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178 - The Four Investigations

Secular Buddhism

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What Is a Tree?

The word tree is the name we have for a thing. Tree is the word and tree is also the thing. So keep in mind there's usefulness to the labels and the names. The point of this exercise is not to make names out as if they are bad things or labels as if they were bad things. But at the same time, how would you describe a tree if you didn't use any words or any concepts, no ideas? I think you would find that things are always beyond words.

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