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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

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Built in New Albany, Indiana, in 1832, the steamboat Heroine plied the Ohio and Mississippi from its launch in that year until a navigation disaster left it beneath the waters of the Red River in 1838. Early western river navigation was always dangerous, but it was a necessity in order to ship supplies to U.S. Army frontier posts and civilian settlements. The cargo carried by Heroine in 1838 was apparently loaded in Cincinnati, Ohio, and transported down the Mississippi and up the Red River to deliver at various towns along the way and at military installations, including Fort Towson in the Indian Territory. Only two months earlier, in March 1838, the river had been made passable by shallow-draft steam vessels above Nachitoches, Louisiana, when Henry Shreve cleared away the Great Raft, a 165-mile-long logjam that had persisted for centuries. Heroine was one of the first steamboats to navigate the upper Red River.

On May 7, 1838, leaving Jonesborough, on the Texas side of the river, and bound for a landing at the mouth of the Kiamichi River, on the Indian Territory side, Heroine hit a snag and sank a few miles from its destination. The hull quickly filled with sand, sealing off its contents.

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"Truths," Descartes observed, "are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by a nation." The generations that produced Galileo,
Vesalius, Harvey, and Malpighi needed new forums of science bringing together the truths discovered by individuals for mutual enrichment and
for other discoverers everywhere. The communities of science became parliaments of scientists conducted in the vernacular languages. What was
offered did not have to be part of a grand scheme of meaning. It was enough that it be "interesting", unusual, or novel. The edges were fuzzied
between science and technology, between professional and the amateur.

pro⋅fess  –verb (used with object)

1. to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.

2. to declare openly; announce or affirm; avow or acknowledge: to profess one's satisfaction.

3. to affirm faith in or allegiance to (a religion, God, etc.).

4. to declare oneself skilled or expert in; claim to have knowledge of; make (a thing) one's profession or business.

5. to teach as a professor: She professes comparative literature.

6. to receive or admit into a religious order.

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Mushin is achieved when a person feels no anger, fear or ego during combat. There is an absence of discursive thought and judgment, so the
person is totally free to act and react towards an opponent without hesitation. At this point, a person relies not on what they think should be
the next move, but what is felt intuitively. It is not a state of relaxed, near-sleepfulness, however. The mind could be said to be working at a very
high speed, but with no intentions, plans or direction.


In many instances, citta seems to convey consciousness, mind, intellect or psychic mass that orders and illuminates sensations coming from
without - can serve as a mirror for objects, without the senses interposing between it and its object. Thus the non-initiate is incapable of gaining
freedom, because his mind, instead of being stable (still, non-fluctuating) is constantly violated by the activity of the senses, by the subconscious,
and by the 'thrust for life'.

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Discursive psychological studies highlight the way people construct versions of 'mental', 'social' and 'material' events and processes as parts of particular practices.

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