I’ve found many similarities between the two as well. Including a balance between masculine and feminine in cosmology.

Do you have any recommendations for channels with good content on those systems?

me too!!!

Totally agree with you!!

Working primarily off the received text, but comparing to the MWD and making adjustments as I go. 😊 Yes definitely something I've been working on. 😊

@@BenebellWen I would love to see your translation of the text where you go line by line, 1st Chinese characters, then English transliteration of that line, then finally your English rendering/translation of that line. Just as you do in this and other videos.

I would love to see this in writing for reflection.

It honestly seems that woman are taken a notch higher than men in it. Mainly because all this cannot be without the feminine. The feminine Dao gave birth to all. The Godess Nuwa is the reason for humanities creation on a personal lvl. And our mothers are those who nourish us and give birth to us… womans body’s and suppleness compared to men also fits closer to the Dao.. the list goes on… It honestly makes most sense… and it does all this without degrading men.

Lol, here in Vietnam, Daoist Ruist thought mix well with Catholicism and I have never heard such a feminist toxicity sentiments ever spewed

@@Peppers_mintus the thing about Catholicism and other Christianities in other country’s. They have evolved completely different from the traditional Catholicism as it exists in Europe. As well as if you read the Bible, it’s very much biased towards men. Traditionally, a lot of Catholicism’s and other Christian’s wouldn’t be considered by westerners to be authentic Christianity. I watched a video called, “Around the world in 80 faiths.” It was very eye opening in how extremely different and oddly not Christian the Christianity of eastern country’s and and even African country’s are. They are literally a new kind of hybrid religion. The ppls indigenous religion fused with Christian symbols and names but hardly much to do with Christianity in its original form.

@@Peppers_mintus if and when you actually read the Bible and then compare that to what people believe about the Bible and what they do, you’ll find that it’s not the same as the Bible. Some similarities but not the same.

Infact, it’s these many things that exist in the Bible and Quran and a few other western religions that you’ll see that atheists attack them the most. Apologetics is very popular in those religions cus these religions need it. For example, You’ll never see an atheist attack Daoism or shintoism. If you do, it’s only ever because of one thing, pseudoscience. But there is no real point to attack a belief system for such a petty reason. This is why you only see atheists attack and referring to abrahamic faiths or other cults like those faiths. And many of these atheists come from those faiths… you hardly every see an atheist that comes from the eastern and Native American faiths, with the exception of Hinduism, that will actively attack those eastern faiths. Mostly you find respect. Further on Hinduism. Hinduism is a dicey religion to attack cus that word is an umbrella term for many religions within and around India. Many traditions and texts. In that faith it is easy to say that you simply don’t follow the backward traditions in sanatana Dharma(Hinduism). So even in that faith not many atheists attack it cus that faith is open to many paths to the truth and it is easy to evolve in that faith and leave behind the archaic beliefs because of their openness to seeking truth and many paths

These are my own translations, and I provide the original classical Chinese to show my work. :-) This is from the received text. But I think there are a couple of word edits per the new discoveries we found from the MWD version. So I think in one of the slides I provided multiple versions of the English translation and did cite each of the different translators. Where there are no citations to translators, it's my own. :-)

@@BenebellWen thank you so much. You put in a lot of work with your research and teachings. All of us are better for it. ❤💯💥

@@BenebellWen Any chance you will publish your translation?

I'm not sure there is such a thing as a most authentic translation. What do you mean by authentic? Even if you want to study the TTC in its native language, most scholars will reference multiple commentaries. So in terms of an English translation, you might say something like this translation is more aligned with XYZ commentary, and departs from the orthodox view espoused by ABC commentary, etc.

Ha! True.@@BenebellWen i stand corrected....totally see your point....which is why we love your work. I do find multiple perspectives valuable...I guess I just want to avoid bastardized versions of knowledge as much as possible.

I like Yang Jwing Ming's version. I would look for someone who at least references the original Chinese or ancient Taoist scholars. It is also helpful if the author understands Taoism and doesn't approach the translation from a western theological perspective. I have seen many translations that are a few times removed from the original that are very elaborate and far from the Taoist meaning. I also check the first few lines and if it says anything besides a simple "the tao that can be described/named is not the eternal tao" then I know someone just likes to hear themselves talk.

@@Chattepliee Thank you so much I appreciate it

Every translator cannot help but bring their own perspectives. And how they translate is based on the range of their subject matter knowledge and expertise. Whenever feasible, my general recommendation is to work off of multiple translations and refer back and forth between them. It's also helpful to look up the background in biography of the translators to get a better sense for how they might approach translation and interpretation. I'm also working on my own, which I'll release to the public at some point. 😊

Thank you for your reply and advice. I look forward to your book. @@BenebellWen

@@BenebellWenWould love to have a Tao te Ching book translated by you. I am immensely enjoying your, I-Ching book.

Thank you so much! ❤️

So true

Funny because I came across your work through searching for information on Etteilla's tarot deck but I have had a relationship with the I Ching for decades. Fortunate crossing paths with your work!

Haha I love that, and resonates with my own researching and reading experiences. 😅 I go down one rabbit hole only to find another to go down. 😅

감사합니다. 💜🐚🐉🦋🦜🙏

Yes! For sure! And I love that you highlighted this so now I can see this as well! What a great insight, Dr. Gao! ❤🙏😊

I am so happy to have come across your channel and find you. It is a privilege to be able to explore the wonders hidden in Chinese philosophies and culture with someone like you. It is magical!@@BenebellWen

Well said.

Feminism isn’t about division, mate. 😉

​@@NathanHenriquefa so is Masculinism bucko

I have that one. It’s a nice Daoist text.

Another good book is The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu Translation by Wilt L. Idema

I'm doing the translations. :-) So they are my own.

Oh excellent! I hope to see it in print soon!

Thank you so much for your generous donation! And yes, there has been quite a bit of buzz over the trending MWD manuscripts! I think I vaguely recall some of them getting translated into English, but I didn't really pay attention. I do know they're fairly readily available online in Chinese. ❤️

@@BenebellWen I really look forward to your interpretation. And next few videos on this topic.

Oh how interesting to call them hexagrams. In the TTC I think they're typically just referred to as verses. I've also seen chapters. But first time hearing the reference to hexagrams. 😊

@@BenebellWen I have a Cantonese influence from when I was a child in Hong Kong Perhaps thats where I get hexagram and Hokka with an O. Thank you so much for your work Benebell I am learning lots 🙏🌻🐝❤️

Exactly, these are illustrations of principles not "feminism" which is a modern interpretation projected back into an ancient text, a mistake often made in contemporary analysis. I wonder if the ancient sages would agree with contemporary 3rd wave feminism.

You can barely speak of "modern feminism", because they all disagree with eachother as well (though this is less prevalent than discussions between feminists and conservatives). There are people who identify as "feminist" that see the portralyal of women with only masculine traits as sexist There are feminists who think that P is demeaning to women There are feminists who see P as sexually liberating There are feminists who made all those characters that act like dudes some think that acting like Tomboys have their masculine traits "pushed on them by society" is demeaning others write women without any traditionally feminine traits and all of these people contradict eachother with the only throughline being that they think that their version of feminism empowers women.

@@Overwriter The bigger battle in women today is the integration of their inner masculine. Lashing out after the evil patriarchy or traditional gender roles expresses the imbalance within. Reality around you is always a reflection of you and there is never a justified resentment. If you like to experience something else, you must let go of your own limiting beliefs, hurt and pain. And men are not holding these women back. They are not living in Saudi Arabia. To the extent they are held back, it is themselves. I know, accountability is terrifying, it is so much easier just to blame everyone else, it really is awful - this thing called the world of adults.

She’s reading directly from the text. Relax.

@@ViolaVoltairine Yes. Please forgive me Goddess.