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It made me laugh, hence my like. But to be fair to @awaken I totally understand the need to ignore some people. Due to time restrictions, I too have to set priorities and skip certain people/threads.

Count me out, I have little interest in Buddhism. I’m not knowledgeable enough to qualify as “brainwashed”.

Yes exactly, that’s why I’m trying to read the DDJ from characters.

I think so too.

Imo it’s quite difficult to master the art of talking to people that disagree with one, but worth learning.

I did not say that.

There are as many roads as there are people.

Imo, you are on a slippery slope to extremism.

That’s what I have been observing.

Righto. What does it mean to you, why did you chose it as your username?

I was referring to:

That’s correct. In the grammar at the time of Laozi: - 弗 implied an object - what could be deduced from the context was mostly left out So the literal translation is - the wise man does not speak ‘something’ - and the context allows interpreting the ‘something’ as ‘nonsense’ here.

Welcome 無虎 . What does your username mean?

易經 yi4 jing1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/易經 ITjing number system & the 5 elements Picture of the ITjing number system: It’s called 河 圖 - Yellow River chart 河 he2 - Yellow River 圖 tu2 - chart http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Daoists/hetuluoshu.html ~~~ Why is the (ITjing number system) picture called after 河 , the Yellow River?

1 S water 水 ; 2 N fire 火 ; 3 W wood 木 ; 4 E metal 金 ; 5 centre- earth 土

I look forward to learn more about your insights in esoteric knowledge. Yes, same here. : ) How do you call it? Welcome to the forum, enjoy.

Hi Ryan, I look forward to learn more about your work on alchemy. Welcome to the forum, enjoy.

Happy to have you here! Welcome to the forum, enjoy.

You came to the right place! Welcome to the forum, enjoy.

Re https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53332-whats-a-mystic-and-how-to-become-one/?do=findComment&comment=984712 I wholeheartedly disapprove of SilentHand’s slandering of Islam. @SilentHand Please do not misquote me. I was talking about mystics being receptive. See https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53332-whats-a-mystic-and-how-to-become-one/?do=findComment&comment=984614 I personally respect Islam.

My religion is kindness. (Dalai Lama)

Removed, I posted it twice accidentally

I think so too. : )

Same here. Learned it in the seventies. If someone wants to have sex with you and/or take your money then it’s not a ‘teacher’, just a con artist.

Wow, thank you very much for all this wonderful info. You are a mine of information.