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| Aiden
@manimal,
By saying speech is projection, you’re also implying that Lao Tzu was projecting whenever he spoke.
Perhaps speech, when used properly, is more than just projecting, it’s relaying the knowledge you came across when you were still.
It’s a sort of balance. The more time you spend speaking, the less time you spend contemplating, therefore the less information you have available to relay; this is true also of the converse.
However, since all thought, experience, and learning is relative (Einsteins special theory of somethingorother i forget…), everything I have learned for myself to be true, is not the same knowledge and truth that you yourself, nor anyone else, has learned.
Speaking, on the part of those who continuously seek to learn, is simply a tool used to provoke others to find their own relative interpretation of the knowledge that that person is conveying.
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| ELI
@aidenblair, Yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that when you’re speaking you’re projecting and you do not know. You may know something, but when you speak you don’t.
That doesn’t mean Lao is contradicting himself by speaking.
What you say about the time spent speaking is spot-on. It’s either input or output, never both. The more time you spend speaking (or fantasizing, or creating, or whatever) the less time you spend taking in your surroundings.
Yes, we all learn different things differently. We all hold different things to be true.
But if you look beyond that, what do you see?
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| Aiden
@manimal,
When I look beyond what is relative, I can then see how it relates.
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