wandelaar Posted October 5, 2018 https://books.google.nl/books?id=YNFiAgAAQBAJ How about this one? What do the Bums think of this book? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Marblehead Posted October 5, 2018 Looks like it might be very worthy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wandelaar Posted October 5, 2018 Yes - I am considering to buy it. But I haven't too much space for still more books left now. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawei Posted October 5, 2018 Sounds interesting. thanks for sharing. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dosa Posted October 5, 2018 It looks like a good deal. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gerard Posted October 6, 2018 (edited) . Edited October 6, 2018 by Gerard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taoist Texts Posted October 6, 2018 Its pretty bad. Same tired cliches, same old mistranslations, rehashed and regurgitated. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wandelaar Posted October 6, 2018 1 hour ago, Taoist Texts said: Its pretty bad. Same tired cliches, same old mistranslations, rehashed and regurgitated. What do you think are better introductions? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Everything Posted October 6, 2018 (edited) The movement of chou is the movement or flow that you can feel of the non-physical nature of vibrational reality of everything that exists. You can feel the full flow of well-being that is what the entire universe is made up, by virtue of your ability to feel the being in alignment with it, when you then feel the knowledge/love/freedom/appreciation of true knowingness. Thus you allow your heart to guide your heart. You can allow your head to be guided by the heart and then your head can work in harmony as it was intended to do always so anyway. To work in harmony with your heart and thus the flow of the entire universe. And as you come into alignment with all of that, you feel love and you have endless knowkedge to offer. Inspired thinking of shou head in harmony with chou flow. As opposed to thoughts of resistance to that movement that then causes the flow to be pinched of which you feel as negative emotion which then extends into manifestations of physical illness disease or pain, etc. That is the flooding. Because life always takes the path of least resistance. So why shoulden't your mind aswell? Because your mind is not strong enough to resist the well-being that is powerful and abbundant and powerfully stable and consistent flow of the entire universe. You can only suffer yourself out of harmony with that. And you would achieve absolutely nothing, and in that not necessary experience you would then only be inspired more than ever to flow with the well-being of the entire universe with every now relief that you can find and feel on the path of lesser resistance that is always the path of least resistance. So you could teach your mind to think that which feels better. Or you could teach your mind to think that which feels worse. It's all up to you, and ofcourse no one can make that decision for you. For you can also decide to just accept reality and allow it to dictate what you think. But then you have no choice in how you feel. And no freedom either, unless your circumstances allow you that freedom. But if you allow your heart to be your unconditional guide that it already truely is, then you also allow the unconditional freedom of that which is who you truely already are, which all of nature is made up of. By virtue of feeling your thought to a better feeling, thought at a time, to the full realization of all the knowledge that you seek, and all the freedom, and love, and joy, and appreciation. Edited October 6, 2018 by Everything Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taoist Texts Posted October 6, 2018 1 hour ago, wandelaar said: What do you think are better introductions? this series of articles excellently puts DDJ into the historical context https://baopu81.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/classical-daoism-is-there-really-such-a-thing-part-1/ 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wandelaar Posted October 6, 2018 2 hours ago, Taoist Texts said: this series of articles excellently puts DDJ into the historical context https://baopu81.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/classical-daoism-is-there-really-such-a-thing-part-1/ Thank you - I will give it a look. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dawei Posted October 27, 2018 On 10/6/2018 at 5:47 AM, Taoist Texts said: this series of articles excellently puts DDJ into the historical context https://baopu81.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/classical-daoism-is-there-really-such-a-thing-part-1/ Yes, found that a long time ago... and overall quite good... but some comments in the very opening paragraph I'm not sure I agree with. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
