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Everything posted by Cobie
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Exactly. Thatās why I wrote:
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If this was so, there would be no point in reading the DDJ. So by inductive reasoning I conclude these are mistranslations.
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How do ādesirelessnessā and ādesirefullnessā ātogether produce all differently named thingsā?
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Thanks for the update.
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First post, looking to have conversations about qigong
Cobie replied to Qigongjack's topic in Welcome
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(Just joking, itās clear what you mean) What type of āfringeā?
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(my highlight) ā¦ what/who are āthese twoā? Are they ādesirelessnessā and ādesirefullnessā?
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Provided it fits the characters, itās imo ok to make a new interpretation.
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Please Delete, Or Lock And Move To The Rabbit Hole
Cobie replied to kakapo's topic in The Rabbit Hole
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So the whole thing is a red herring.
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Thatās another author.
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... Possibly impressive (I so havenāt got a clue about these things ) P.S. pls donāt explain for me, my brain got cracked (by trying to understand the DDJ). I will now need to rest the rest of my life.
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All scripts on DIO use ē°å http://www.daoisopen.com/downloads/CC1.pdf And so do you:
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Whatās the ānormal oneā?
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No. https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing?searchu=ē°å
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This site has the origin of the character https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ē°
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Thanks, so no connection really. Righto, no need to explain further; I think Van Praag was doing a bit of wishful thinking. To do him justice, I just saw he does say in the book itās only a āhypothesisā. Righto.
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imo ē°å Is two separate characters. According to Sinologists ācompoundsā are rare in Classical Chinese.
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Yes they do, look ā¦ energy stored in the dantien:
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Sorry. Moved to the ādeletedā thread.
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I called myself a quarter-Taoist, as I like the DDJ very much but stick to my own tradition.