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If you immediatley know the candle light is fire....
It's about keeping your mind open to infinite possibilities. And discovering things on your own not by what one tells you. Just like the quote there is many different answers that will eventually lead you to the great path. LOL
one post, and nails it
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A lie is just a truth that hasn't gone through conversion therapy yet
Look at the context. This phrase was used to answer Daniel's statement.
Monk: "You think the child is safe with you?"
Daniel: "Yes, absolutely."
Look at the 'If'. If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
The first part refers to belief. It's common sense that light from a candle is because of a flame. It refers to something you believe so strongly you take as fact.
Then the meal was cooked a long time ago. If the meal has already been cooked, what can you do? Nothing. It's in the past; you can't change it. The reference to cooking is about setting something in stone, or making it very hard to change.
If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.
If you're so sure about what you believe, then there is little that can be done to change your mind.
Besides, thought a candle burns in my house, there's nobody home.
when it was originally said the previous statement was something along saying that Jackson was missing something because it was obvious to me it seemed to mean "if you look for something specific you'll miss what you don't expect" thats why jackson doesn't realize oma didn't want him to take the boy
The problem is the whole meal thing. Has nothing to do with candle fire, the imagery doesn't match. So, yeah....they probably had a good laugh.
Maybe that's the point. If you understand the concept of fire outside of the realms of its practical use for you, then you are already enlightened to a degree.
If you recognize and understand a concept (i.e. fire) outside of the context from which you originally learned it, you've taken an important step in enlightenment, and the process of understanding had to have started a long time ago.
I always thought it meant the fire had burned out so much it was as dim as a candle's light they used fire to cook with and for heat, so if the fire is dying down it must have served it's purpose.
Or it means that for someone to identify what candles are, then you were capable of having cooked the meal a long time ago....but I like my "It's gibberish" asnwer from a long time ago better.
if you jump to a conclusion, and you are unwilling to open your mind to other possibilities then you will never be able to learn the true nature of things or new things in general.
basically.. since you have already made up your mind, you are done learning.
or,
you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
if that is not simple enough then lest put it another way...
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