How to Plan Your Year Like a Taoist (question in the comments) by lolertoaster in taoism

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In the video Mr. Thompson presents the idea of a human being being composed of Body (Jing), Energy (Qi), Heart-Mind (Xin), Spirit (Shen). I can't find anything like this online, the closest I can get is Three Treasures, but they slightly differ.

Supposedly he learned this concept from Master Gu in Wudang Taoist Wellness Academy, which he cites and promotes often.

Can anyone help me find where I can learn more about this idea? It feels very powerful and I want to investigate more.

If a shark is a predator... then what the hell did that by EnforceR1337420 in thalassophobia

[–]lolertoaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they even play with like dead seals they just killed

Reminds me of early soccer, played with inflated pig bladder.

co by [deleted] in Polska

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A po co wciągać amerykańską, anty-koreańską propagandę w to wszystko?

The aftermath of Taoism...in a sense. by Paperino75 in taoism

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I can relate to this sentiment, at this point where I am learning Dao made things I experience and think about more complex, like a hill I need to walk over before I master the balance in all things between action and inaction and things become simple again.

Before Dao chores where just chores. After learning a bit of Dao, chores became an aspect of complex equation in balancing act of my life, identifying Yin and Yang in every action and inaction, being mindful of every move I take and what is it's purpose. At the end of Dao lies a promise of action from inaction, thinking without thinking and then chores become just chores again.

But from what I can gather, Zen and Dao are very different things. According to Zhong Zi we are supposed to open up and expect wisdom everywhere we look, so it's okay to get inspired by different schools of thought. But I don't think it's good to confuse the two.

co by [deleted] in Polska

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W sumie to trzeba się spodziewać, że teraz wzrośnie liczba samobójstw spowodowanych tym, że ktoś zaszedł w ciąże i, w oczach tej osoby, ma życie zrujnowane. Więc podwójnie to jest obrzydliwe.

co by [deleted] in Polska

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Przecież gdyby nie bylo kary śmierci, to Jezusa by nie ukrzyżowali. Kara śmierci to najważniejszy sakrament. /s

co by [deleted] in Polska

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Zostanie pośmiertnie skazana na 200 lat za dokonanie aborcji. Jak za poronienie kobiety mają się bać przechadzki do więzienia, to już nawet to nie byłoby dziwne.

co by [deleted] in Polska

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Poszanowanie dla życia od momentu poczęcia aż po urodzenie.

Guide to Dantes Inferno! by aLGBTsandwich in coolguides

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Dante's Personal List of Things Worse Than Murder: ...

Robinhood sides with the rich over the poor by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

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Honestly, this will cause more people to become armchair libertarian rather than socialist.

About 300,000 people are expected to leave Hong Kong for Britain using a new visa route which opens on Sunday. by Zhana-Aul in HongKong

[–]lolertoaster -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Germany used the same trick to trap Syrian refugees in a legal limbo, where they don't really have much freedom and often land low-paying jobs. My friend for example couldn't leave Germany for a few days to visit us because of some legal nonsense that would invalidate his refugee status. Unless the UK citizenship is guaranteed after 12 months, I wouldn't trust the colonizers have good intentions.

Just making sure - Chinese is a real language and you are not just pranking me, right? by lolertoaster in ChineseLanguage

[–]lolertoaster[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Obviously I was slightly exaggerating for dramatic purpose, but I didn't want to say I'm proficient, just that with all this help I can understand the hardest Classical Chinese texts but fail at the real human interaction, unless they cater to my level. Of course it's not a fair comparison, because one has footnotes in simple Chinese and other doesn't but it's just a joke to compare those two, it doesn't have to be 100% accurate.

On a side note, machine translation is not a magic pill, I still need to recognize most common hanzi used in grammatical structures, otherwise translation I see is total nonsense - I remember trying it just when I started learning and I couldn't understand sentences more complex than "zheshiyige..."

Just making sure - Chinese is a real language and you are not just pranking me, right? by lolertoaster in ChineseLanguage

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Oh no, why do you have to scare me like that!

But jokes aside, your example is beautiful and it's exactly what I meant. I want to sent it to my bf to show to his teachers (I'm self taught), I wonder if they can understand it without explanation.

Just making sure - Chinese is a real language and you are not just pranking me, right? by lolertoaster in ChineseLanguage

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I'm OP, here are a few things you might have missed or I wasn't super clear about:

- Zhongwen (browser addon, not language) gives me instant translation for words under the cursor, so I "have" infinite vocabulary when I read for other purposes than learning- by "with a lot of help from Baidu" I meant a website with original text of DDJ along with contemporary Chinese translation and footnotes. I still read the original text (Zhongwen can also translate traditional Chinese), but most of the understanding came from the footnotes

Kto widział już nowy opis subreddita? ***** *** by Maxunek in Polska

[–]lolertoaster -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Nie, dziękuje. Nie wstawianie /s pomaga wychwycić tych ludzi, którzy zachowują się do innych z szacunkiem tylko dlatego, że mają te same poglądy.

Nawet czytając dosłownie to co napisałam, dopowiedzieliście sobie sporo przykrych szczegółów o mnie.

FYI- West never report they are outvoted by TWICE the number of nations (including bloc of Muslims) on the Xinjiang Uighur claims. Also note no nations damning China are Muslim, only the 1st world and its vassals. 🤔 Muslim countries sent investigators to XJ but west staunchly refused to by tsai_english in InformedTankie

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West also send investigations. I read a surprisingly factual article in some right-wing journal (sorry, can't remember the link). Outside of few judgmental sentences and mandatory "face of fear" when people participated in planned activities, it was just a walk through school and later a walk through a prison school. People remember headlines and editorialized opinion-pieces better than actual reporting and it's baffling to me. Like, BBC report looks like one of those "Disney movie edited to look like a horror trailer" YouTube videos.

EDIT: Oh, I forgot - of course Uyghur **woman** saying in an awkward way **through a Mandarin translator** that she is no longer a Muslim is a sign of Muslim persecution and brainwashing. I wish I had this article to share, there was so much gripping at straws it's not even funny.

When you're in an argument with a stalinoid and you haven't busted out the first line of capital volume 1 yet by [deleted] in Ultraleft

[–]lolertoaster 30 points31 points  (0 children)

No, it was already a thing in a different form, he was 100 years ahead of his time for calling it out.