ChiDragon

Yes, water buffalo meats are much tougher....!!!

Amend..................

Self discipline....!!!

kaaazuo.... Please keep in mind this classic text, sometimes, it is impossible to translate from character by character. Some of the characters have classic meanings, one cannot always apply modern definition for the translation. Sometimes, two characters were compounded to have a separate meaning then each individual character. Let me break the phrase and compound the characters. 蓋: In classic, sometimes, this character was placed in front to start a phrase. 聞: heard 善: good at 攝生: preserving life 者: the one. You take the basic meanings of the characters and put them in a sensible order.

Kaazuo..... 5. When desire is not, behold the mystery. 6. When desire is, behold the form. 5. 故常無欲，以觀其妙。 6. 常有欲，以觀其徼。 Based on your translation, you have the comma after the 欲, thus that will change the meaning of the whole phrase. 常無欲: always without desire 常有欲: always with desire That would have arose some questions: 1. Whose desire...??? 2. Whose mystery...??? Please notice where the comma is at in my original translation: 5. 故常無，欲以觀其妙。 6. 常有, 欲以觀其徼。 5. Hence, when Tao is always invisible, one would grok its quale. 6. When Tao is always visible, one would observe its boundary. PS.... May I ask you to start a new thread for questions in each chapter in the future...???

Here is another guy in white has good rooting with the legs to maintain his body balance. Check it out at 1:20. http://v.youku.com/v...IxMjc0NzQ0.html Here is the guy in red again. See how he handles the kicks above the waist from his opponent. BTW he never kick above the waist because he knows better. When he kicks, he always kept one foot on the floor for rooting and leverage. That is why he kicks are so powerful...!!! Even through he was knocked out at 6:35, his feet were still anchored to the floor. http://v.youku.com/v...U2NTMzNjA0.html The opponent cannot withstand the kicks was because he doesn't have any muscle tone in his legs. He was hurt in many places in his left leg. Especially in the beginning, he was hurt in the inside of the left thigh. Keep the legs strong to maintain body balance is what Zuan Zhuang will do for you.

Keep your eyes on the legs of the guy in red to see how he maintain his calm and balance and how powerful his punches are. He has good muscle tone. BTW He is a kung fu expert had won twenty-nine fights in the roll. In the video, he is fighting the bodyguard of the Russian President Putin. http://v.youku.com/v...g==.html

It is mainly building up good muscle tone for the leg muscles. You have good grounding after a long period of practice. Good grounding means good rooting which will allow to anchor your feet to the ground from falling off balance. Good rooting will not allow anyone to push you out of place. The breathing exercise will help you to do the rest of the stuffs that you have asked.

a freelance exorcist....!!! If one believes in such thing....!!!

.......ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Now I get it.....!!!

How can I miss this one....???

A cheerful and friendly 100% truly pure Taoism Master who hates evils does not sell guns for a living nor even touch a gun. Period.

One Buddha had a quest of stopping suffering and at some point the wheal of samsara came up. Seems like there's an endless cycle of suffering that comes with living and attachment. Some Buddhist people came up with an idea of removing attachments. The key word is 'some', the detachment almost became cannon if it wasn't for the other ideas. If you understand what Buddhism was all about, then you wouldn't have had came up with this thread....!!!

Yes, indeed it was. I do admit I do get carried away sometimes. However, I'll make sure that this situation will be rectified as part of my cultivation process. Peace...!!!

5. 故常無, 欲以觀其妙。 6. 常有,欲以觀其徼。 Let's look at the text by paying close attention to the punctuation, coma 5: 故常無, Hence(故), when Tao is always invisible(常無), 欲以觀其妙。 One would (欲) grok its mystery. 欲 means desire. I think you got confused with 肉(flesh). These two characters are pronounce the same in Cantonese. The reason I use grok for 觀(observe) is because one cannot observe a mystery; but one can only comprehend it by grokking. 6. 常有, 欲以觀其徼。 When Tao is visible(常有), one would(欲) observe its(其) boundary(徼).

Kaaazuo.... Yes, there is a good dim sum place close by where I live. I like 龍 井 more than poh lei. Thank you very much for your hospitality...!!!...

kaaazuo... Go into this site: http://www.oddcast.c...ple.php?sitepal 1. Copy 閻 羅 王 and paste in the "Enter Text:" window. 2. Select "Chinese" in the "Language:" window. 3. Select "Sin-Ji(Cantonese)" in the "Voice:" window. 4. Click the "Say It" button.

It seems this is to be a more proper translation to begin with: 1. xian tian 先天: early stage; early period; pre-natal; inherence; innate; natural 2. hou tian 後天: post-natal; later stage; later period

A good place to start is with the basic properties of these phases: Water descends(true) Wood expands(partial true) Fire ascends(true) Earth rotates(it means soil here) Metal contracts(partial true) Wood expands only when more water was absorbed. Earth means soil in the five elements rather than the Earth which rotates. Metals do contract and expend with different temperatures. It seems that is not so 善哉！after all.

sufidao.... You got a point there. It is worth something to look into. Let's see when 天 was first put into use as "day".... "the first gua is the Heaven (the Chinese always begin from south)," The first gua(Heaven) was on top of the Bagua was because when one looks up, that is where Heaven was. When one looks down, that's where the second gua(Earth) was at the bottom(north).

Of course, the meaning of day(天) was borrowed from Heaven..... How do you think the old Chinese expressed today(今天), yesterday(昨天) and tomorrow(明天). In the same token, the month(月) was borrowed from the moon(月). Heaven is Heaven; it doesn't make any sense to have an Early Heaven or Later Heaven. The difference of the two configurations of Bagua should be expressed as the Early Version BaGua and the Later Version Bagua.

FYI.... xian tian 先天 (earlier Heaven) and hou tian hou tian 後天 (later Heaven). are very poor translations to begin with. The proper translations: 1. xian tian 先天: earlier days 2. hou tian 後天: later days.

Beauty is only in the eyes of the beholder. Who are we here to insult the wisdom of the great ancient philosopher...???

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Stosh... "And thats why I said that the two fields are complimentary." Do you mean Complementary....!!!