a thing i'm learning, or making conscious in the process of writing my book, is how "make lists" is a critical load-bearing pillar of the way I make sense of things. I hardly talk ~about~ it, but you can see me doing it all the time; a lot of my threads are just lists of things
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it was good enough for the buddha after all
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@visakanv or the Buddha? 
"Buddha taught through conversation, lectures, and parables. Since it never occurred to him, any more than to Socrates or Christ, to put his doctrine into writing, he summarized it in sutras (“threads”) designed to prompt the memory."
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"Buddha taught through conversation, lectures, and parables. Since it never occurred to him, any more than to Socrates or Christ, to put his doctrine into writing, he summarized it in sutras (“threads”) designed to prompt the memory."
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