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Rethinking the maximalist approach to enlightenment (opens the original)
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Before going into this, I just want to give all due respect to our Daoist and Buddhist friends who do so much to carry on, preserve and even advance their religions, so please take this article as conjecture and not an attack on anyone’s beliefs. You know the article is going to be interesting when it starts like that…Daoism and Buddhism both have well established liberation narratives which inform followers about how past practitioners became free of the negative aspects of the human condition,
Just my opinion (opens the original)
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This is just my opinionThere are two big ways to look at the Yijing:1: Yang generates all things and Yin sets a track for it,2: Yin generates Yang which leads to all things.The Confucian perspective of the Yijing is the former, the Alchemical interpretation is the latter.In this article I want to try to explain why this is the case.1: Yang first approach:Confucians wanted to use the Yijing to explain measurable qualities of phenomena in the context of their development and transformation.We can
A little secret about pre-heaven trigrams (opens the original)
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the fundamental argument about life in Neidan (opens the original)
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Let’s do a speedrun of one of the fundamental arguments Xing Ming Gui Zhi makes about human life (Xing Ming Gui Zhi is the king of all Neidan books and I’ve read it like six times already and teach a year long program about it every year).1: Two types of Ming:Ming/Life/Destiny occurs in the heavens,it also occurs in people.The destiny of the heavens is essentially good since it allows for sentience to occur.The destiny of people is bound by the inheritance of the condition of Qi which forms the
Staying sane during difficult times (opens the original)
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I want to start by saying that I’m by no means qualified to be a social theorist and barely qualified as a spiritual guide, perhaps I’m better understood as a kind of technical coach in the context of a spiritual tradition where you might have other guides such as a Daoist or Buddhist priest, or even your own intuition and reading. Nevertheless, there are aspects of the times we are living through right now which are very emotionally trying and spiritually exhausting and since I have a platform
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