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On covering, exposing, and recovering, I believe that when one gets down to the root of something, it opens up a very vulnerable part of the self. One cannot walk around in that state of being, so one puts up a cover to protect it. The Zen folks would say you eat, sleep, whatever, and you achieve stori and then you eat, sleep, and whatever. I am very into nonduality. I think it's very limiting to set up dual opposites (syzygies?) and then to try to fit everything into them. Real life is messy; it doesn't work that way. I guess that's as much as I was able to understand this convo. I am wary of relegating everything to the intellectual. It has its place, but we must never forget the heart and the spirit, both of which go far beyond the mere intellectual. We are not Vulcans. . . .

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