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Originally Posted by Gem
I generally try to steer away from the teachings themselves because I think teachings become an authoritative knowledge system which people check against, and it's better to check against yourself, because that means one is seeing for themselves rather than affirming 'what they know'.
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I'll bow out of this conversation then.
My tendency to include the teachings themselves is take them as a base to establish a common vocabulary. Not hit anyone over the head with them or confuse them..
I realize that what I receive from the texts, The conformation of what I know in them. Differs from what others think they perceive and know..
Sorry to have butted in like this.
With Love