chenping
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To lose the original face is to lose moral composure. Immorality knows no shame. Cultures that have no shame love the shock value of losing face.
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But you guys feel at home on Planet Earth, I don't. You feather your nest, have families and friends and your Tao. I feel as if I am in the land of hungry ghosts. That's it! That's exactly what I am talking about. You get yourself unstuck and make yourself at home here in ghost land. I don't want to. I don't belong here. I want to get out of here like Dorothy on the Yellow Brick road back to Kansas. It's crazy, man. I seek nothing and I don't see any point to my being here in this reality. I don't want third eye, yin yang, whatever. As long as I can't get out, I could sure use a lot more money to get real comfortable. I am heading for Bhutan next week. It's $10,000 for a five-day stay in the Punakha Valley. No trekking, no temples. I will just lay back with a hot-stone bath and massage. As long as I am stuck, I might as well live it up.
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What do I seek? Frankly, I haven't figured out yet what I (this seeker) am. All I know if that I am a Chinaman stuck in a human body living on the Planet Earth. I don't buy it but that's the situation that I am stuck with. Pathetic, isn't it?
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There is nothing wrong with crossing cultures as long as you respect the cultures you cross including avoid tearing down barriers that others erect to protect themselves from you. Even in America, a man has a right to shoot you down if you break into his home and force him to share his private life with you. Wu wei of the Chinese Tao Te Ching that has no bias means to butt out. The world may not be pretty to you and you want to expose it to the light of day, eradicate cultural practises that divide, squash backward beliefs that destroy harmony. They are all wrong and you are right. In the end, we are all victims of those who think they are right. And this is your bias.
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If you were standing next to me, chances are I wouldn't talk to you if you don't have anything to do with attending to me, my dog and my toys. I only talk to service-providers. When I am not on the computer unwinding like now, I would be doing real stuff that assures my financial viability. I do need to hide from "real life" as you call it. "Real people" are heavy maintenance. I really don't have the time for them. After a good time, they won't go away. They call you on your phone and want to know when they can meet up again. On the internet, I can switch you off and never even need to say goodbye.
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Yes, it's all illusory. Life is like a movie, Snow White and the Seven Dawrfs, with a cast of make-believe characters and I am cast as Sleepy, you are Grumpy and he is Lazy. The only dwarf who takes his identity as real is Crazy.
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Can you be more specific? Imagine yourself with a beer at a bar and you want to start a conversation with this ass standing next to you. You pop a question like that, you will get an answer you don't want. So, ask me again.
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A personal identity is boring and usually unhelpful for socializing. Our physical bodies and social status in the world beyond the world wide web are divisive and off-putting to those who may be old, sickly, ugly, and poor. This is because everybody forms an image of everybody else and compare that with his or her own image. In cyberspace, you are liberated from such hang-ups and everyone is equal. Isn't this a lot better?
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What west bashing? Philosophical Daoism of the west is a liberal arts subject that has a liberal bias. Yes or no? There is no Tao except the Tao that can be told and it has been told by Hendricks, Feng and others. This Tao has western liberal virtues like humility, equality and never put your best foot forward. Stuff like that. For God's sake, wake up! You can point to the Christians that they are worshipping a non-existent God, why can't you see that you are talking about a non-existent Tao? The ground rules of Tao are similar to the Commandments of God. Wake up!! Your Lao wrote a pamphlet. Pooh Bear Lao of the west, that is. Please don't infer that all this stuff you are saying (and it's quite alright for you to say them) are connected to the Chinese text of the Tao Te Ching which has no bias. Your brand of (western) Taoism is a sect not different from Wudang and other Taoist sects and each sect has its own respective bias. In that regard, you are correct. Western Taoism has a liberal bias. I have been raised to respect my elders and do not share your western liberal disdain for tradition and authority. To look down on your elders is to have contempt for yourself. Such arrogance! And you would talk about humility. If your foreign mind have clearer understanding, why don't you stick with foreign thought like Christianity, psychology or Keats? Chinese thought of antiquity comes from an elitist, imperialistic culture of ancient China. People got their heads chopped off if they didn't bow to the Emperor. Everyone has his place. The Japanese and Koreans would understand this. You who would neither bow nor kneel could talk of humility? "White man speak with forked tongue", said the red man. Is that clear enough?
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Any bias you detected comes from the English translation of the Tao Te Ching. Western renderings are biased. He wrote a Dao that nothing goes. But the westernized Dao is biased to an enabling yin because it is meant for a liberal readership. And because it is an enabler, it points everybody everywhere - anything goes - a bias of no biases.
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Yes, brilliant strategy used for the wrong reason. That was why - to prevent it falling into unworthy hands - Chinese martial art was, by tradition, secretly handed down and never openly taught to outsiders.
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You think? Your rationalization of Sun Tsu's martial philosophy is selfish and debased. It's never about costs and always about principle when one is driven to wage war. The shock and awe of Desert Storm was classic Sun Tzu but the reason for war was unprincipled. Sun Tsu strategy is let you keep on thinking the way you do. Martial art is deception. Another bloodbath awaits you.
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Taichi enables one to live life either long and slowly or fast and furious. I prefer the latter. Even as a kid, I didn't eat the way other kids did. I wolfed it down always. Longevity has no value to me. Everything needs to be in season. Even people have a sell-by date. If the body is not at the peak of its performance cycle, it's time to go. Hanging on with loose teeth and blurred vision is not longetivity. It's pathetic.
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Effect with regard to what? Why do you say that? I would say the unbending opinion comes from common sense. I find it impossible to stick a knife into my belly or slit my own throat. Where do you think my unbending opinion of such actions comes from? Qi is not a substance foreign to the body. LSD is. Transfer of Qi is similar to exchange of bodily fluids. Cite one example of an Eastern practice that is far more dangerous. You know the drug thing is wrong. Why are you pushing it?
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To find out if there is any connection between A and B, press A and see if there is any response at B. No response confirms no connection.
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I am referring to your monk radio website's info on Lin AiWei (ζζε). .
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Lin, looks like you spent some time in China as an English teacher and did some stuff on the side. Establishing a cultural center there is something else. Any Chinaman could "disappear" in America without a trace after clearing immigration at LAX but nobody, not even Chinamen, can mess around like that in the PRC because everyone - Chinese and foreigners - need to produce personal identification documents even to purchase a train ride from one city to another. No one can get lost in China because you go through checkpoints everywhere. Visas are for specific tourist or business purposes supported by verifiable means. One mis-step and you get caught up in a system and is processing 1.3 billion people. You may never be heard of again.
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Do you realize that the Taoism you have gotten into may be unconnected to the classical Chinese version of the Tao Te Ching? I don't even see a connection between Philosophical Daoism of the west and the Third Eye. The disconnect between eastern and western worldviews could account for your western LSD approach to your western version of an eastern goal.
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Those doors are closed for most people? In what way are you better off on account of LSD?
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I have a great physique to prove I know what I am talking about. You want to compare whose body reigns supreme? Western diet is based on proven scientific knowledge that guides physical conditioning of olympic athletes, horses included. It's all a pretense anyway you look at it. Does it matter if I stick to being Chinese? You think Cat is a real name? How about Taomeow? Apech?
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Good point. Thanks for the heads-up.
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I wonder what language would be used to challenge the intruder when an American F22 is pounced on by two Chinese Su 30s over the East China Sea. SU-30: η½η! δΌ±εΉΉηιΊΌ? (Good sir! How you doing?) F-22 : WTF!
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If you are intuiting something seriously amiss, then I withdraw my suggestion which is meant for a sound belly going out of whack on account of an unhealthy lifestyle.
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When it comes to bodily health, a healthy western diet is the only way. Breakfast daily on rolled oats (simmer 3 tablespoonfuls in hot water for 5 minutes to make a porridge). Sprinkle on 2 tablespoonfuls of raw oat bran, 1 tablespoon of sunflower seeds, 1 tablespoon of pumpkin seeds. Top with a banana sliced up. A glass of fruit juice: chop up a couple of oranges and throw in a blender with a handful of fresh pineapple cubes. Exercise is essential for gut health. Minimum 30 minutes aerobics 5 day a week Do this for 7 days starting now and report back next Wednesday. If your stool problem doesn't clear up, I will chop off my head. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_GhGX7cHCg
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It would be reactionary. It's like taking a boyfriend on the rebound. Are you a Village person? Just asking.
