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**Uttephabeta** · 05-20-2011, 07:56 AM

My experience has been that when I'm engaged in nit picking terminology, I tend to miss the very message the words are trying to impart.

My experience has been that when folks are not clear on the terms they are using, they tend to talk past each other and no communication happens. It is quite possible to be using the same terms and be talking about completely different concepts. And neither party know it at all. One example would be the idea of "emptiness", which for some is a metaphysical foo-foo term, and for the Buddha simply was an indictment of illusions of status and ownership..

05-20-2011, 07:56 AM	#25
Uttephabeta Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 451 Senior Member	My experience has been that when I'm engaged in nit picking terminology, I tend to miss the very message the words are trying to impart. My experience has been that when folks are not clear on the terms they are using, they tend to talk past each other and no communication happens. It is quite possible to be using the same terms and be talking about completely different concepts. And neither party know it at all. One example would be the idea of "emptiness", which for some is a metaphysical foo-foo term, and for the Buddha simply was an indictment of illusions of status and ownership..
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