The Parable of the Floating Grass and the Trees

Reprinted from slides at CUMOT2019.

• A more detailed description of what we used to call [Rootless Knowledge

• greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)

• fluffy and drifting on the surface of the water.

• trees and shrubs

• The earth root (of a tooth, hair, etc.) is brought down to the earth.

Related Keywords - one’s feet on the ground - frivolous - frivolous - have roots in

• stem - Grow over time
  • Borrowed subjectivity
  • personal affair 　 somebody else’s problem
    • proactive
• experience - My experience - Specific Experience - example - metaphor
• concept - abstract concept

relevance - Seeds that fell on stony ground sprouted quickly but died because they had no roots

• Parable of greater duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza) and [trees and shrubs

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