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In such a case, I quote the post and make it explicit.

Not at all. If I remember well, you are Indonesian from Singapore, now living in London.

I am very sorry. In my church too some people are ghastly like that, even though it goes against the RC faith. https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=58814 I’m very glad you are a happy semi-Taoist!

I think it was a big loss to the forum that Awaken had to be banned for being so rude. I did value some of her info, and also that she was from Taiwan (if I remember well). I’d hate the forum to be only Westerners.

In ancient China too, there were only 4 elements. The 5th ‘element’ was I, the observer, at the centre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Symbols#

How could I have forgotten to mention this excellent example:

Do you have time to do both, be a solo Daoist painter & do the Buddhist group (ignoring their art)?

Righto. Less confusing then to not quote my (apparently unrelated) post, but instead use the @Cobie thing.

I don’t understand the question. I made a post about my surprise to see that Pak Satrio has changed his profile picture.

What’s that black pointy thing, and what happened to @-ꦥꦏ꧀ ꦱꦠꦿꦶꦪꦺꦴ-

No, idk. But I did once read a Dutch book that argued very convincingly that Shakespeare was Flemish. And @awaken said the ancient Egyptians actually were the ancient Chinese Xia dynasty. Apparently the Egyptian river delta fits a description in an old Chinese script. I guess we all want to appropriate what we admire.

Hi. Welcome to the forum. Do you enjoy going to the Buddhist group? The painting sounds great, maybe you could post some of your paintings on the forum?

Re. “meaning field”, sorry, I mistranslated the Dutch word (betekenisveld); it’s actually ‘’semantic field’. Yes a Chinese character is an ideogram, a symbol representing an idea. Interesting that Indian languages are also quite like that.

Idk. But there’s Budai, the laughing Buddha (that’s not Gautama Buddha).

Welcome to the forum Starcadr. Imo you have set yourself an excellent goal. I hope the forum will be helpful to you, and also enjoyable.

Yes, especially in Classical Chinese, the meaning field was very wide, as they didn’t have many characters. Yes, I think it is. It took me a couple of years of fighting convos on OD with you, to finally start getting a little understanding.

Yes, what CD says in his post, my Chinese teacher of Mandarin told me too. Yes, a characters is not a word; it’s a ‘semantic field’. Yes, the fundamental principle underlying this is the concept of ‘harmony’. With this system there is flexibility. Exactly. For most speakers of a Germanic language (that includes English) all this is very hard to understand, as there’s no such concept in their language.

If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. (Mathew 10:14, NIV )

body odor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor#:~:text=One large study failed to,including those located in sweat.

Exactly. Oxygen gives our cells the ability to break down food in order to get the energy we need to survive.

Please remind me, what was your contextual point ?

Hi John. Welcome to the forum.

Terms get used by different people in different ways. Imo best to respect other people’s ideas even when they go against your own ideas about ‘facts’ and ‘checking’. Sometimes it’s best to stick to your own teacher and path, and just ignore the people that are on an entirely different path. Peace.

The traditional character for ‘qi’ is 氣 . The character has 2 components: 气 qi4 - air 米 mi3 - rice 气 + 米 —> 氣 air + rice —> qi oxygen + food —> energy