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lol, i took you seriously for a bit and got to thinking about it a bit. apart from actually learning some of the characters, i think input is also a challenge. though possibly with the recent developments in handwriting recognition, this might be manageable. though i wonder how popular "writing" source will end up being. as an alternative, the korean hangul character set might be interesting. the amount of learning involved is probably way less for input as well as the actual characters. 🙂

The vacuum is wonderful?

still working on understanding that one, but one of my current interpretations has to do with "true emptiness is mysterious"

Ah, emptiness like in the Buddhist concept?

perhaps so -- not sure if this 4-character compound predates the introduction of buddhism into china.

maybe Taoism

yes, also another possibility

all of these isms have morphed over time too 🙂

yes, zen buddhism is like a mix of the two right?

that sounds like part of what happened 🙂 iiuc, there were multiple influences over time and there are now various manifestations in multiple countries -- what one meets in japan is somewhat different from what one meets in korea. but even in the same country there are differences. so there being one label is misleading -- but i guess this is true in general..

yes, labels are misleading, that's one of the lessons from zen 🙂

i never quite learn that lesson deeply enough -- keep getting reminders about it!

thanks for reminding me as well 🙂

Thanks for your contribution @plexus.