Cobie
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Hello AKD. That’s a great introduction, thank you. Your quest resonates with me. I recognise a lot in what you say, I too knew already as a child that I had no interest in “life’s to-do list”. I too find “reactivity” a great teacher, and am interested in “own experience” (my own or the experience of others). Welcome to the forum. : )
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I have the same problem.
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Brainhalves?
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“[T]he electric incitement of Eros“ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230106451_2?noAccess=true
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Characters often have more than one meaning, depending on ‘context’. Imo the characters do support reading it as ‘advice to the reader’.
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I gather from this convo that “qi” / “chi” is ‘sexual arousal’?
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Empty your mind” as referring to me, the reader. A simple bit of advice from a self-help book. That’s how I read it. : )
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Is this not interfering with nature which would be rather un-daoist ?
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Clearly not.
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traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), system of medicine at least 23 centuries old https://www.britannica.com/science/traditional-Chinese-medicine Laozi 604 BC - 499 BC
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“… Laozi, and Zhang Daoling as well as Zhuangzi. … Although these three are credited with the creation of alchemy, there is no definitive proof to suggest … that they were responsible for its creation.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemy
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Oh, I had thought TCM preceded Laozi. Do you mean TCM started with the developing of the ‘internal’ alchemy?
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Agreed. Thanks for elucidating. : )
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Religious persecution by “zealous Taoist” emperor Wuzong: “The religious persecution reached its height in the year 845 CE, ultimately confiscating the Buddhist temple properties, destroying 4,600 Buddhist temples and 40,000 shrines, and removing 260,500 monks and nuns from the monasteries.[9] Emperor Wuzong's reasons for doing so were not purely economic. A zealous Taoist, Wuzong considered Buddhism a foreign religion that was harmful to Chinese society.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wuzong_of_Tang
