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The dragon on your link has 5 toes; definitely not conducive to good Chinesehealth. “ … five-clawed dragons were reserved for use only by the emperor ... when someone [else] painted a dragon with five golden claws, … were he and his entire family put to death …” https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/enter-the-dragon-imperial-power-and-its-depictions

Hi diggorydogood. Yippee someone that’s interested in the Chinese language. Welcome to the forum.

Hi fvenbk. Nice intro. Welcome to the forum.

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“The complete silence on the subject of misogyny so firmly entrenched in the Buddhist scriptures, and traced to the Buddha, is quite remarkable.” (from the quoted link) “Therevada Buddhist philosophy, which arguably assumes a monastic, male only, life denying flavor.” link https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53989-relational-meditative-practices/?do=findComment&comment=995702

There’s also “come up smelling like a rose”

Hi MAR. Welcome to the forum.

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@ChiDragon Thanks for the like.

Ime the DDJ does not concern itself with such concepts. It gives very practical advice of use for improving one’s daily life. Mainly with a focus on improving social interaction, stuff like ‘be tolerant’, ‘don’t brag’, ‘respect women’.

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Hi Jason, I am very happy to see you here.

@Nuralshamal thanks for your post. It was not my intention to come over as ‘belittling’, so I will learn from your feedback. I have removed my posts and will leave this thread. Be well.

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This might be a good source https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=75673

I might get it too. Are you sure you’ve got time left? If not now, then when?

Yes, ime Eastern tradition is unhelpful for women. Confucius did not even count a woman in the room as there being a human in the room. In writings about yin/yang, I often see women equated with negativity, evil, coldness and darkness. Historically things happened like: female-feet-mutilation, the discarding of female children, widows encouraged to kill themselves. @helgaferae Είσαι Έλληνας;

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I’m now way too old for any spiritual road that requires any more of any type of ‘cultivation’; there’s just no time left. Starting young, I consider it child abuse. So I have come to the conclusion that the only spiritual roads of value, are the ones that give the end result instantaneously.

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All good people have a sense of self.