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Hi JH12. Welcome to the forum.

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“It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics as a kind of virtue ethics, rather than as a kind of care ethics.“ https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810583

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@Taoist Texts Almost all DDJ translations use the Wang Bi characters (e.g. ctext.org, James Legge), and Wang B was a Confucian. Do you think the Guodian was also written by a Confucian?

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The ancients placed the LDT in the 胃 , which literally means ‘stomach’ but was also used for ‘womb’.

[I haven’t read the thread] No need to give it up! Laozi in Ch 67 says “compassion” is the first of his three treasures. Maybe the DDJ is more Confucianist than Taoist! Almost all DDJ translations use the Wang Bi characters (e.g. ctext.org, James Legge), and Wang B was a Confucian.

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Different terminology (Sankaras), but my experience is the same.

That was a smart move. I would not call it “karma”. But for you calling it karma works, so that’s great.

Circular reasoning.

With “figured out”, do you mean you remember it?

So you think you were abusive in your previous life?

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Deleted 3 posts, I do apologise.

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Isn’t Daoism supposed to be about finding a balance?

This is what’s in the dictionary: In the Kroll (see page X) (medieval) means that this meaning was not in use before the third century CE.

Hold on! Zen has it’s root in Chan, which (some say) came from the interaction between Mahāyāna Buddhism and Taoism! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Buddhism#:~:text=Some scholars have argued that,total fixation of the mind.