How Professor JeeLoo Liu solved the mystery of Taoist Neidan Alchemy training

I don't like to complain all the time but is it my fault that Westernized thinking does not see its error? Dr. Pregadio said he would get back to me if he had any comments. I don't think he will get back to me but I'll send him the below - as it completely corroborates my claim. The funny thing is I was just going by logic and mathematics from music theory (nonwestern) whereas Professor Liu exposed the Western error as a translation error of Chinese.

17 hours ago, Kongming said:

 

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The Dao, in its ultimate and Absolute aspect, is metaphysically prior to or above this in timeless purity and empty non-being (wu)

 
So this pretty much sums up your wrong view of Daoism.
 

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The standard translation "the ultimate nonbeing" (Chan, 1963; Neville 1980) or "Ultimate of Nonbeing" (Zhang, 2002) has actually reversed the Chinese word order, and renders it as jiwu - the ultimate wu.

 

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However even within the Daoist tradition, Wang Bi's interpretation of Laozi's wuji (Chapter 28) is simply "inexhaustible" (wuqiong), and this shows clearly he did not identify wuji with wu itself.

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Nevertheless, this does not mean that there was a time when Taiji did not exist....Taiji was initially boundless because its existence was beyond both space and time.
 

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Taiji was initially just one qi, which then separated into yang and yin through motion and rest. ...it was a common view ...to regard Taiji as one qi - before yin and yang are divided.

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vacuums have energy and energy is convertible into mass is to deny that vacuums are empty....vacuums are far from empty. Understood in this light, ...taiji is much more intelligble and plausible.

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...Taiji, the supreme ultimate, is the absolute self-sufficient and self-contained perfection. Exactly because it is relative to nothing else, it is identical with the Boundless (Wuji).

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...Taiji is simply Being itself; hence it is both supremely massive and boundless (wuji).

 
https://jeelooliu.net/

Professor of Philosophy

 

Department of Philosophy

 

California State University, Fullerton

ACPA (The Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America):

President, 2010-2012

 

Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality

JeeLoo Liu

John Wiley & Sons, May 19, 2017

I don't mean this at all judgmentally, but a lot of this stuff just seems too complicated to me.
 
Remember that Taoism emphasizes simplicity.
 
Of course, the problem could be that I'm just not smart enough to understand all this stuff

 
We learn the commutative principle in 10th grade: A x B = B x A. This is incorrect as the foundation of reality.
 
The commutative property was the origin of irrational magnitude and symmetric math, as the Greek Miracle.
 
So it's not that you're not smart enough.
 
You just have to unlearn a lot and really think about basics.
 
So think of music theory.
 
1 is C, 2 is C as the octave, and 3 is G, as the overtone harmonic, but at the same time 3 is F as the subharmonic.
 
This was covered up by Plato and Archytas.
 
So in music theory it means 3/2 as the Perfect Fifth is allowed but NOT 2/3 as the Perfect Fifth. Empirically they are both the Perfect Fifth, C to F is 2/3 and C to G is 3/2.
 
But Archytas needed his equation (Arithmetic Mean x Harmonic Mean equals Geometric Mean Squared). So he could only use fractions with value greater than 1.
 
So the Perfect Fourth is 4/3 as C to F just from "doubling" 2/3 - and thereby concealing and covering up the truth of noncommutative phase.
 
So then 3/2 x 4/3 = 2 (which is geometric mean squared).
 
So then 9/8 cubed = the square root of 2 as the tritone or Devil's Interval.
 
That is the secret of the square root of two - you don't learn that the Pythagorean Theorem is from WRONG music theory that hides the truth of infinite complementary opposites resonance.
 
I have more details on my blog http://ecoechoinvasives.blogspot.com
 
So this secret of complementary opposites from music theory was rediscovered in quantum physics as "time-frequency uncertainty" - I have quoted the mathematician in this thread about 2, 3, infinity being "noncommutative" from music theory.
 
The "noncommutative" part means that it's in 2 places at the same time as complementary opposites - and it is also quantum entanglement.
 
So that is the secret of the Tai Chi - it is before spacetime but creates spacetime and energy-mass from quantum entanglement that is noncommutative.
 
This is now proven by science - it's called EPR=ER.
 
In other words we exist within micro quantum virtual black holes every where as the ether or yuan qi that is the Tai Chi as the fundamental foundation of reality - eternal change as harmonization.

Thanks for sharing this. It's very interesting.
 
Peace.