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For me, not particularly so. But my Chinese teacher told me Chinese people avoid using the number 四，as it sounds a bit like 死。

Could you give an example please, of text in the DDJ that’s about governing a state “quite brutally”.

Cloud444 is the one that has the health issues.

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(my bold) “new” Somehow I think you’re not really “getting” the girl.

Yes, I agree.

That’s the easy part (the party trick) and merely a means to an end. The real work is the development of a virtuous character.

Good to see you back. Yes, I agree. Yeah, we agree; a rare occurrence.

Nocturnal emissions do not deplete your “jing” and need not be stopped. Your body is still functioning fine in that aspect, so just let it be.

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Throughout history, there always are plenty of celibate religious people living very happy and fulfilled lives.

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You are repeating yourself, see: Also see:

~~~<>~~~ A brief history of Female Foot Mutilation in China ~~~<>~~~ Wu Dai to Northern Song (960-1127 C.E) Mainly royal families and social elite. Mostly in the cities. Southern Song (1127-1279 C.E) to Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 C.E) Spread to ordinary households. And even young girls of 4 or 5 years old. Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911) Became a ubiquitous social norm. It is estimated that by the 19th century, it was 40–50% of all Chinese women, rising to almost 100% in upper-class Chinese women. Becoming the most abusive; not only bind, also to mutilate or even cut away parts. It mostly stopped early 20th century. The last shoe factory making lotus shoes closed in 1999.

Read what you wrote: (my bold) Think about it:

Sarcasm alert. Yeah great stuff, about a thousand years of crippling women by destroying their feet. Yeah for such “wisdom”.

Interesting. I think the concept of ‘wuwei’ is also “legalist” and brought in by “Hanfeizi”.

~~~<>~~~ Bhuddaoism ~~~<>~~~ Buddhism and Daoism have co-influenced each other over hundreds of years in China. Although Buddha lived from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C., the founder of Daoism, Lao-Tzu was thought to live in the 6th century BCE. Buddhism and Daoism didn’t encounter each other until Buddhism entered China around the third century BCE — and since that time (arguably) they have influenced each other as both flourished across China. https://buddhaweekly.com/dharma-and-the-tao-how-buddhism-and-daoism-have-influenced-each-other-why-zen-and-taoism-can-be-compliementary/ Buddhism reached China in the early centuries of the Common Era, but it did not have a major impact on Chinese religion and society until the early 5th century, when terminology was standardized because of the translation efforts of Kumārajīva (b. 344–d. 413) and his team. The resulting vast corpus of Buddhist literature inspired the expansion of the religion in all dimensions, creating a vivid Buddhist culture in philosophy, ritual, meditation, and religious organization. This culture had a massive impact on Daoism, beginning with the school of Numinous Treasure (Lingbao), that completely transformed the religion and has pervaded it ever since. The entire institution of monasticism, all Daoist religious sculpture, concepts of hell and reincarnation, and ethical rules and precepts, as well as forms of insight meditation, sacred hand gestures, repentance rituals, and philosophical concepts—including cosmology and psychology—go back to Buddhist influence. At the same time, certain Buddhist notions also received a strong impact from Daoism. Best known among them are the understanding of the ruler as prophesied savior and the practice of oblivion and some of its concomitant concepts. https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195393521/obo-9780195393521-0220.xml

Hi WhoDo. Great intro. Welcome to the forum.

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Hi CD. Welcome to the forum. In general imo best to stick to 無為 (wu-wei - non-interference), i.e. don’t make it “move”.

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Hi Bleys. Welcome to the forum. I’m also living in the Netherlands.