Oh teacher! My dearest, dearest teacher! Where must we begin?
1. "Why did I die?" That is the structure of every lesson.
2. In being taught, there is no middle ground between learning and ignoring. Learning is recognizing the cause of your current death. Ignoring is pretending you are still alive.
3. Death is in the cradle: you die no later than being born. In realizing this you will see the absolute necessity of learning everything that your death is teaching.
4. Pain is a sign of your current death. Not the only one, but the most convenient.
5. To live a life of being taught, that is, to live your current death in all its devastation, you must let the future take its full hold upon you.
6. Therefore, learning is tied to forgetting. The more you forget, the more you can learn.
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'Therefore, learning is tied to forgetting. The more you forget, the more you can learn. ' Excellent lesson, is there Zeno lurking in the shades of the forgotten or lapsed deceased? 'To whom shall we owe the forgetting of a continent' Guillame Apollinaire the french poet once wrote.
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