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@Taoist Texts aren’t they?

I find it hard to see a connection between these quotes, and the later Confucianism that imposes all kinds of restrictions. Just like there’s Laozi-ism vs later Taoism, would you say there’s also Confucianism vs later Confused-ianism?

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Wuwei in the DDJ https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing/ens?searchu=无为

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@kakapo that’s just Juvenile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_(rapper)

@kakapo yes I knew that.

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He’s “young”, he’ll learn.

Exactly. Imo your post said it all: … “reasons” … [putting it here for emphasis]

Where do you see an overlap with Laoism? I thought the ethics were very different.

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經 jing1 - scripture. 道德經 - a book about morality’.

The DDJ is, like Confucianism, a virtue ethics.

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‘Those who know’ know ‘siddhis’ are internal, part of one’s own consciousness (subjective). But till one knows one cannot exclude anything. Some Westerners think ‘siddhis’ are external, part of the physical world (objective). No ‘sane & honest’ person has ever experienced such thing (being non-existent).

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