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Notes and Thoughts
It all depends on what's the purpose of your readings of the text. If we read a text as part of an academic or theological exercise, then it is important to determine with as much clarity as possible the extents and demarcations of a given content. However, if you read the text as a guide for practice, it is perfectly legitimate to find refuge and inspiration in a single seemingly disconnected thought or even in a small sign such as a Buddha sitting in front of a crowd and holding a flower in his hands, or the student who craved watching his Tzadik tie his shoe lases. It is OK for you to see that small gesture, understand, smile and embark on a whole new or bolder path. I think that one of the teachings is for the followers to do that which the Buddha did, more so than that which the the Buddha said. Conversely, whatever the Buddha did not say much about, does not follow we should not do much about. Friendship is the whole entire spiritual path, and so are many other different paths.
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