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Hi Emma. Welcome to the forum. Your ‘typo’ did make me laugh, pesky autocorrect.

Hi Aknaton. Welcome to the forum. What country are you from?

be just demons eh? I have accepted that it is unknowable.

another the next. Come to your senses. And it will be stable then.

Cord cutting not done? I'm the great white ninja. One with the universe.

Lots of info at http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Daoists/hetuluoshu.html

The numbers 1 to 5 are associated with the ‘Chinese 5-elements’ (五行): 水 (huo3) fire <~> the number 2. 火 (shui3) water <~> 1. 土 (tu3) earth/soil <~> 5. 木 (mu4) tree/wooden <~> 3. 金 (jin1) gold/metal <~> 4. Four of the ‘5-elements’ (五行) were shown at the four sides of the square. And the fifth element ( 土 earth, soil) is in the middle. Higher numbers take the position of the number minus multiples of 5: 1 and 6 are water; 2 and 7 are fire, etc ~~~ A modern one in a circle: ~~~ 五行: 五 wu3 - the number ‘5’; 行 xing2 - something like ‘movements’.

The ITjing number diagram (He Tu diagram) odd numbers are yang 陽 in white even numbers are yin 陰 in black It starts with 1 to 5 (consecutive numbers are opposite to each other); number 5 is in the middle. Then it repeats: 6=5+1; 7=5+2; 8=5+3; 9=5+4; 10= 5+5 (in the middle again) In the ITjing, South is on top of the diagram, North is at the bottom. East is at the left and West is at the right. ~~~ The number system used on a Daoist temple:

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Superman.

Hi, welcome to the forum.

Nice intro. Welcome to the forum.

Hi, welcome to the forum.

If you say so. 3. and 4. are superfluous (already included in 2.)

@Mark Foote why the ?

Body-body ... approach? The brain is part of the body.

wu2 ji2 starts at https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53664-origins-of-daoism/?do=findComment&comment=1000533 The Way of Virtue 道德 (DDJ) - The Way of Virtue “The title "Daodejing", with its status as a classic, was only first applied from the reign of Emperor Jing of Han (157–141 BC) onward.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching 經 jing1 < classic, foundational text … > I agree. Imo Dao = morality. DDJ, it literally means The Way of Virtue.

I think so, yes.

Nothing is as good as your own imagination.

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Sorry about this and the next post being empty. I had forgotten about some bums not liking me making posts in sequence.

Definitely.

I never said it was, the inference is all yours. I value common sense above all.

You can make it as easy or as complicated as you like.

I love “knights in shining armor”.