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panta rhei (πάντα ῥεῖ) "everything flows" (Heraclitus)

‘grandiosity’ & ‘depression’ are two sides of the same coin. No worries, you will find the middle way. Be well.

There’s a button top right, “See their activity”, click on that. Then on the left you can click on “Topics” or “Posts”.

Yes. Reminded me of this quote: ”It’s not to say that these things didn’t haunt me, because they did. I just stopped them from haunting my son’s childhood. He was 37 when he finally learned the full story. … During that phone call, … he kept repeating ‘you were so normal’ … To me, this was one of my greatest accomplishments in life.” (she survived an attack by Ted Bundy)

I’m in the same country.

The 3 dantien do correspond with the 3 basic chakras. Yes, the chakras in a female body rotate anti-clockwise, and in the male body, clockwise.

Indeed. Like the first line of the DDJ. If the Dao cannot be expressed, then “who would write a useless book”! https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55433-do-you-need-to-learn-chinese/?do=findComment&comment=1022024 https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55124-you-and-wu-in-chapter-one/?do=findComment&comment=1014660

It’s my own words, it’s what happened in my own life.

@salaam123 you might be on the mystical path (step 1 - connection with God from the head; step 2 - the abyss, connection gone; step 3 - connection with God from the whole body).

@Taoist Texts do you think this is true?

Some quotes of Jung mentioning the devil in this blog https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/02/02/lucifer-2/ Yes, very true in my experience.

@DaoForest A very impressive background indeed. Welcome to the forum. HSK = it’s the Chinese proficiency tests. Level 6 = being fluent.

“We three, we're all aloneLiving in a memoryMy echo, my shadow, and me” https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/931-what-are-you-listening-to/?do=findComment&comment=1026663

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Exactly.

Ime yin and yang both, equally disappear in total integration; it’s wuji again.

Ime integration of the shadow ends in ignition into star form; which is without separation again, wuji, the cycle restarts.

I agree. Yes. It’s the yin side. Yes, ime it’s the same thing.

Exactly. Yes. And willpower always fails as the undesirable behaviour comes from the shadow (which willpower is unaware of). Exactly.

Yes, wuji (no-thing-ness) brings forth taiji (i.e. yin and yang come into existence simultaneously). wuji 無極 wu2 ji2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuji_(philosophy) taiji 太極 tai4 ji2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji_(philosophy) Yes, 中 氣 以 為 和 zhōng qì yǐ wéi hé - blending the two primordial essences, creates harmony. (Ch 42) I agree. But I better refer you to TT on this, as he knows a lot more about it. E.g. … [the goal of alchemy is] to join with the dao. in the process the yin is not shed, on the contrary it is gained …” https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/55079-deleted/?do=findComment&comment=1021390

No.

The asking was perfectly alright by me. What I do not like is the quoting of a post that already was deleted.

Exactly, that’s what I thought. So I deleted my post as irrelevant.

And I expect people to have the courtesy to not quote what already had been deleted.

He looks very high spirited in his picture. So clearly he monitors his spirit levels.