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2 hours ago, BigSkyDiamond said:


Simplify:
 

"The metaphors of sky and spaciousness are often used to describe the nature of mind in Dzogchen."
 

 



The water is clear right through to the bottom;
A fish goes lazily along.
The sky is vast without horizon;
A bird flies far far away.

("Lancet of Seated Meditation", Hongzhi Zhengjue [by imperial designation the Chan Master Spacious Wisdom], tr. Carl Bielefeldt, "Dōgen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation", p 200)

 

 

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1 hour ago, zerostao said:

 

The thread told me, that it is fine for bums to adapt their own meaning/intent and not feel constrained to any box.

 
hermeneutical exegesis

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19 minutes ago, zerostao said:

 

The thread told me, that it is fine for bums to adapt their own meaning/intent and not feel constrained to any box.

 

Evolve

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28 minutes ago, Apech said:

 
hermeneutical exigesis

 

You call it simplifying?..  I had to google!  And I'm not the type who eschews grandiloquence!  

 

Maybe you could start a thread titled "complicate" or something.  

 

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47 minutes ago, zerostao said:

 

The thread told me, that it is fine for bums to adapt their own meaning/intent and not feel constrained to any box.

 

Have at it

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Simplify:


I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral.  I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.  I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical.  About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

 

 

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7 minutes ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

Simplify:


I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral.  I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.  I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical.  About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news, with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

 

 


Pirate

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1 hour ago, Apech said:

De-vice ... remove the evil thereof.

 

 

 

Advice = add vice?  

and...  what does a Vice President preside over??

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21 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

Advice = add vice?  

and...  what does a Vice President preside over??

 

Seems like it could be an interesting gig.

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38 minutes ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

posting on a public forum is in and of itself an invitation and act of soliciting advice.

 

yes and no...

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On 7/23/2025 at 1:36 PM, Taomeow said:

 

You call it simplifying?..  I had to google!  And I'm not the type who eschews grandiloquence!  

 

Maybe you could start a thread titled "complicate" or something.  

 

 

 

must you encourage him..   :P

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8 minutes ago, Mark Foote said:

 

 

must you encourage him..   :P

 

Too late...  he already started a thread titled "Complify."  Not "Complicate," mind you -- to complicate is too simplified for him.  No sir.  "Complify."   

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2 hours ago, Taomeow said:

Too late...  he already started a thread titled "Complify."  Not "Complicate," mind you -- to complicate is too simplified for him.  No sir.  "Complify."   

 

and then there is "Complexicate" which is in the urban dictionary

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8 minutes ago, BigSkyDiamond said:

 

and then there is "Complexicate" which is in the urban dictionary

 

and who's to stop me from deriving "Overcomplexicate" from it.  

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