Difference between Buddhism and Daoism or Taoism

You can understand the essential difference between Buddhism and Daoism from mathematics and music theory.
 
Buddhism is based on the logic of "Neti, neti" and so is from Vedic philosophy - meaning, "neither this, nor that."
 
The math of vedic philosophy is "divide and average" math.
 
The spread of Vedic culture into China is actually quite ancient - from when the Shang making chariot culture as dominant for warfare. First chariots were just for the aristocrats but then chariots were amassed as huge armies.
 
Key to chariot technology is to center the circle based on divide and average math from Vedic ritual geometry that math professor Abraham Seidenberg traced back to around 3000 BCE. The square rectilinear altars were the basis for making the circles the same area as well - so that the female lunar circle principle had to conform to the solar square altar principle. Similarly houses had to be rectilinear, not circular.
 
You can then see how this Vedic culture as meditation alchemy training spread across Asia in Buddhist philosophy by studying Stupas.
 
The Stupa designs reveal the elements of alchemy for meditation training.
 
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/choc/choc06.htm
 
Consider this early analysis.

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The Chinese speak of five elements: water, fire, wood, metal, and earth; while, according to the ancient sages of Hellas and India, there are but four: water, fire, earth, and air. This latter view also
 
p. 42
[paragraph continues] (although in a later age) has migrated to China, where it is commonly accepted among the Buddhists, but has been modified in so far as ether has been superadded so as to make the elements of the Buddhist-Chinese conception equal in number to the older enumeration which we may call the Taoist view.
 

 
Now then actually instead of "divide and average" math which is based on symmetric phonetic logic of the divine from rectilinear geometry - "I Am that I Am" as the definition of Brahman-God - for Taoism, the math is actually akin to the oldest philosophy of India which is the "three gunas."
 
So the Tai Chi is actually from music theory - the number theory of Taoism is actually the same as the number theory of Pythagorean philosphy - and in turn the same as the three gunas - and this is also from music theory.
 
So for the three gunas - sattva is the octave as 1:2 (Emptiness) and raga is the Perfect Fifth (yang) as 3/2 and sattva is yin as the Perfect Fourth.
 
But the deeper meaning of this is called noncommutative phase - or nonlocal consciousness as being in two places at the same time. This was covered up by Western symmetric logic since Plato and Archytas - and so Westerners do not understand this difference.
 
So in noncommutative phase - then  the number value has two different geometric values at the same time - so C is 1 and the octave is 2 as C - but then 3 is F as subharmonic and 3 is G is overtone harmonic.
 
That was covered up in the West so that 2/3 as C to F Perfect Fifth Yang is turned into 4/3 as Perfect Fourth yin.
 
So in alchemy this is called the One Perfect Yang principle - or something to that effect - in music theory is means that internal listening converts the differences in frequency and amplitude into the nonlocal phase resonance - so that the yin energy is resonated into its Yuan Qi yang origin as the truth of reality.
 
So for Western symmetric math  the principle of the Greek Miracle was taken from divide and average math of Zoroastrian-Babylonian logic that is the complementary to Vedic logic.
 
So then ARchytas knew that "arithmetic mean multiplied by harmonic mean equals geometric mean squared." This is how irrational magnitude was created from music theory.
 
But for that symmetric math equation to work as algebra - it had to cover up the noncommutative phase truth.
 
In other words - originally "harmonic mean" was actually "subcontrary mean" but the term got changed as the cover up - when 2/3 as the Perfect Fifth, C to F geometry was changed from the subcontrary or subharmonic to 4/3 as the Perfect Fourth C to F geometry for the harmonic mean.
 
So for Archytas to create his equation for symmetric math of irrational magnitude - the harmonic mean had to have a value greater than 1 - with the numerator higher than denominator.
 
Thereby hiding the older truth of nonlocal noncommutative phase that did not get rediscovered until quantum logic and quantum physics discovered a paradox for frequency and time with relativity of Einstein.
 
There is a book called "From Pythagoras to Einstein" - all that does is expand the square root of two irrational magnitude symmetric math to relativity.
 
But de Broglie realized that as energy goes up in frequency towards the speed of light in relativity then time slows down, so that wavelength gets bigger. That violates the fundamental principle of Pythagoras that time is inversely proportional to frequency.
 
So de Broglie created the Law of Phase Harmony since quantum physics is true but to make it fit relativity it means there has to be a signal that is nonlocal and therefore superluminal.
 
In terms of de Broglie - this means that Time is the Emptiness, and noncommutative phase is the Yuan Qi that is nonlocal - and frequency is the Shen that is "turned around" - so you get the speed of light squared as the Law of Phase Harmony - and the wavelength is the Jing energy.
 
So when shen is put below jing then you get reverse entropy or negentropy as "quantum relative entropy" - the Emptiness is a reverse spacetime vortex that enables precognition, etc.
 
So the older philosophy of the three gunas is actually the truth also of the Tai Chi - and both are from music theory that goes back to the original human culture - the San Bushmen that had the same alchemy training as Taoism and the three gunas of India. All human cultures in fact use the 1-4-5 music intervals as the Octave Perfect Fifth/Perfect Fourth as 1:2:3:4 harmonics.
 
It is the simplest and yet the most powerful - as TAoism teaches.
 
The number theory is real and is from music theory. I have the references in my pdf https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/04/10/idiot-s-guide-to-taoist-alchemy/
 
People argue endless about the real meaning of Buddhism vis a vis Vedic philosophy and Taoism but that is because they have not realized that music theory unlocks the universal truth of human spiritual training.
 
By the way you can find these Stupa Vedic elements even in Burma as the pagoda alchemy training in Buddhism.
 
So the alchemy training again is from the older Bronze Age chariot culture - but this in turn is from an older music theory based philosophy.
 
The secret of OHM is infinite time-frequency resonance from the 1:2:3 octave perfect fifth/perfect fourth music intervals - called the Triguna - I have the details again in the link.


There is an excellent essay on the connection of philosophical Taoism to religious Neidan training - by Zhang Guangbao
 
https://www.scribd.com/document/225213533/Taoism
 
p. 183, originally published 2006, Beijing.
 
Inner alchemy from philosophical Taoism.
 
So he makes the very crucial insight that "yuan qi" actually is "jingqi" - and he cites the evidence for this.
 
So just as I have argued in my pdf - the alchemy practice is the shen turned around so it is "below" the jing - thereby creating the qi - and this is the eternal process.
 
He states indeed - this "jingqi" is the primordial cosmic yuanqi - from this process of the shen being contained internally along with the jing to bring out the qi energy.
 

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Lao-Tzu used jing for distinguishing the Tao and Vacuity.

 
citing chapter 21 of Tao Te Ching.
 
Now - he then states this is philosophy but not science. My pdf actually explains this is the hidden momentum of light when it is "turned around" as "heavy" light or quantum relativity light - the "noncommutative phase" as momentum that is not conserved. The light harvests the virtual imaginary mass particles as a reverse spacetime vortex energy - or quantum relative entropy - negentropy - the Emptiness as the jingqi or yuan qi.
 

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In other words, only though jingqi or the original qi, does the Tao give birth to all things and link physics and metaphysics....The jingqi in the human body could communicate with that of the universe.

http://qigongmaster.com is from the origin of Taoist alchemy training - Mt. Qingcheng
 
There are various lineages from that locale - Zong gong had their training there but then got declared illegal.
 
Wang Liping is from that same Dragon Gate lineage, etc.
 
But still the academic analysis will not focus much on that training - the pdf I posted gives the training details. https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/04/10/idiot-s-guide-to-taoist-alchemy/
 
Religion means "to bind" - yoga means "to yoke" - Taoist yoga - full lotus cave meditation for 49 days - no food, no sleep - people can argue about angels on pin heads and call it religion or just do the meditation full lotus training and not even call it religious. haha. Religion is a western term. Call it "neigong" - or "neidan" or whatever the latest Western marketing term is: Daoyin or alchemy, etc.
 
But if you want a good academic overview - this free book 
Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity

Author:

Palmer, David A.;
Liu, Xun

Editor:

Palmer, David A.;
Liu, Xun

Publication Date:

02-15-2012
- http://escholarship.org/uc/item/13w4k8d4#page-8

Daoism in the Twentieth Century 

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Yuan jing, yuan qi, and yuan shen are Yang in the postcelestial, but are Yin in the precelestial. The are different from the precelestial qi of True Unity, which is indestructible for ten thousand kalpas, transcends all things, and is "the only Honored One." Neither life nor death adhere to it, neither Being nor Non-Being are established in it. This qi is the root of the postcelestial jing, qi, and shen, and the ruler of the precelestial jing, qi, and shen. It is something of the nature of utmost Yang, the Treasure of Heaven. Those who comprehend it are few.

Liu Ming's xiuzhen houbian

tl Fabrizio Pregadio in Cultivating the Dao

​ This is a crucial key secret in the training - what Zong Gong calls the "golden key" of "yin matter" that is superluminal.
 
I saw http://springforestqigong.com in full lotus making individualized spirits to heal each person - they formed on the top of his head - shaped as a human - each breaking off and floating out to heal a person. This is from the full lotus meditation embodying the Emptiness. At this stage also ghosts as yin shen go to get healed by the qigong master.
 
So Yuan Shen are individualized to each person in their body - but as Yan Xin did his healing - the person needs to have sympathetic resonance by turning their own light around to go into the Emptiness as a "virtual information" field as Yan Xin called it. This is a spacetime vortex.

 The trigram of fire ☲ contains postcelestial yang surrounding precelestial yin. This precelestial yin is related to emptiness and I believe is the merging of the precelestial jing,qi,shen. Liu Yiming calls these yuan jing, yuan qi, and yuan shen, yang within the postcelestial, but yin within the precelestial. It is the precelestial yin of emptiness which forms what he calls the dharma-body; the body of the rupadhatu realm.

This is a very good response but requires an indepth analysis.

For example if you study Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality book - the influence of Buddhism and also Confucian terminology causes a deeper analysis to be required.

So the "innate nature" as Xing is actually the Yuan Shen that also is the left eye. But the left eye is also the liver energy as the Hun Soul - which is also the yin qi energy as the Green Dragon.

So if you study the book what you realize is that until the lower tan tien is filled up then the eyes are not united as Sun and Moon but instead are in the jing or yin qi stage of Dragon and Tiger.

In other words you lose energy out of the eyes as yin qi energy and in fact the Hun Soul - as that book details - is actually still the yin qi energy that leaves the skull with the heart shen at death (for the typical person).

Whereas the po soul is the etheric energy of the body as the passion white tiger lung energy of the right eye that is the origin of the yuan qi - again only after the energy is built up.

So the problem is the West fixates on the concept of "oneness" as if it is a static nondual Emptiness whereas the truth is there is eternal movement of time as formless awareness - as the Yuan Qi energy. The end of the Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and immortality book details how the yang shen body then is vaporized back into the formless awareness of the Universe as the Yuan Qi.

So then we are told that the Golden Body yang shen can reappear whenever needed - as chosen by the Yuan Qi  - not by the actual immortal person.

The ego is the spiritual awareness as light consciousness while the Universal consciousness is light - only when it is "turned around."

So we can see this in cosmology as well - there is a 5th dimension that is time-like but is actually nonlocal phase - noncommutative phase. This means being in two places at the same time.

So consider the Yang Shen - it is said multiple yang shens can be created - and even the Yuan Shen healing - the qigong master states how he can do healing around the world of multiple people - at the same time.

But is it really at the same time? I saw him creating Yuan Shen but they were made one after the other, each breaking off from the top of his head - while he was in full lotus meditation.

But for the person with the light turned around into the Emptiness then light itself does not experience time. The qigong master who befriended me describes how time freezes. This in quantum physics is true - when time is zero then there is the nonlocal entanglement.

So with no measurement made by the ego as light perception - the nonlocal light is a wave that is quantum entanglement - as the 5th dimension. But when the measurement is made then the light collapses as a "photon" point that is seen to be contained as form externally.

Similarly Ramana Maharshi says the whole physical universe does not exist when the Self as light is so great that the whole physical universe can not be seen nor experienced. So he gives the metaphor of a film camera as our brain - we need ignorance to see the film of the Universe as our awake consciousness. But in fact the camera relies on the light of the individual soul and yet that light is part of a much brighter light of the real formless awareness.

Ramana Maharshi points out that the formless awareness as Self is NOT light - and yet we have to use our "sattvic" ego mind as spirit to go into the Emptiness and therefore in the Emptiness we still experience this bright light.

So he admits this is a logical paradox that he can't get around - and that is why so many confuse the "light" as being the Self when that is not the truth. The light has a hidden momentum when the light is turned around - Ramana Maharshi calls this the ETHER of the flame of the Self. He says it's like looking at a candle - you see that space between the flame and the candle and that is the ETHER energy of the self that powers the candle, just as the wax powers the light.

So this is the Yuan Qi energy that is formless awareness but because it is noncommutative phase it is also in eternal motion as creation of yuan jing and yuan shen - and so there is endless creation and destruction. You can experience this also by taking strong ayahuasca. haha.

We can say the Soul then is all our past lives but yet these past live connections are probably contextual. So then just like in the Tibetan book of the Dead - after each death there is a better chance of seeing the illusion of the soul in order to go into the Emptiness as the truth of reality. So in other words - the Yuan Shen is our individualized spirit of when the Yuan Jing is developed - so at age 16 is what is said - and so the qigong master does Yuan Shen healing from the Yuan Qi emptiness. So the qigong master also heals ghosts - meaning they are the Hun Shen with Po Shen blockages and so stuck on Earth - and he sends this ghosts into the Emptiness by increasing their light - which means by realizing their Yuan Shen self - just as he does Yuan Shen healing of people alive as well.