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If you duck the issues and don’t pay full attention in life… then when thoughts and feelings occur in (and “as”) you, you will not attend to them completely and fully. To attend to thoughts and feelings completely (as they occur) there is intense observation without separation, without the indifference of distance. In looking fully and attentively, which is deep learning, there need not be mere judgment, condemnation, or control according a learned authority at some (supposed) distance (be it external or internal).
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[Note: Paleontologists have been saying that birds are a branch of dinosaurs that survived the great extinction event. A close-up of this duck shows what eerily looks like dinosaur raptor teeth. The tooth-like structures are really lamellae… sieve-like projections that help to extract edible items, such as seeds or insects, away from mud or sand. They also may be beneficial for defense. Duckasaurus rex!]
Duck Teeth. Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2015
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My goodness Tom! What a timely message for me this morning! I was just expressing similar thoughts to a young person – your words helped me feel as if I had made the right decision to confront the issue. 🙂
Excellent, Lori! 🙂 Too many merely teach young people “what to think”… (rather than “how to think and intelligently observe” without mere blueprints).
Wow – I’ve never seen duck ‘teeth’ before! Must be a close relative of archaeopteryx! 🙂
They really are! 🙂
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