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Welcome to the forum.

Hi Fordham. You’re very welcome. Enjoy the forum, you could also just start posting about whatever interests you.

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In this thread you can post and then delete it. Delete it and forget about it.

@Mark Foote hi ducky

Hi. Welcome to the forum. @Nungali is an expert.

I stop.

There’s only one standard translation, it is called the "received copy’; most translations are merely ‘interpretations’ of this same old standard translation.

Well you wouldn’t, it’s the girls night out.

There’s no 有 and 無 in it, the oldest version has 又 and 亡 (Guodian, Terebess, Henricks 2000: 又 亡 之 相 生 也 )

If it needs a commentary, it’s a mistranslation.

surely it's here https://terebess.hu/english/tao/amb.pdf

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

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That’s what you believe.

Hi Christopher. Welcome to the forum. Good to hear you “love everything about energy”

Welcome to the forum.

The standard translation of the DDJ is a forgery!

This may be ‘folie à deux’.

Definitely. A mature person knows it’s unknowable and takes responsibility - chooses what to belief in.

Daoism is dual (yin and yang), therefore all ‘the Dao bums’ are dual.

‘The ultimate unpopular opinions’ thread has gone very bland; look, the OP is not pleased

Hi. The title sounds fine to me. Welcome to the forum.

Hi. Welcome to the forum.

Same here.