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(Google) Zhurong (祝融 zhùróng), is also the name of the Chinese rover on Mars.

Wow, very nice indeed to see e.g. the fruits, pineapple and lily flowers. If I may make one suggestion, make sure to keep the focus on your Guan Yin statue. E.g. keep more space open around her. What’s the little bowl in front of her, is it for water? If so, I’d choose a smaller bowl and put it aside of her on her right side (not in front where it obscures the view of her). And I would stand her on a flat surface, not a plate (that’s for placing offerings). But you create it your way, and it’s great as it is.

This is indeed a most ingenious way to read Ch 38.

Interesting. Could you please elucidate how you came to this translation?

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How did you know?

Yippee. Me too!

Awareness is flow.

“Have you ever been blessed by someone?” (thread title). I received the blessing of the Dalai Lama in 1994.

Problems come from putting on the outside what’s actually on the inside.

Reminds me of the Merovingian in the Matrix movie.

“Cro Magnon skull shows that our brains have shrunk” https://phys.org/news/2010-03-cro-magnon-skull-brains-shrunk.html

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There are myriad differences, none of which end talk about reunification; Filioque does.

The ‘papal infallibility’ wasn’t and isn’t reason of the schism. The problem is the ‘Filioque’.

Sure. But papal infallibility started much later, 1870.

The Pope is only for the Western Church; the Eastern Church has Patriarchs. Filioque (‘and from the Son’, re Holy Spirit) is the main difference.

In contrast, anti-Semitism and anti-Islamism are usually not so openly professed.

Hi Andreas. Welcome to the forum.

Thank you very much for elucidating, it is a very ingenious translation. However, I prefer to use the oldest available text (MWD A). Your version does not comply with MWD A, which: 1j splits up the characters in a different way: 道 可 道 也 非 恆 道 也 名 可 名 也 非 恆 名 也 http://www.daoisopen.com/downloads/CC1.pdf 2) uses 恆 恆 was the name of a later emperor. The taboo on the use of the emperor’s name, resulted in the substitution 常

Could you please post your current translation of the characters of the first line? (I posted my latest version in the post above).

@Apech I have put you on my ignored users list.

sex and money A real master does not have sex with you, full stop. A real master does not demand much money, just the normal entertainer fees.

The guard at the gate asked Laozi to write down his teachings, in reply, Laozi started with: 道 可 道 也 - As for the teachings that I [Laozi] can express, 非 恆 道 也 - they go against the customary teachings. 名 可 名 也 - As for the morals that I [Laozi] can express, 非 恆 名 也 - they go against the customary morality.

This picture seems to have a chakra! 內 經 圖 nei4 jing1 tu2 - inner scripture picture picture at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neijing_Tu