Cobie

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  1. You and Wu in Chapter One

    Exactly. Thatā€™s why I wrote:
  2. You and Wu in Chapter One

    If this was so, there would be no point in reading the DDJ. So by inductive reasoning I conclude these are mistranslations.
  3. You and Wu in Chapter One

    How do ā€œdesirelessnessā€ and ā€œdesirefullnessā€ ā€œtogether produce all differently named thingsā€?
  4. You and Wu in Chapter One

    Thanks for the update.
  5. Welcome to the forum.
  6. You and Wu in Chapter One

    (Just joking, itā€™s clear what you mean) What type of ā€œfringeā€?
  7. You and Wu in Chapter One

    (my highlight) ā€¦ what/who are ā€œthese twoā€? Are they ā€œdesirelessnessā€ and ā€œdesirefullnessā€?
  8. You and Wu in Chapter One

    Provided it fits the characters, itā€™s imo ok to make a new interpretation.
  9. I think this thread does not comply with the spirit of the ruling. Personally Iā€™d like it closed. I have reported it.
  10. You and Wu in Chapter One

    So the whole thing is a red herring.
  11. You and Wu in Chapter One

    Thatā€™s another author.
  12. Happy Equinox!

    ... Possibly impressive (I so havenā€™t got a clue about these things ) P.S. pls donā€™t explain for me, my brain got cracked (by trying to understand the DDJ). I will now need to rest the rest of my life.
  13. You and Wu in Chapter One

    All scripts on DIO use ē•°å http://www.daoisopen.com/downloads/CC1.pdf And so do you:
  14. You and Wu in Chapter One

    Whatā€™s the ā€œnormal oneā€?
  15. You and Wu in Chapter One

    No. https://ctext.org/dao-de-jing?searchu=ē•°å
  16. You and Wu in Chapter One

    This site has the origin of the character https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ē•°
  17. deleted

    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 itā€™s only a ā€˜hypothesisā€™. Righto.
  18. You and Wu in Chapter One

    imo ē•°å Is two separate characters. According to Sinologists ā€œcompoundsā€ are rare in Classical Chinese.
  19. deleted

    Yes they do, look ā€¦ energy stored in the dantien:
  20. You and Wu in Chapter One

    Sorry. Moved to the ā€˜deletedā€™ thread.
  21. You and Wu in Chapter One

    I called myself a quarter-Taoist, as I like the DDJ very much but stick to my own tradition.