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Postby Yeung on Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:48 am

Just of interest, using the search engine in ctext.org, the term Ba Gua 八卦 did not have any match in classical Daoist literatures from 475BC to 8 AD. However, the term Yi Yang has 111 matches in classical Daoist literatures, with 201 matches for Yin, and 246 for Yang.
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Re: ctext.org search engine

Postby Yeung on Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:17 pm

"While you
Cultivate the soul and embrace unity,
can you keep them from separating?
Focus your vital breath until it is supremely soft,
can you be like a baby?
Cleanse the mirror of mysteries,
can you make it free of blemish?
Love the people and enliven the state,
can you do so without cunning?
Open and close the gate of heaven,
can you play the part of the female?
Reach out with clarity in all directions,
can you refrain from action?
It gives birth to them and nurtures them,
It gives birth to them but does not possess them,
It rears them but does not control them.
This is called "mysterious integrity."
- Translated by Victor H. Mair, 1990, Chapter 10

Laozi is opposed to Taoism, Qigong, Buddhism, politicians, and trangender by embracing to the mysterious integrity
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Postby Yeung on Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:44 pm

Dao yin 道引 has two matches in Zhuangzi, Outer Chapters, Ingrained idea 1&2 (350 BC to 250 BC):
https://ctext.org/daoism?searchu=%E9%81%93%E5%BC%95

In short, the sages did not practise Dao Yin and attained longevity.
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Postby Yeung on Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:43 am

1 Timothy 4:8: For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
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Postby Quigga on Wed Aug 17, 2022 12:27 pm

First in the mind, then in the body

Thanks for confirming a suspicion I had for a long time about various Chinese sages

Same is true of other ethnicities

I'm just so confused man. Like really, you want me to believe all of this and not make me question myself whether I'm psychotic or not

The butterfly is the most delicious of flying earth-bound creatures

I would call it the popcorn of the air
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Postby Yeung on Wed Aug 17, 2022 1:48 pm

I dream therefore I am not
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Postby everything on Thu Aug 18, 2022 3:53 pm

when we dream, one part of our brain makes some other part of our brain believe we are really experiencing whatever is happening in the dream. is our brain amazingly smart? amazingly gullible?
amateur practices til gets right pro til can't get wrong
/ better approx answer to right q than exact answer to wrong q which can be made precise /
“most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. Source of all true art & science
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Postby Appledog on Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:35 am

Yeung wrote:Laozi is opposed to Taoism, Qigong, Buddhism, politicians, and trangender by embracing to the mysterious integrity


Nominated for 2022 RSF quote of the year.
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Postby Appledog on Fri Aug 19, 2022 3:38 am

Yeung wrote:Dao yin 道引 has two matches in Zhuangzi, Outer Chapters, Ingrained idea 1&2 (350 BC to 250 BC):
https://ctext.org/daoism?searchu=%E9%81%93%E5%BC%95

In short, the sages did not practise Dao Yin and attained longevity.


Actually all the sages, confucious, mencius, laozi, etc. all practiced martial arts and "qigong" (daoyin, etc). and were highly accomplished masters. That is why they were called enlightened.
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Re: ctext.org search engine

Postby Bob on Fri Aug 19, 2022 10:50 am

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Changes-Tra ... 7530420259

Book of Changes and Traditional Chinese Medicine Paperback – April 25, 1998
by Yang Li (Author) - Professor at the graduate department of the TCM Institute of Beijing

Chapter Sixteen Book of Changes and Chinese Qi Gong (Breathing Exercises)

Section 2 - Book of Changes and Taoist Qi Gong

"Laozi and Zhuangzi are representatives of Taoist qi gong . . . p. 206

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Tons of citations but not referenced as qi gong which was a modern nomenclature.

https://www.amazon.com/Fathoming-Cosmos ... 0813927056

Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I Ching, or Classic of Changes) and Its Evolution in China (Richard Lectures) Hardcover – August 29, 2008
by Richard J. Smith (Author)

Richard J. Smith is George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas. A specialist in modern Chinese history and traditional Chinese culture, with a strong interest in transnational, global and comparative studies, Smith has won twelve teaching awards while at Rice, including the Piper Professorship (1987), the George R. Brown Certificate of Highest Merit (1992), the Sarofim Distinguished Teaching Professorship (1994), the Nicholas Salgo Distinguished Teaching Award (1996), and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching "Texas Professor of the Year" Award (1998). Smith's books include Mercenaries and Mandarins: The Ever-Victorious Army in Nineteenth Century China (1978); Traditional Chinese Culture: A Brief Introduction (1978); Fortune-tellers and Philosophers: Divination in Traditional Chinese Society (1991); Chinese Almanacs (1992); Chinese Maps: Images of "All Under Heaven" (1996); The I Ching: A Biography (2012), Mapping China and Managing the World Culture, Cartography and Cosmology in Late Imperial Times (2013), The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture (2015); and Fathoming the Cosmos and Ordering the World: The Yijing (I Ching or Book of Changes) and Its Evolution in China (2008; revised edition 2017). He has also co-edited or co-authored nine volumes: Chinese Walled Cities (1979); Entering China's Service (1986); Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization (1991); Cosmology, Ontology, and Human Efficacy: Essays in Chinese Thought (1993); H. B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China (1995); Different Worlds of Discourse: Transformations of Gender and Genre in Late Qing and Early Republican China (2008); Rethinking the Sinosphere: Poetics, Aesthetics, and Identity Formation (2020), Reexamining the Sinosphere: Cultural Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia (2020); and A Companion to Richard Berengarten’s Changing (forthcoming 2022). Smith is presently working on several articles and book chapters, as well as two books: (1) Magic Matters: Science and Medicine in Chinese Popular Culture 1600–1800; and (2) China: The Land of Ritual and Right Behavior. Born in Sacramento, California in 1944, Smith had a brief flirtation with professional baseball before coming to his senses. He has been married to the remarkable Alice (Lisa) Smith since 1967, and they have a delightful and talented son named Tyler.


Footnote 99 Not surprisingly, both historical and contemporary qi gong practices have been traced directly to Zhou Yi cantong qi
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Postby Yeung on Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:29 am

The physiology of Taijiquan is based on the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Medicine dated by scholars to between the late Warring State period (475-221 BC) and the Han dynasty (206 BC-200 AD). From the Mawangdui excavation in 1973 and Zhangjiashan excavation in 1984, there are evidences on breathing exercise, meridians and therapeutic exercise.
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Re: ctext.org search engine

Postby Yeung on Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:29 am

The physiology of Taijiquan is based on the Yellow Emperor’s Internal Medicine dated by scholars to between the late Warring State period (475-221 BC) and the Han dynasty (206 BC-200 AD). From the Mawangdui excavation in 1973 and Zhangjiashan excavation in 1984, there are evidences on breathing exercise, meridians and therapeutic exercise.
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Postby Yeung on Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:32 am

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Postby origami_itto on Sat Aug 20, 2022 7:35 am

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