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Mazu worshipper

a flag for anyone who worships Mazu,the Chinese goddess of the sea !

any religion is free to use this as long as you worship her (duh)

exclusive to bodily Chinese and Taiwanese people !

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To attain loftiness without limiting aspiration; to become cultivated without humaneness and righteousness; to be regulated without accomplishment and reputation; to find leisure without rivers and oceans; to attain longevity without relying on Daoyin; to forget everything and lose nothing, at ease in Non-differentiation (wuji ) and according with everything beneficial—this is the Way of Heaven and Earth, the inner power (de) of the sage.

So it is said, limpidity, silence, emptiness, and nonaction—these are the levelness of heaven and earth, the substance of the Dao and inner power. So it is said, the sage practices cessation. With cessation comes stable ease. With stable ease comes limpidity. With stable ease and limpidity, care and worry are unable to enter, and denoviant qi (xieqi ) is unable to afflict. Thus one’s inner power is complete and one’s spirit is unhindered. (Zhuangzi, Chapter 15; see also ibid., Chapter 3; Baopuzi, DZ 1185, Chapter 5; Despeux 1989: 246)

This text emphasizes apophatic meditation with the goal of mystical union with the Dao and “longevity without relying on Daoyin.” From this we can see that although classical Daoits recognized the value of Daoyin [movement, stretching, and breathing exercises], they considered this to be an inferior practice.