Enlightenment and then preaching against the machine

• Open enlightenment and then teaching Buddhism through the use of dialogue, not the other way around
• First, understand non-verbal.
  • After that, it becomes “a word that I understand but others don’t.”
  • Then you try to explain it to individual others, and it becomes “a language they can understand.
• It will be a long time before it becomes a language that can be communicated to an unspecified number of people.
  • It may not be expressible in the current vocabulary to begin with.
  • There are problems on the part of people to begin with, and they may not understand whatever way you tell them. - Sanyuttha Nikaya 6.1.1

relevance - Words that are being spoken

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