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The NT koine Greek often uses the same word, pneuma (πνεῦμα‎‎), for both soul and for spirit.

the signless concentration of the heart the “Immortal green spirit” in the Yellow Court Scripture [green is the heart chakra colour] Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God

“by using modern methods of historical and comparative linguistics, most linguists do not find evidence that Old Chinese was tonal. And the well-attested tones of Middle and Modern Chinese varieties are thought to have emerged later, rather than inherited from Old Chinese.” (https://www.quora.com/Did-ancient-Chinese-languages-have-tones)

possibly tones and various characters were added later to make the sounds more ‘polite’. E.g. 服務員 - waiter current tones/characters 服 fu2 - serve 務 wu4 - task 員 yuan2 - member same sounds with other tones/characters 夫 fu1 - man 無 wu2 - without 元 yuan2 - importance

Hi Branza. Wow that’s great, that the Wuji helped to get rid of some chronic back pain. Welcome to the forum.

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it brings to my mind ‘evolution theory’ by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace

Yes, I remember it being so for me as a child with my parents. But I think only emotionally abusive adults are like this.

@surrogate corpse I’d like to draw your attention to this post:

Surely that was Keanu Reeves.

“the brain's frontal lobe, especially the prefrontal cortex, isn't fully mature until around age 25. The development of the pre-frontal cortex of the frontal lobe allows us to process the pros and cons of a decision before it is made”

by not quoting scripture (what is Buddhist scripture called?)

“establish”? Lol. Hamid Bey was trained by Coptic Masters in Egypt during the early 1900s The Coptic Orthodox Church was established during the middle of the 1st century

I guess the teacher, seeing no spiritual potential in WLP at all, sent him packing. Yeah, exactly.

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Hi Deucoblian. Welcome to the forum. What does “ (33M) “ refer to?

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Exactly. That’s what Laozi said in DDJ Ch. 67, “我 有 三 寶 … 慈 … 儉 … 不敢為天下先 “

Thanks for the info.

Now that’s what I call a strange religion. Anybody care to explain the story?