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Righto. Succes ermee. : )

兔髓 White light only. It must be the #3 yellow chakra then, which fits the position of the LDT.

魂 云 yun2 - cloud 鬼 gui3 - ghost 魄 白 bai2 - white 鬼 gui3 - ghost 魂 hún - soul. third-eye (#6) chakra light ‘qi’ 魄 pò - body. root /orange (#1&2) chakra wave energy ‘qi’ 烏肝 wu1 gan1 - crow, inner feelings. Multicoloured light 兔髓 tu4 sui3 - rabbit, reproductive innermost. White light only 黃 庭 經 Huang2 Ting2 Jing1 - Yellow Court Scripture

烏肝 & 兔髓 = 魂 & 魄 ~~~ The cultivation of the ‘hun & po’ in the Huang Ting Jing 黃 庭 經 講 的 魂 魄 修 煉， Huáng tíng jīng jiǎng de hún pò xiū liàn, is the same as the cultivation of the ‘crow & rabbit’ in Wuzhen. 跟 悟 真 篇 講 的 烏 兔 修 煉，是同樣的 gēn wù zhēn piān jiǎng de wū tù xiūliàn, shì tóngyàng de ~~~ Hun/crow is like the cloud and mist of the northern-lights 魂者，云也 如同北極光之雲霧，烏肝也 Po/rabbit is only white light 魄者，白也 如同玉兔之白光，兔髓也 Also see https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53618-the-reason-why-a-person-who-only-has-qi-in-his-lower-abdomen-cant-understand the-huang-tingjing/?do=findComment&comment=983400 and the post above it.

How did you get on with the academic paper? * https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53660-benjamin-hoffs-tao-te-ching/?do=findComment&comment=982333

Mooi zo. : )

Hoff imo has been entirely discredited. See https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53660-benjamin-hoffs-tao-te-ching/?do=findComment&comment=983300

Henricks is a very highly esteemed Sinologist. : )

I checked about 20 of their DDJ transcripts and they are identical * to Henricks. * some exceptions, very rare indeed and mostly explainable

There is an English version that has all the strips pictured. It is on on DIO. It has the Guodian characters. And it has the English transcripts and their meanings next to it. See https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53660-benjamin-hoffs-tao-te-ching/?do=findComment&comment=983348

Classical Chinese does not have periods or commas, * these are part of the English interpretations. It uses a different system for marking pauses in the text, e.g. characters like 也 and patterns of repetition. * exceptions, see intro Henricks MWD

Could one connect it with the Hindu chakra system? E.g. like something like this: KETER -> chakra #7 (crown chakra) BINA & CHOCHMA -> chakra #6 (third eye chakra) DA’AT -> chakra #5 (throat chakra) DIN & CHESED -> chakra #4 (heart chakra) TIF’ERET -> chakra #3 (yellow chakra) HOD & NECACH -> chakra #2 (orange chakra) JESOD & MALCHIT -> chakra #1 (root chakra)

It’s pretty amazing really, quite a few of the characters have hardly changed at all over 2300 years! E.g.the first two characters of Ch 2 , 天下

‘Dao Is Open’ ( http://www.daoisopen.com/index.html ) has the English too. E.g. Ch 2 at http://www.daoisopen.com/A6toA9Chapters64b37632.html and http://www.daoisopen.com/A9toA10Chapters232.html

I had a 10 second read and realised it is way beyond my level.

Good to see you happy. So you did, lol https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53660-benjamin-hoffs-tao-te-ching/?do=findComment&comment=982333

@wandelaar I found this review https://www.academia.edu/7898095/Review_Article_of_The_Bamboo_Texts_of_Guodian_A_Study_and_Complete_Translation_By_Scott_Cook

Gosh, yes, I was tempted to buy it, it looks really interesting. But I think it discuses Confucian books. My interest is in DDJ and I think that’s in volume II.

When I look at the transcripts the characters give me an entirely different meaning, that’s very simple, easy to understand and good practical advice.

I think bits are basically unintelligible.

“impractical”. Hmm … could you say a bit more about that?

It’s like they all copy each other, they are all in the same range; Hoff too (based on the preview only).

Seeing the link above, me thinks ‘so much for the Hoff’.

Moved to my PPD https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53685-posts-to-think-about/?do=findComment&comment=983286

Oh thank you so much for your ‘like’. I am sitting here crying for the dead, then they are being blamed for it. Thought I was ranting a bit, thought this is for me worth getting banned for.