Cobie

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  1. obsolete

    @Mark Foote hi ducky
  2. obsolete

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

    Hi. Welcome to the forum. @Nungali is an expert.
  4. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    There’s only one standard translation, it is called the "received copy’; most translations are merely ‘interpretations’ of this same old standard translation.
  5. Yes-But-Mind vs. Don't-Know-Mind

    Well you wouldn’t, it’s the girls night out.
  6. Lao-tzu Ch 2: 有 & 無

    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 )
  7. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    If it needs a commentary, it’s a mistranslation.
  8. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    surely it's here https://terebess.hu/english/tao/amb.pdf
  9. Hello Everyone - New to this forum

    Hi. Welcome to the forum.
  10. Yes-But-Mind vs. Don't-Know-Mind

    That’s what you believe.
  11. I'm new here - hi!

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

    Welcome to the forum.
  13. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    The standard translation of the DDJ is a forgery!
  14. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    Definitely. A mature person knows it’s unknowable and takes responsibility - chooses what to belief in.
  15. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    Daoism is dual (yin and yang), therefore all ‘the Dao bums’ are dual.
  16. The ultimate unpopular opinions

    ‘The ultimate unpopular opinions’ thread has gone very bland; look, the OP is not pleased
  17. Hello from a new practitioner

    Hi. The title sounds fine to me. Welcome to the forum.
  18. Level 0 😱

    Hi. Welcome to the forum.
  19. Can we talk about AI

    Same here.
  20. If you got you own kingdom

    As the saying goes: don’t tell me how much you’ve practiced spiritually; show me how much you love other people.
  21. Can we talk about AI

    I’m not interested in a future with AI.
  22. It came as a shock to me to get to know my Chinese teacher who came from Beijing as an adult. She said things like, ‘why do Dutch people say, “I’m happy for you?”, looking flabbergasted. She just did not understand the concept of it.