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In shadows where thoughts collide, the ink spills forth, a restless tide. Unruly whispers, tangled and raw, echo the chaos, a silent law. Each stroke a stumble, a dance unplanned, like wandering steps on shifting sand. Yet in the mess, a truth may gleam, from the depths of the mind, a fractured dream. So let the words spill, let them roam, for in the wild, we find our home. Through the clumsy, the awkward, the flawed, we carve our path, and in that, we're awed. (spontaneous poetry by ChatGPT created to @Nungalis last haiku.) & bye for now.

an illusion, ?

hello, it might be my lack of good schooling, but I wondered if there are some other methods of exegesis / interpretation of texts in the asian cultural hemisphere? some stuff comes naturally to me, and others just stays cryptic, no matter which interpretation I use. could you list your methods? thanks.

Could we please get a lightbulb emoji to react with 💡and one that says “there’s more to your post than meets the surface” … I would propose a stone cast in the water drawing circles or the like.⛲️ The lightbulb is different than thanks. Thanks to me is insightful teaching. Lightbulb is something that is interesting but not necessarily path wise and refers to something that has been bothering one for a long time in the dark. Wow is not the “deep!” reaction. Wow is more shock or surprise. Not the deep contemplation or a impulse that influences and gets stronger with time. I don’t want to appear confused all so often!

I find this insightful and it comes as a confirmation of some conclusions I made for myself, as working hypothesis. Just walk your path.

Cutting through means realizing there are none or one. Doesn’t make much difference at that level. but what’s to take from there to functionality? nothing. Can’t make anyone understand it only if they have experienced it themselves. Compassion without an I or with an I. … it leaves straw dogs ? I’m lost here… can someone help please?

What about the diamond sutra and/or the heart sutra? Is it implied there indirectly or am I mis-interpreting? @Taoist Texts pls don’t leave me hanging here… is that correlated to what @stirling meant by reactions to it could either be the recognition of “I AM” or “emptiness/possibilities”? people need to get outta their diamond cage @Mark Foote ? what am I missing here?

feed only the few, obstructed the flow, 為! Dao not de, - why Jing? Dao not de, - why Jing? “To do de t’is to de-stroy?” “To Bum or bee-hive?”

So the snails symbolize given ‘slack‘ in the Knight, he gives himself too much leeway, gains a few pounds and closes an eye from time to time? Lethargy, inactivity, lack of tension. Must the knight always be on guard? Can’t he play the lute from time to time and eat some grapes? 🍇 Extremes (in any ways) are not beneficial, even if discipline might?

light flowers freely going home way beyond the curtain leaves only one, none.

rise, fall, trust, rejoice! bound but free, no force nor fear.light flowers freely.

better dance unbound the soundless sound is boundless rise, fall, trust, rejoice!

let the sound direct! good intentions not all have better dance unbound

is to transgress full! when black seems white, and white black - let the sound direct!

forgetful idiot