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Cor Blimey, Mary Poppins, luv a duck and bobs your uncle, were orf to old London taaahn.

We get told that someone died as a result of a knife attack - but never in what circumstances. This leaves the incident uncontextualized and with no information by which to put it into context. For instance if this is gang related, crime related, drug related or whatever. Is it occurring in particular communities? Or is it just random. Is it premeditated or not? How much of a factor is lack of policing? And so on. Which leaves us with ridiculous solutions being proposed - like banning knives with points and so on. I suspect that there is a political correctness factor behind this.

I think you are stepping quite close to an ad hominem attack there

Oi! This is about London and stabbings. London, England, UK get it?

The pub.

Your question isn't a stupid one. The dao, the way in which things come to be and persist can be understood as the interaction of Heaven (a zone of pure yang) and Earth (a zone of pure yin) which form two poles. Their interaction is like a bellows or a drum and the created things (10,000 things) are said to dance to its rhythm. Many texts relate the circulation of qi on the body to the celestial cycles - most notably the sun and the moon. There is a harmony or resonance between the cycles in nature and our own health for instance. Every moment in time is a kind of encapsulation of the interaction of yin and yang in layers of patterns and this is best expressed in the I Ching (Yijing) where each hexagram represents a moment or situation and the lines stresses that change in time within that pattern. So the changes are both yin and yang. Yang is not specifically 'yours' - which is perhaps where you are thinking about it wrong. Yang is a fundamental principle with a number of expressed qualities - such as masculine, bright, hard and so on.

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Slower?

Well I guess you'd have to start by deciding what you include in Daoism and what you don't. Are the wu-shamans Daoist? for instance.

Sure there must be a line I guess. But maybe that's the wrong way to look at it. It's rather whether the master is staying true to Daoism. On the other hand if they are so eclectic that it ceases to be Daoist and becomes just a manifestation of their fantasies. Well it is what it is, it may have merit of maybe not. You have to judge.

Interesting debate. I've read Damo's book and thought it very helpful and comprehensive (although there were one or two points where I disagreed with him - but not essentially on the basics.) The section on the heart field does seem like a bit of an add on - and he makes the point that emphasis on the middle Dandien is not typical of earlier Nei Gong /Dan texts - but I'm not sure it is the strongest part of his book, or the best understood. It may be that this emerged as influence from Buddhism. But I don't buy the contamination theory which some people seem to uphold. Daoist practice is not as far as I can see fixed at some point in time, there is no ur-text or original practice - it, like the Dao, is continually changing and adapting - and in fact if you call what teachers, masters take on board in their teaching 'contamination' then you are saying that your understanding is better than theirs. That you as a westerner having read some translation of the TTC etc. know better than the masters of medieval China up today. Which clearly not the case.

Might be Lara Croft role-play.

Maybe try one of Damo Mitchells books for qigong; neigong and so on.

I haven't actually read this but have read her book on wuxing which was very complete and good - so I imagine this is the same: http://www.monkeypress.net/books/essence-spirit-blood-and-qi

It talks a little about chi (qi) in reference to yinyang.

It's a very thorough account of how the yinyang principles are applied in many fields of thought. It is academic more than practical but gives a very sound introduction to the subject and a lot of detail. But if it is practice you are after - not much good for that.

Yes.

The it depends refers to the choice of frame of reference for measurement.

Here's another - self explanatory question and answer. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/59502/does-gravity-slow-the-speed-that-light-travels

We are all waiting for that to happen. Fingers crossed

c as a constant is the maximum speed of light in a vacuum. Its a gravity well - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_well - work it out for yourself.

Its a maximum limit. No. Larger radius further from centre of gravity.

That's quote mining. If you include the next sentence from wiki: "According to special relativity, c is the maximum speed at which all conventional matter and hence all known forms of information in the universe can travel." You will see that c is a maxima. Light does travel slower than c, for instance in different media, refraction is evidence of this. The light leaving the sun is very slightly slowed but because of the large radius of the sun the effect is minimal.

Radiation. Speed of light exceeds the escape velocity of the star. If it cannot it becomes a black hole.

As the earth is rotating at about 1,000 mph in 4 hours you'd get 4,000 miles and in a year 1,460,000 miles which is quite a long way.