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concept:innocence

Innocence

The unforced, joyful, uncontaminated state of making that allows genuine beings to arise.

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Methods (1)

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  • A pedagogical method where students blow out eggs and paint them purely for beauty, to recover innocent making and produce beings.

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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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  • Alexander's quote from Notes (with footnote #19); Steenson invokes it twice: once to honor, once to critique.
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