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The quiet art of attention

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865 points billwear | 2 comments | 13 Oct 24 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jankovicsandras ◴[14 Oct 24 07:12 UTC] No.41835013[source]▶
Isn't parts of this quoting or paraphrasing from the book "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tibetan_Book_of_Living_a...
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billwear ◴[14 Oct 24 09:17 UTC] No.41835736[source]▶
haven't read that book, but it's not unusual since language is finite.
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1. skrebbel ◴[14 Oct 24 10:16 UTC] No.41836054[source]▶
Language is finite in the same way as our supply of UUIDs is, ie, not finite at all in any practical sense.
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2. asdftemp ◴[14 Oct 24 19:14 UTC] No.41840855[source]▶
attempt to interpret the parent comment more charitably: when different people who've shared a common experience try to put it into words, there is some consistency between what they write. the harder the experience is to verbalize, the harder it is to come up with meaningfully different precise descriptions of it, and the more aware you are of the limitations of language