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Good morning 😊🌞from my morning walk. Appropriate course of action when faced with one of these? What are they? Mochi says go through.

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This is a mianguan 冕冠. It's also called a tassel crown and it was the headdress of the Emperor. Most focus on it as a symbol of social rank. However, it also has profound spiritual meaning & purpose:

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This is what Daoism looks like. You would think it would be about trying to have an immediate experience of the Dao, unity, non-dualism. But in fact, it’s practiced with a ton of rituals.

China in Pictures

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Patrick Liu刘诚勇, Chairman of the German Daoist Association, hosting a rituals in the Grand Daoist Temple, Wuhan. He began practicing Qi Gong, meditation and martial arts as a child. In 2016, founded Wudang Pai Germany. In 2019, opened Wudang Temple Germany - Yu Zhen Guan.

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Holy sh*t. I must have read this book a thousand times. How did I miss the ancient Han dynasty description of INCEL pathophysiology? It’s a liver problem! The liver is weak, so the heart is not nourished. Soothe the liver, soothe the incel? These people knew everything.😮🤓

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WuJi 無極 means Without Limits. No boundaries. Limitless. Before the archetypal polarity of Yin & Yang, was WuJi. "The Way (Dao) gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two give birth to Three. Three give birth to ten thousand things” I like this horizontal image because🧵

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So I was up last night reading the ShiJing 詩經 - Classic of Poetry, hoping to understand and feel what love was like in ancient China. And I was dying. 😂😂😂 People today are the SAME as they were during the W. Zhou! Here’s an example of what I mean. A poem fr 1000-600 BCE:

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Blowing my mind: The idea that there are a bunch of tiny gods in the body (shēnshén 身神) interceding w gods outside the body for health came AFTER impersonal versions of Daoism They anthropomorphised the system LATER! Would have thought gods were a more ancient way of thinking

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So interested right now in how Shangqin Daoist meditation (neiguan) became a bridge from external elixirs & alchemy (waidan) to internal alchemy practices of neidan. As in all spiritual practices, there r so many varieties. Han medical Daoism is impersonal. Gods are irrelevant.

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Sorry but I have terrible news for lovers of Summer 😬🌞 Today, Aug 7 is lì qiū 立秋 the official 🍂Start of Autumn according the ancient Chinese solar calendar, the 24 solar terms or jie qi. For Daoists who follow the qi of nature, it means it’s time to start gathering qi…

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Why are ancient Chinese seasons different than Western seasons? It all starts with the GNOMON. This device casts a shadow. The high-rising sun in the summer casts the shortest shadow & the low-rising sun in the winter, casts the longest shadow at noon. In yin- yang terms: 1/

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As it turns out, the Daoist $ex manual, "Classic of the White Madam" 素女經 (素=pristine 女= woman) or SuNüJing has positions, movements, breathing exercises & was favoured as an instruction manual in prostitution houses in Beijing. Complied during the Han dynasty🙀or before🧵

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@NeiJingLover I was thinking the same thing about Jing. I also think prostitutes, at least some, knew more about this immortality stuff than they let off. Their profession creates the perfect set up to study/practice

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What makes a good leader has always been a quintessential question in ancient China. For Daoists, good leaders are EMPTY of ego & let the Dao work through them. Leadership questions are also spiritual questions. That's why POLITICS & SPIRIT evolved together in ancient China.🧵

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So… I’m reading through the English translation of the Daoist sẽxology manual, the Su nü jing. It’s very short. Interesting take: Sounds like the intensity of fantasizing during şêx was considered unhealthy… to cure within a week through non-release. Maybe because…

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2/ 12 tassels of green, red, yellow, white & black jade beads, sacred stone connecting Heaven, Earth & Humans, hung in the colors of the 5 phases. So the emperor was constantly reminded that what he sees through the tassels are merely phenomena of the 5 phases over 12 months.

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Chinese people have a funny relationship to dairy for some reason. It came up during our Spaces chat. The question was: Is it Chinese to have dairy? (see map👇) Well, apparently during the Han Dynasty, the Northerners did drink milk. They were known for it - like the Dutch.

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So interested right now in how Shangqin Daoist meditation (neiguan) became a bridge from external elixirs & alchemy (waidan) to internal alchemy practices of neidan. As in all spiritual practices, there r so many varieties. Han medical Daoism is impersonal. Gods are irrelevant.

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3/These beads also shielded the emperor's eyes from heart-confusing stimuli. In Chinese med craving & desire exhaust the eyes. When we look at something we want, there's an intensity & 'life' in the gaze that is not there when we look at something we are neutral about. Test it.

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4/ Furthermore, outward gazing toward the phenomenal world of 'the 10,000 things' was considered confusing to the heart. Placing a barrier between the eyes and the outside world attenuates interaction/ absorption in the 10,000 things & keeps one's heart more settled internally.

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8/ Thus the Huainanzi says they wore these caps to “mask their vision” & “plug their ears”. The ability to see and hear clearly were essential skills for the ruler. Only stillness and proper alignment of the heart could align the eyes, ears, and mouth into correct discernment.

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NeiJingLover

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@bryancsk A lot of people enjoy ritual. It organizes your brain + it can be comforting to have a clear plan of action towards a promised outcome. altars, incense & cool robes w huge trigrams. Of course the downside is that st folks forget to survey if they are really getting the outcomes.

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5/The Kuang, or earplugs served the same purpose, shielding ears from potentially misleading stimuli. As a result of seeking internal counsel in Dao & harmoniously aligning w natural order, sage-kings acquired great essence & spirit which enabled extraordinary vision and hearing

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Imagine if you could walk into a bar and seriously ask: "So... what's everyone's favourite translation of the opening lines to the Dao De Jing?"🥳 Here are 10 translations from the D.K. Jordan's site, UCSD. Which is your favourite? Why? Prefer another? Starting w Chinese:

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Been seeing these wheels of emotions around. Thought I'd put it into a Classical Chinese context for y'all. The 5 emotions and their associated organs are: Anger - Liver Enjoyment - Heart Worry - Spleen Sadness - Lung Fear - Kidney (It's a first draft - taking suggestions)

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In terms of yin and yang, autumn is yin. & a great chance to understand that jumbled yin within yang & yang within yin idea. Start with the idea that summer solstice is max yang and winter solstice is max yin. So you get the most hrs of sunlight in summer & least in winter.

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7/ Clear eyes and ears were signifiers for the clear perception of sages, which could pierce through confusion. The Emperor was ideally a sage-king, a person capable of such clarity.

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@NTFabiano I love this study. So simple & meaningful. I always get giddy when I see it pop up bc from my perspective it mirrors how the ancient Chinese (200BC) understood emotional causes of disease. For them, emotions create specific functional vectors of movement which affect physiology.

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A Spirit-written text (written through mediumship or possession) about transcendent spiritual practices for women (nüdan) transmitted by an actual Goddess, like Xiwangmu sounds amazing right?? Until you actually read the thing and realise that ...

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Hey there! Back from @JeffreyKotyk 's great conference on Astral sciences. Such a generous and collegial guy! Now, to get back to this fun conversation on the 5 Phases & dynastic succession. Here’s my oversimplified take on 5 Phases (WuXing) evolution🧵1/

Yang Zhongxiu 君子養心莫善於誠

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@XianyangCB The British Crown obeys the Five Phases of royal succession: . The final portrait of Queen Elisabeth's revealed she favored water, now King Charles has shown us his commitment to fire. So if Prince William's progressive norwood is any indication...

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@Agippo_Vermith The magical aspect is super interesting. Up to the Han dynasty, the Chinese worldview was pretty strictly Chinese. But yes, once you get the Silk Road & places like Dunhuang, all these cultures connect in the most surprising ways. My friend @JeffreyKotyk works on those exchanges

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BTW in this episode Karyn Lai makes it a point to say that there is no one single “Way” to be. There is no “The” Dao but many Dao. So each of us might have our own “Way”. Was that unclear to anyone at any point? It’s always been my reading of it but apparently it’s debatable.

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This was a fabulous episode! It has the tone of a great dinner party, or rather after-dinner drinks. (If I were at dinner with people discussing the role of Confucius in the Zhuangzi & the concept of usefulness) Thank you @AjaanMark for recommending it!

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@XianyangCB Almost. Look at the teeth - it’s a giveaway. Boy needs to hold in some Jing. The rest of him is very immortal tho. 😂

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6/ If the sage's eyes are truly clear, they can see things others can't. One who is aligned, can perceive the realm of spirit. This clarity enables extrasensory 'vision' through the heart/mind (shen) & one can thus perceive spirit. (Here it applies to drs. but the rule stands)

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You can’t align with the seasons if you don’t know when they are. Solstices are the apex, not start, of yin (winter) & yang (summer). One of the changes I needed to make in my life after studying Classical Chinese med was to reframe my notion of when the 4 seasons start & end.

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Today is the traditional #MidAutumnFestival , a time for family reunion&worshiping the moon goddess. In the past Chinese people would make Yueguangma月光馬, a paper painted with jade rabbit, moon goddess and other things related to the moon, and then burn it to express blessings.

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In Chinese med the "organs" or zàng 臟 are both real & symbolic. In the correlative cosmology of Chinese med, the lungs resonate with Autumn so I think about them a lot right now. I meditate on the actual organ and also its symbolic functions. Lungs generate Qi & store sadness.

Dr. Meenakshi 🩺

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Healthy n smoker Lungs 🫁

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NeiJingLover

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You know what’s conspicuously missing from Daoist discussions? Love We have a ton about Sagehood, immortality, equanimity, insight, governance, health, longevity, sexology, nature, the universe, magic, omens, inner cultivation, qi mastery Where’s love? @edwardW2 @MichaelMjfm

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@Dr_TheHistories The ancient Chinese used a sexagesimal system which combines a base-10 and a base-12 system called the heavenly stems and earthly branches. I love that these 2 cultures (independently?) came to the same conclusions by observing the heavens. a reproducible natural order?

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4) Good leadership ideally emerges from enlightenment. The sage-emperor, a spontaneous, or natural human keeps the spirit within, STILL, not lurching. The Huainanzi, a leadership instruction book for the young Emperor Wu in 141 BC depicts this politico-spiritual ideal in detail:

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one Daoist ideal is to guard the essence (jing/semęn) but also the spirit (shen). Keep them inside and guarded. Projecting a fantasy externalizes Shen, and engages the spirit in a way that does not lead to a peaceful heart and a relaxed mind. Above they called it excess feelings.

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You can see how just little old Yin & Yang combine to make bigrams, then trigrams, then hexagrams, which represent all the permutations of yin-yang combinations underlying reality - the whole point of the YiJing (I Ching) & why it's a divination text, but IMO, also real 😘. 5/5

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Ok, here's a little Classical Chinese translation riddle for those who engage in this kind of fun: I'm studying the etymology of this character 厥 in this context: 逆之則傷腎，春為痿厥，奉生者少 Unschuld translates it "receding qi" or "recession" which I like. So far, I got:

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3) Or why you find, in a Legalist-leaning text, the Guanzi, the most beautiful spiritual chapters, like the NeiYe, which focuses on emptying the heart of worries in order to uncover the Dao that resides within.

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Where do you fall on this visualization spectrum map? And which Eastern philosophy do you enjoy most? (Or is most akin to your approach to life) A- Daoism B- Buddhism C- Confucianism (Keeping it to 3 for simplicity but you’re welcome to give other answers) I’ll start: 1,A

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#1 … I can see, feel, taste, and smell the apple 😂 There are people who can’t?

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@ZhaiXiang5 Beautiful! In 296 BC I believe states were choosing 1 element as their representative element & hoping for auspicious omens in nature indicating that their element was being supported & would rise to power. I wonder, did Zhongshan identify like that? Mountains could be Metal.

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2/ That's why you always find political comments in spiritual texts, like the Dao De Jing.

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What’s up with all the spiritual folk in any tradition hanging out with prostitutes? Why is that a thing?

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@nosilverv If you want esoteric reasons, in Classical Chinese medicine, the face reflects the state of the heart. Socializing is like bringing summer, flowering energy to the body. So the face is like a bloom. If you enjoy socializing and it feeds your heart, it will show in the face.

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It continues to astound - how intertwined spirituality & politics are in Chinese history. They’re always engaged in a perpetual tango. I find it crazy that some of the best spiritual instructions on the HEART come from a LEGALIST fa text, the Guanzi. Look at some chapter titles

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5) Inspired leadership is such a pivotal pursuit, that even constellations in China's sky are largely bureaucratic & "Humans follow Heaven". Here you see circumpolar stars, visible year-round. The sky revolves around the Emperor at the center of the Purple Forbidden Enclosure.

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•PRACTICES: "Sweeping Clean the Lodging Place of the Spirit” "Cleaning your Profound Mirror" "Fasting the Mind" "Sitting and Forgetting" (my fave)💛 •RESULTS: tranquility (静 jìng) calmness (安 ān) stillness (寂 jì) repose (寧 níng) equanimity (齊qí or 平píng) emptiness (虛xū)

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Yin is analogous to matter, material. Yang is analogous to energy.

Physics In History

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Einstein explains his mass-energy equivalence relation ✍️

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….aaaaand she’s back. Hello world. Tried a 3-day “Fasting the Mind” mini retreat experiment. For an information addict, it was a terrifying idea. Here’s how it went:

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This is an insanely cool graphic of Ruist thought (Confucian). Kudos @Solzi_Sez . I want one for the Daoists!

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The Lineage of the Way (daotong 道統)…

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Using yarrow sticks to cast hexagrams was the preferred method of divination during the Zhou. After casting a hexagram, it could be interpreted using the YiJing (I Ching) Below is a link explaining how to use the yarrow sticks. Now you can buy them on Etsy. 😂 Good luck!

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Edo era jobs: Taoist diviner, insect cage maker, watermelon salesman and tatami maker. The divination involves using the yarrow sticks.

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@RihitoPhysicist Shimpei Tominaga was not beaten for being Asian. He was a friend of my friends, lived in Udine, was well known & liked in the artist communities. A Ukrainian guy was bleeding, asked for help running into a kebab place where S was. A gang…

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What if your heart, if not messed with, underneath, is spontaneously and naturally, full, replete, complete? That’s what proto-Daoists thought before the Dao De Jing & Zhuangzi. Supposedly if you let go of your BS (worries, joy, anger, yearning) you’d find your heart is full.

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6) Good governance extends even into medicine, where the body is sometimes seen as a bureaucratic state. The Heart is the Emperor of the body. If heart/ spirit are well, all the other organs are well. Each organ is able to properly fulfil their role of governance of the body.

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@mirkohumbert Oof. Great question. On the one hand, there's THE Way (Dao) ie the Dao De Jing, non-dual Dao. One the other hand, ancient texts talk about things having "a Way", which implies an orderly, natural, inherent way. It's this second small Way which the rituals try to attune to

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it's like Neidan Inner Alchemy practices but instead of transforming Jing (essence) into Qi (energy) then Shen (refined heart/mind/spirit), you're supposed to transform menstrual blood (Xue) into Qi then Shen... ... UNTIL YOUR BREASTS DISAPPEAR!😳 WTF?

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@x1ngwu The idea of the circular heavens and square earth is also the basis of the Han Dynasty diviner’s board. But it’s so vivid when brought to life in architecture! 🙏

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Why are ancient Chinese seasons different than Western seasons? It all starts with the GNOMON. This device casts a shadow. The high-rising sun in the summer casts the shortest shadow & the low-rising sun in the winter, casts the longest shadow at noon. In yin- yang terms: 1/

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As crazy as it may seem in Europe where it's still jacket and sweater cold - we have officially entered Summer according to the ancient Chinese SOLAR calendar where Solstices & Equinoxes mark the APEX of each season. May 5th, Cinco de Mayo, was "the Start of Summer" Lì Xià 立夏.

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I was looking for love (agape) in the Dao. I needed to know what to do with my heart during meditation. I finally found my answer in the Neiye (inner內 work業) part of the Guanzi text 管子 from ~350 BC. It’s All about the💗 from a Daoist perspective!! 🤩 & it’s sooo soothing.

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You know what’s conspicuously missing from Daoist discussions? Love We have a ton about Sagehood, immortality, equanimity, insight, governance, health, longevity, sexology, nature, the universe, magic, omens, inner cultivation, qi mastery Where’s love? @edwardW2 @MichaelMjfm

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Apparently it helps to meditate more precisely.🧐 It’s easier to connect to the specific frequency or mood of a visualized deity than to feel an abstract concept. Then, put that deity inside the body, and “feed it” and voilà… you’re adjusting internal sensations.

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but without getting all electrical and difficult about it, you can see how different amounts of Yin (earth, cold, matter) & Yang (sun, warmth, energy) interacting generate all the variety we have on earth (the 10,000 things). Here you can see it clearly as the "slope effect" 4/5

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7/7 Enlightened leadership was a beautiful thing to ponder. Below is its promised result, according to the Huainanzi. Everyone has what they need, without "angry struggle" or excess physical strain. Aligned with Heaven & Earth, the seasons flow properly too & bestow gifts.🩶

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...oriented horizontally, when "the 2" (Yin & Yang) interact, and in their interaction, become "the 3" (the TaiJi), you can easily translate that to the Yin & Yang of Earth & Sky (the 2), interacting, and giving birth to all varieties of manifested reality. Moreover...2/5

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For ex, Telluric currents, flowing parallel to Earth's surface, in the lithosphere, can be seen as a Yang & Yin interaction between the sun (solar wind, radiation, atmospheric e-) and the earth (tidal forces, geomagnetic activity). How cool it is that, Yin/Yang making Qi? 3/5

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@shu_wang_gong Ha. Also true. A simple "Love one another" turned into the Vatican etc.

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When a flower is no longer a flower but a living example of ancient Daoist cosmology made visible. I hike slowly in my Daoist naturalist POV. Here’s what I see when I walk, Summer’s flowering giving way to Fall’s contracting and dying, yin and yang separating, as it should be:

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As an integrative CCM doc, I use ancient Chinese prescriptions (herbs, food & Qi) for timeless problems. Besides heroic amounts of sẽx to heal fantasising/ masturb, the SuNüJing (~200BC) prescribes Sulfur & Deer Antler. Sound silly? Like we’re missing eye of newt? Here’s why🧵:

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In Spring we should be relaxed, look towards life. In Summer, we should be most outgoing, beautiful. In Autumn, we pull our energy back in, enjoy harvest, and calm down. Equanimity is a good autumn mood. In Winter, we isolate with our loved ones in cozy warmth.

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Ok. So I think I’m going to try a little 3-day experiment. I’ve had this on my mind for a while but I keep chickening out. It’s called “Fasting the Mind”. You try to stop thinking to the best of your ability and especially clear out thoughts that encroach on the heart.

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Did you know that "Qi" comes in many varieties? There's 'Zheng Qi', that healthy energy that protects you when you're strong and out in a blizzard, v 'Xie Qi' that yuck energy you feel outside on a day you know you'll get sick if you're not careful. Here's a list of diff Qi👇...

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There are still humans on this planet like these African nomads who can collectively sense when a spirit is whole & present and when it is not. Apparently it can be clear as day. SuWen says it was easy to cure people with this kind of lifestyle. They were not tangled up inside.

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I had a friend visit a nomadic tribe in Africa, and when he started thinking about what he was going to do next, the whole tribe stopped the conversation. When he asked what happened, they said they were waiting for him to come back. What would your life be like if you

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Now, China is one of the lowest consumers of milk.

Milk supply per person

Average per capita milk supply, measured in kilograms per person per year. This includes the milk equivalents of dairy products made from milk ingredients, but excludes butter.

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@NeiJingLover

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@x1ngwu Absolutely fascinating!!! Very cool post. It’s funny. Just today I was reading about hallucinogen use in ancient China and I learned that references to feather wearing beings and riding dragons could be how they experienced magic mushrooms. maybe this story had a little help? 😉

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@NeiJingLover

5 months

You know those paintings of Ancient Chinese guys flying on dragons? Apparently they might have been some Daoists or shamans up a mountain tripping balls 😂 so it’s not all as sober🧘🏻‍♂️as it seems. They are the Transcendents &🍄 may have played a role.👉

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@rulesofchinese @XianyangCB @CiaoCiaota @MichaelMjfm @ZhaiXiang5 It starts w the Dao and essentially keeps subdividing the universe - so into 2 - yin Yang - then into 4 … 4 seasons… then into 5 phases, Wu Xing and finally into 6 - the 3 yin/3 Yang etc until we arrive at the human nested in nature surrounded by planets, tones,stems & branches

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Here’s the crazy bit to me: Over hundreds of yrs, you compile a kick-ass nature-based system that is scalable, redundant, coherent w the Dao & can concretely prove its forecasting power 🤯 but then decide… meh… I need little & big gods? Why? What’s the added benefit?

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@NeiJingLover

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Question for the Classics folks: researching hairstyle meaning in the Suwen. Do u know the significance of loose hair v bound hair? From this search👇I see binding hair was part of mourning rituals. (at least for the father) so was it assoc w death? Was loose hair barbarian?...

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This was written by one of my teachers, Heiner Fruehauf, for the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown U on the History of Qi (🔗ALT) IMO, it's what's behind Daoist longevity, immortality & healing. If you know Dao, you know the secret of energy becoming matter. More later.

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@NeiJingLover

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Ancients used weaving metaphors to describe the organization of the body. The warp, vertical threads, are primary /fundamental structures around which others organize. Think abdominal aorta or spinal cord for western minds. The 12 meridians are the warp threads of the East.

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@UndergroundAeon

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@mirkohumbert That being said, there's a quote somewhere in the Xunzi, a Confucian text, which says that leaders are supposed to be enlightened & show people The Way. But since the Dao is hard to know, in the absence of wisdom, we need ritual to keep order & not throw society into chaos.

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This is so true. tai chi is a wonderful way to somatically enter the sensation of flowing, so often a meditative goal. As an ex flamenco dancer, I always struggled w the flowy part of it. My teacher would always be correcting my rigidity, which just made me want to stomp!💃😂

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@WuXingWarriors

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Doing of #taichi should be as smooth as the passing of time, as one second leads into the next without glitch, like the smooth passage of the seasons, one into the other, the movements of Tai chi must flow like waves and waves. That is.

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Crazy! A woman's EGG CHOOSES ONE GUY's sperm over another guy's sperm. The egg repels the ones she doesn't want & decapitates the rest.😳 It's a great example of discovering the lǐ (natural order) of egg & Jing (essence/semen) To me, science is the work of exposing & seeing lǐ.

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@isjuustadream

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The notion that human sperm once ejaculated, begin a frantic race to reach the egg has overshadowed the real story of reproduction. A short 🧵

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If we think of the Sun as the ultimate source of Yang, then summer solstice becomes the point of maximum sunlight & MOST YANG. While winter solstice has the least amount of sunlight, and is thus, MOST YIN. This is the basis of the idealised model. Et voilà: "THE 4 DIRECTIONS"

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This was a super interesting take on gods and how to think of deities. Dipping one pinky toe in these waters. It’s a complete reframe from my habitual Daoist natural science perspective.

Edward Butler

@EPButler

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It’s a deeply ingrained notion in the modern West that Gods are invented, instead of discovered. It’s not a matter here of “anthropomorphisation”, but of the normal process in any science of becoming increasingly better acquainted with the object of inquiry.

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God, I’m loving the NeiYe. So, yesterday I posted about the natural state of the heart being “full”. We can’t feel it because it’s covered up & perturbed by all our daily shite. But what is the heart“full”of?? THE Dao! 🙌😲 Seems like we’ve been waaay overcomplicating things!

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@NeiJingLover

2 months

What if your heart, if not messed with, underneath, is spontaneously and naturally, full, replete, complete? That’s what proto-Daoists thought before the Dao De Jing & Zhuangzi. Supposedly if you let go of your BS (worries, joy, anger, yearning) you’d find your heart is full.

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5/ Unfortunately, it also perpetuates that🤢sleep with a young virgin girl to improve the health of a man🤮, young girls being a source of intact yin and heavenly gui. I'd say, choose another route to health, guys. The non-rhino horn/ virgin girl/human sacrifice path.

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6/ Thing is, yin & yang are NESTED in this system. So you have yin yang of the seasons at the same time as yin yang of 24 hrs. Essentially it’s the yin yang of revolution + yin yang of rotation. Effects are additive or subtractive for any given hour during any season.

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Has anybody had the experience of a matrix, like a net of yellow light covering everything during meditation? I would love to know what that is & learn about it within some formal tradition, if it sounds familiar to anyone. It came up in one of @jimfanara ’s lovely chats.

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@NeiJingLover

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I like collecting these … people’s experiences with the DDJ. Thousands of years of people having that same experience from a few cryptic words is an amazing thing.

thermo

@DionysianAgent

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reading these books have given me some of the largest epiphanies & inspirations in my life. Especially the first 2 it's hard to explain some of these books just literally reading them felt like I was tapping into the divine source and getting revelations in my mind, some of

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9/ Once you decide on your 2 extremes, the maxima & minima, you can apply it to many things, like a waxing & waning moon: 3 yang for the brightest moon 3 yin for a dark new moon. See “lake” w 2 yang lines? Yang is growing there. See “wind”? A yin line entered from the bottom.

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Sometimes I have a hard time reconciling the idea that one should experience equanimity when immersed in Dao w partying Daoist immortals (xiān). How would equanimity lead one to WANT to party? Then I remember that a sage can even wage war in line with the Dao. Its complicated.

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@NeiJingLover

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Watch lǐ 理 (spontaneous natural order) in action.

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@Andercot

17 days

Biological systems at the molecular level are impossibly advanced nanotech that we are hopelessly far from engineering ourselves from scratch.

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So many Chinese cosmological sources were simultaneously concerned with governance. They topics seem like quite separate endeavors in the West. But were they? The formidable stately opulence of empires. Vienna.

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@ZhaiXiang5 The positioning of the 3 rings reminds me of the 3 powers /origins 三才 (San Cai): • 天 (Tian) heaven • 地 (Di) earth •人 (Ren) human Of course, with the human figure in between - in the realm of interaction between heaven & earth.

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Wow! This is the natural order revered by Daoists. The flower’s field has a (-) charge. The bee, a (+) charge. When the bee flies into the flower, the field changes. Here, it’s converted to sound & perceived. Nature is so perfectly balanced in ways we can’t even imagine.

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@Rainmaker1973

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Did you know? [📹UK TV Play Yesterday]

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Does your doctor look into your eyes? Try to see your spirit, understand your being? In ancient China, this was a standard of good medicine. Imagine being seen like that? Whole? Those who tried to heal the body as a meat suit (from its physicality) were 'low level' physicians.

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@NeiJingLover

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Have you ever looked deeply into your own eyes? Have you ever checked how the light in your eyes is doing? Did you know that you can see right away if a thought or belief is good for you or sucking the life out of you? Shèn, or spirit-mind, shines through the eyes, telling.

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Enjoy this great post about CHIASTIC structure. I was not aware of this term but it also describes the structure of the DAO DE JING. I remember discovering this organically when I first read it and it was an indescribable pleasure to stumble upon multidimensional meanings.

𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝔳𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫

@DanielvsBabylon

6 months

The book of Revelation uses a chiastic structure. Unless someone is aware of this it is highly likely whatever they deduce from the text is incorrect. Not only Rev, but many other verses, passages, chapters, are written in the same manner. A chiasmus involves presenting a

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This is a brilliant question with really interesting answers. It’s funny how many descriptions fit the classical descriptions of a Daoist immortal. I enjoy posts where modern experiences match ancient concepts. It makes it more real & present, not so far off & theoretical.

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@gptbrooke

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What characterizes cool people, to you? Like what aspects or traits do all the people you think of as cool have in common My assumption is that there’s a lot of variance but I bet there are some core commonalities, if not universals

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Ming dynasty “joie de vivre”. Trying to seek the most pleasure brings up questions about how to truly enjoy oneself. Turns out, whether with one or many, paid or not, a genuine respect for the other seems to be an essential ingredient for pleasure.

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@moghilemear13

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THE MECHANISMS OF WHORING AND GAMBLING《嫖赌机关》 One of the most romantic, charming books I’ve read also has one of the crudest names possible. Written by Shen Hongyu, a late Ming opera singer, only a few copies survive today, preserving a magical moment in Chinese history 1/x

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@mirkohumbert By noticing & honouring the natural order in manifested reality, you're supposed to come into closer harmony with non-dual Dao. Ritual is like tuning a guitar -At first the string is nowhere near the right sound, then you turn the knob & eventually you're on the right wavelength

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2/ Now in terms of yin & yang, summer, with all that sun and heat is most yang. Winter, with all that darkness and cold is most yin.

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14/ in Huang Lao Daoist thought and Chinese medicine there are a million warnings against overthinking. It hurts the heart and digestion the most. It’s one thing to study this info and another to practice. I decided to take the Neijing advice & as always, it proved to be wise.

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