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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #23552026 - 08/18/16 01:13 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
'Tree' is actually an indeterminate object. At the root level, the micro-hairs cannot be separated from the soil from which it feeds. And even if you could, to remove a tree from its environment is to kill it.

it is like the word "hand". There is no such thing except as a convenient descriptor. A hand removed from the body is not a hand (without nerves and tendons, it performs no functions) - and attached to the body, is not a separate entity that can specifically demarcated.




Actually the question was 'what is a tree made of?'
'not what is a tree?'

perhaps it's odd to point this out?; and perhaps he meant something other that what he posted?

but actually no definition was requested.


In terms of what a tree is your point about connectedness seems valid, but fails to distinguish between a tree and a hand.

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SHUZAN held up his staff and waved it before his monks.

"If you call this a staff," he said, "you deny its eternal life.
If you do not call this a staff, you deny its present fact. Tell
me just what do you propose to call it?"

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Zen Master Seung Sahn held up his staff in front of old Shifu Miao Zhang, and said "Then, Miao Zhang, what are this staff, this sound and your mind?  Are they the same or different?  If you say "same," I will hit you thirty times.  If you say "different," I will also hit you thirty times. Why?"
Miao Zhang lifted his cane slowly and pointed it at Seung Sahn's face, and then he said "Don't know! Same or different, nobody can hit the sound of our minds."

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    Zen Master Shuzan held out his short staff in front of his Daoist friend, Shifu Miao Zhang, and said "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality and are clinging. If you do not call it a short staff, then you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"
Miao Zhang smiled, dropped and pointed to his cane, and said "Yesterday it was a wooden walking stick that helped without speaking.  Tomorrow it may become firewood, crackling in the flames."


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: laughingdog]
    #23552276 - 08/18/16 05:18 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Maybe there is no separation between a tree and your hand, only perception separates them.


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I think the word is vagina


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: nuentoter]
    #23552299 - 08/18/16 05:37 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

can you pick apples off your hand?


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: nuentoter]
    #23553331 - 08/18/16 01:28 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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nuentoter said:
Maybe there is no separation between a tree and your hand, only perception separates them.




did you miss this, from the post above?:

Zen Master Shuzan held out his short staff in front of his Daoist friend, Shifu Miao Zhang, and said "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality and are clinging. If you do not call it a short staff, then you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"

this issue was clarified hundreds of years ago

the response is even included above


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: laughingdog]
    #23553965 - 08/18/16 04:44 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

I read it

The response is useless btw, koans are designed to be paradoxical and made to bring questions not answers.

They are generally used to show the inadequacy of the logical path of thinking

Simply to do the same using my words, create question.

I do not believe the intention of a koan is to clarify anything, but rather purposely muddy it up


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: nuentoter]
    #23561996 - 08/21/16 01:55 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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nuentoter said:
I read it

The response is useless btw, koans are designed to be paradoxical and made to bring questions not answers.

They are generally used to show the inadequacy of the logical path of thinking

Simply to do the same using my words, create question.

I do not believe the intention of a koan is to clarify anything, but rather purposely muddy it up




apparently you think they all function the same way, and are at the same level, oh well ...


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: laughingdog]
    #23568225 - 08/23/16 06:28 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

madr of carbon..


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: theGODSmademedoit]
    #23568631 - 08/23/16 09:52 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

a tree, like every thing, is made of sun.

it yearns, as we all do, to reconnect with the source energy.


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: nothing exists]
    #23568823 - 08/23/16 11:00 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

Start small first. See if you can merge with a steel smelter. :onfire:


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: nothing exists] * 1
    #23568915 - 08/23/16 11:40 AM (7 years, 5 months ago)

"People look at a tree and think it comes out of the ground, that plants grow out of the ground, " he says, but "if you ask, where does the substance [of the tree] come from? You find out ... trees come out of the air!" Richard Feynman


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: zzripz]
    #23569517 - 08/23/16 03:39 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

air + water. elixir of life.


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #23569789 - 08/23/16 05:19 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

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OrgoneConclusion said:
What is a plant's favorite beer?




Root Beer of course.


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: psillyboy]
    #23570230 - 08/23/16 07:12 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

5 letters

a t r e e


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Re: what is a tree made of? [Re: laughingdog]
    #23570481 - 08/23/16 08:19 PM (7 years, 5 months ago)

For those with poor public speaking skills in an open hall: a tree um


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