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Find what makes your heart sing…and do it! ________________________________ From: Joe <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 13, 2012 7:47:35 PM Subject: [Zen] Re: I need some practice advice Bill!, Well, now, it's not _a priori_, it is an empirical observation. A Flower is not made of a Flower. It is made of water, sunlight, earth minerals, carbon dioxide, etc., all NON-flower elements. Pancakes are made of flour: a non-PANCAKE element! Now, for fun I'll change the subject, a little: What are you due to? --Joe > "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > Joe, > > Thanks for your explanation of 'conditioned-arising'. In it you start with > the >a base assumption that "Because things always consist of material, or energy, >that came together to form or cause them, they are not themselves, but consist >instead of these other disparate things,...". Why do you accept this a priori?
