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  7. Qigong--Chinese breathing exercise

    Cobie replied to ChiDragon's topic in Healthy Bums

    @ChiDragon Very impressive, flows really gracefully.
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  9. Hello

    Cobie replied to Jebei's topic in Newcomer Corner

    Hi Jebei, welcome to the forum.
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  11. page xviii, “The Way in a sense is like a great womb …” page xix, “… Tao is a feminine reality and a maternal reality ...” Thanks for posting the characters.
  12. I was talking about the characters.
  13. Re. 玄 牝 玄 牝 I use the Henricks mawangdui book https://www.amazon.com/Lao-Tzu-Translation-Discovered-Ma-wang-tui/dp/0345370996 Henricks gives the MWD characters not as 玄 牝 玄 牝 but as 玄 = 牝 = And on page 94 he says these ‘= marks’ appear to be ‘ditto’ marks in the original. Same with 綿綿 . Henricks gives the characters as 綿 =
  14. Also: -/之 ; -/呵 ; -/亓 ; 勤/堇
  15. (my highlights) Not “only”; the wiki link says ‘often’. Possibly “that explains” it, but not necessarily. One cannot exclude the possibility that 胃 was not a partial character. It is possible 謂 was a later change made to the text.
  16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui_Silk_Texts http://www.daoisopen.com/downloads/CC6.pdf I always use the oldest available script. In the line used, MWD A had 1 gap but is otherwise equal to B.
  18. Throughout the whole of the DDJ, it uses the female as the metaphor.
  19. DDJ 6 (MWD B: 谷 神 不 死 是 胃 … gu3 shen2 bu4 si3 shi4 wei4 …). 胃 too is a euphemism for ‘womb’.

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    Cobie replied to Apech's topic in General Discussion

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  21. @Daniel what dictionary do you usually use?

  22. simplify

    Cobie replied to zerostao's topic in Daoist Discussion

    naked
  23. Which dictionary do you use?
  24. Are you sure this translates as ‘Dao’? 道 does not always mean ‘Dao’.
  25. Yes, I’m familiar with it, I had a thread about it on the Original Dao forum, and posted about it last month here on DB. The Chinese call it a wind box (橐籥 = 風箱 - wind box). English https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wind box I prefer this name to distinguish it from this I edited my above post to clarify the distinction.