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Curiosity killed the cat. I said, impressive ignored calendars. lol, there’s nothing ticked off, is there? I hope now you all know that all my deleted posts are totally boring and can be forgotten about.

A great achievement. Great metaphor, imo “black slug” for Yin and “crossing the road” integration of Yin with Yang. I agree. I agree.

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Definitely. And I don’t really care what you look like; it’s actions that speak to me. E.g. I once deleted a post and you immediately offered to remove your quote of it. I appreciated that a lot (some don’t even remove the quote, even when I ask them to). So I think you are a very kind person.

Hi João (the Latin derived from the Hebrew Yohanan, meaning “graced by God. @Daniel will know more about it). Wonderful you are interested in “Daodejing and ZhuangzI”. No need to watch first, jump right in. Looking forward to your posts. Welcome to the forum.

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No you don’t

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Thank you for replying.

(I don’t have time to read all that’s on the link) could you please tell me why it is thought that “Ziliang successfully transcended”?

This is from page 193 (of the link TT gave, googlebooks ) See above, “In Ziliang’s records there was a recepy for the Ninefold Perfected Jade-Liquor Elixer, presumably this is what he used”. (page 194)

“In Chinese history, the alchemical practice of concocting elixirs of immortality from metallic and mineral substances began circa the 4th century BCE in the late Warring states period, reached a peak in the 9th century CE Tang dynasty when five emperors died, and, despite common knowledge of the dangers, elixir poisoning continued until the 18th century Qing dynasty.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemical_elixir_poisoning

“… everyone … was shocked and dismayed” (page 193 of your link googlebooks ) “… he took the elixer”. (page 193) ”… this young man’s … preparing the drug that would … translate him to the … postmortem position…” (page 189) “In Ziliang’s records there was a recepy for the Ninefold Perfected Jade-Liquor Elixer, presumably this is what he used”. (page 194) “ … Tao's disciple Zhou Ziliang whom Shangqing deities reportedly instructed to prepare a poisonous elixir and commit suicide in order to achieve immortality.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemical_elixir_poisoning

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Your article is from 2016. The United Nations estimates Islamic State currently only has about 10,000 fighters. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/with-explosions-iran-islamic-state-attempts-comeback-2024-01-05/ To put this in perspective, almost a quarter of the world population is Muslim i.e. almost 2 billion ( 2,000,000,000 ).

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“I'd explain it to you, but I don't have any crayons.”

So to whom do they belong according to the Chinese leaders (I know you think they are Confucian)?

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What happened last year? That’s why ‘May you live in interesting times’ is a curse.

He was a Dutch Sinologist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_van_Gulik This is a paper about van Gulik’s Judge Dee stories https://studenttheses.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/20.500.12932/8/Zhu 5110742.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y