That was **_good!!_** Burroughs really was a genius... I res...

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That was good!! Burroughs really was a genius... I researched him a bit a while back and my impression was kinda the opposite of what he's saying here - I thought of him as a mind too big for its physical constraints, and constantly taking out his discomfort on his audience. But that explanation of de was perfect. "De" is Chinese for 'virtue.' Also spelled "te" in older transliterations.

I first "got it" by listening to Gurdjieff. Of course, everyone's heard of mindfulness and simplicity, but those are just words until you do it. Gurdjieff tells people to reverse everything. Like, if you normally hold the toothbrush in your right hand, choose to use the left hand until that becomes automatic, and then find some new way to switch it up.

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