Something advanced?
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I hear you, but, without the sensory feedback how does one distinguish between dreaming or not? Between delusional and not? Between hallucinating and not? To me, it's the same problem. It sounds like an error prone technique. The human animal has evolved such that the sensory feedback is highly accurate. While I acknowledge that bias, preference, and especially expectation, are shaping the interpretation of sensory feedback, at the same time I cannot ignore that messing with it, for lack of better words, without a known good reliable credible replacement, fail-over technique, is trading one problem for a whole host of others. "The devil you know is better, than the devil you don't know?" And since I've experienced the same thing without doing the reversing of the senses, I'm needing a bit more incentive and a lot more information. But that's me. Just me. Yes. I like life. I'm perfectly happy returning, if that's my destiny. Especially if I lay a nice foundation for my return. Aren't the immortals often written about as angry and frustrated with their lack of a physical body? The malicious ones are described insistent on finding a physical host? I have always been confused by the the desire for humans to escape this bountiful existence if we can co-exist in both realms... simultaneously.
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I just ordered it. It'll be here in a week, but I'm traveling the last part of August. Is this what you're looking at? Ja De Meyer 2006?
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Therefore, without Po, all that's left is imagination? So. How does a person filter out truth from fiction without Po and only Hun?
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Wow. OK. Good to know. Can you post a link to the reference?
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Are you assuming that all "learning" is accumulating po? If so, why?
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Good. The state of Zuowang. Keep that in mind, please. Now let's refer to the book by Livia Kohn: Sitting in Oblivion - The Heart of Daoist Meditation. Livia Kohn is the author of the entry on Zuowang in the Encyclopedia of Daoism. Page 102: Both gold and cinnabar simultaneously not one or the other.
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Shedding shedding a continuous process an ongoing action
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I disagree. And I'm not sure how anyone can be so certain about a negative assertion of this magnitude. ? Isn't it more accurately written: "I don't know how it can be practiced without first sealing the senses." ?
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No. Originally the date was 2300-2000. Then, this date was made more specific: 2150-1700. That's not a major shift. The article is describing the challenges of carbon dating. Do you see it? The carbon dating for the archeological evidence in support of the 2300-2000 range is conflicting and less reliable. The article is reporting new evidence with more reliable carbon dating. The beginning of the iron age is not the same as the dating the conception of ideas or the construction of a religion. Apples =/= Oranges
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No. You're adding context to what I wrote.
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It's perfect. Thank you. I'll read and review what you've brought. If I have questions, I'll send you a message. My objections have all been cleared.
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The dating of archeological evidence is TAQ, "The latest beginning". Archeological evidence cannot be used to determine the date when an idea or a religion was conceived or constructed. Later discoveries can push the date backwards, but not forwards. For example: if there is archeological evidence that Judaism became popular in 200BCE, that is the latest date, but it could have been earlier. If at some point new archeological evidence is discovered and dated to 100 BCE. That doesn't change anything, because there's earlier archeological evidence from 200BCE. The latest beginning is still 200 BCE. However, if archeological evidence is discovered from 400 BCE, the latest beginning shifts backwards. The latest beginning is now, after this discovery, 400BCE, but it could be earlier. That's TAQ. It's how all archeological dating is utilized. It's very simple. But the YouTubers ignore it or simply don't know what they're talking about, and prefer to make their money off of the clicks.
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Here. Let me help you. Nungali. What I wrote is above, it was in response to what you had written. The capability to take any form is by definition formless. It is not defined by any distinct form. It is formless. And. This is included in omnipotence. Neither did I. The concept includes the capability to take on any form. That's all I claimed.
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History from that era is sketchy at best.
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Neither did I.