ChiDragon

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  1. Why is all of modern Daoism 'Xuanxue' (neo-Daoism)?

    玄学(xuanxue) is metaphysics!
  2. What does 元亨利贞 really mean?

    It took me more than few minutes to familiarize the 8 trigrams. BTW the intend of the Yijing was not for fortune telling in the first place. If someone start using it to predict the future, one is only picked up somewhere in the middle and skipped to learn what Yijing was all about.
  3. What does 元亨利贞 really mean?

    To be more precise, it make more sense to familiarize with the foundational trigrams first.
  4. Neiye - Section 16 - The Dao of Eating

    大攝 (dà shè): 指飲食攝取太少、過於飢餓。 It means eating too little will cause over hunger 骨枯 (gǔ kū): 指骨骼乾枯。 It indicates that the bone become withered. 血沍 (xuè hù): 指血液凝滯、淤結。「沍」是閉塞、凝結的意思。 It indicated eating too much that will cause blood clot
  5. Neiye - Section 16 - The Dao of Eating

    Using Gemini AI for the translation that makes more sense. 凡 食 之 道: Regarding to the principle of eating 大 充: excessive eating; eating too much 傷 而 形 不 臧: will cause damage to the internal organs. PS Please note translating Chinese classics cannot be done by word-for-word. It must be done by the thoughts in the contextual meaning in the phrases.