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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.

“they should have changed and didn't” Sure, blame the victim. It’s a disgusting thing to say. I lost loved ones to cancer. I don’t think it’s true. With the right biased set of questions you will get the result you crave. That mindset works only for the ‘worried well’ (fearful of disease and death but still in good health). Make yourself feel good, a bit more ‘cultivating’ and you will not get cancer, at the expense of the sick and dying. Anyone can get cancer, there are no psychological reasons, it’s just how life is. You will die too.

You are an absolute angel. Thank you very much.

This sounds similar to Western alchemy.

Cinnabar has a bright red colour.

Removed.

Cinnabar was one of the lethal remedies the preceding ‘external elixer’ was poisoning people with. The name then transferred to the next efforts to produce an ‘internal elixer’. Dan tien = 丹田 dan1 tian2 ‘dan’ means ‘pellet’ in this context and stood in general for a medicine, ‘elixer’. ‘tian’ means ‘field’, a metaphor for an area that work is done.