Cobie

I myself regard ‘qi’ as being both physical (the vitality of the body) and non-physical (pneuma, what animates the body).

I agree that abdominal breathing is all important. And your descriptions of the physical processes involved in Taiji practice, ring true to me.

Exactly! ‘zen’ is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese ‘ch'an’. 禪 zen = 禪 ch'an (chan2 - homonym of Sanskrit ध्यान - dhyāna). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/禪 ‘Kanji’ means ‘Chinese characters’ (Kanji 漢字 : 漢 han4 - Chinese language; 字 zi4 - characters).

I agree there’s no need for any of that. Your method works for you and you are happy with your theoretical underpinning of it, based on the available scientific theories. Totally sufficient imo.

Yes, very true. (I looked up the meaning of 氣 in 3 sources: https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/56161-氣-qi4 /?do=findComment&comment=1039850)

So when/why was the Buddha’s wish overruled?

Never anthropomorphise individuals of another species, you’ll end up getting eaten by your ‘friend’.

wrong thread

I like that. I agree it’s very important to keep a clear line in a discussion. It’s not a good idea to let oneself get sidetracked by all kinds of other things, as then one can’t see the forest for the trees.

That’d be your “eudaimonia”.

The new “philosophy school” according to Cadcam (based on the above post)

@dwai don’t know how old you are. But definitely CD is a marvel, he is over 70. Lol, that would have killed me instantly. I’m about the same age, some people I know my age can’t even walk as long as the duration of your videos, and need one of these for shopping. (not me I hasten to add)

I’m sure I’d agree, if only I knew what it meant. IPO? ENLT? ticker name?

Eckhart Tolle (says Google) has $80 million in 2024 and still charging! I doubt someone ‘enlightened’ would be that greedy.

Yes, I prefer, “fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me“ (idiom). Also to be considered imo, when does it become ‘aiding and abetting’.

Paleography e.g. looks at the differences (e.g. in characters/style/contents) of all existing Ch.s 70-81 with the rest of the chapters.

palaeography.

DDJ Ch. 1: 此兩者同出而異名 (see, I read your translations).

有意思. 真的

removed. whatever. Cobie has left the thread.

That all makes perfect sense. A lot of practice went into this, kudos to you.

I can fajin myself.

工 gong1 - work + 力 li4 - physical strength = 功 gong1 - achievement

One day all this will be yours! No thanks ancestors, I’d rather have this.

Hi Natural Flow. Welcome to the forum.