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spongin' and bobbin'From: singing ocean
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-05-17 02:14:56
Remote IP: 154.20.44.178
MessageHey sponge,
I agree that most chinese people are not familiar with daoist terms, or understand their context or meaning. I think I already said this in a post above.
The texts I was translating from had recognizable characters that I could find in a dictionary and translate. I am talking about characters, not the pinyin or wade-giles romanization. There are many books that give a good explanation of terms and their context in alchemy. One is "the inner tradition of chinese medicine" by Lonny Jarrett. Eva wong also describes these terms in a number of her books and how they were used in texts.
Of course, it is also important to have some experience as a practitioner to be able to relate to the texts from an experiential basis and so that it is not just a head trip. Michael Winn has also extensively researched the subject and gives a pretty good explanation in his lectures on cosmology, and terms. I have found these to be consistent with all the sources that I have read.
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