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Good thinking, that’s what I would recommend too. Exactly. Welcome to the forum Aar0n. Glad to hear it’s all good now.

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Sorry, wrong thread

Wise words indeed.

Laozi cannot have been referring to TaiJi. Laozi lived approximately 6th or 4th century BC. That was approximately 1500 years before the invention of WuJi and TaiJi. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53840-yinyang/?do=findComment&comment=991382 https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53840-yinyang/?do=findComment&comment=991500Lll

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@Mango What’s the connection between YinYang and WuWei?

Who doesn’t? Sounds good to me. Great. Great introduction. Welcome to the forum, enjoy!

Hi David. Welcome to the forum. You have a great day too.

Hi Alfredovpea. Welcome to the forum.

Thank you very much. That’s extraordinary! ~~~ * John C. H. Wu, 1961 https://terebess.hu/english/tao/wu.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ching_Hsiung_Wu

Yes, that’s important too. Keep a strong base in reality.

We are part of “Creation”, so can know through our own bodies.

I think so yes. My God is omnipresent, so is also inside me. That’s close enough for me.

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Sorry for the empty posts, I was getting a bit off-topic. I moved them to https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53840-yinyang/?do=findComment&comment=991386

This seems unlikely. There’s only 1 mention. That’s in Ch 42, halfway the book. Seems far too late in the book for it to be a guide to something else that’s pivotal to the whole book (Wu Wei). What’s the connection between YinYang and WuWei?

Wrong thread

Enough said.

I think it is important to distinguish facts from imagination. And I think it is important to call out people that confuse the two.

I think the postmodernity view may have originated here: “In Taoist metaphysics, distinctions between good and bad, along with other dichotomous moral judgments, are perceptual, not real;…” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

This is possible. The one use of YinYang in the Laozi is a form of ‘sunny & shady side of the hill’. This meaning is in the 詩經 shi1 jing1 , at the latest from approximately the 7th centuries BCE. https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/53840-yinyang/?do=findComment&comment=991383