Friend: I have been going through Rennyo's letters in the 80 Letter edition of the Gobunsho and I am taken with the simplicity of the teaching he indicates.
The simplicity of that teaching has stayed with us both for many years, influencing moments when we are trying to meet a deadline or some other potentially stressful situation.
This year I've finally given up the ruse of simplicity, and teach Worldcat and Google Books along with the catalog.
Yet right NOW, you are finally HEARING DEEPLY what Shinran has been saying all along - through the voice of his true student Rennyo as you read his letters - and are STRUCK in a fresh way by the simplicity of what he teaches.
My own teacher, H.W.L. Poonja came from the Advaita Vedanta tradition, and it was the timeless simplicity of this ancient teaching that catalyzed my awakening.
Among the factors that allowed it to become standard are its aptness to be adopted by philosophers of the most diverse persuasions, its simplicity and suitability for teaching.
Note: Due to our emphasis on simplicity and accessibility for the purposes of teaching, these AFMs have no feedback electronics, and (for that reason and others) are not capable of more advanced imaging modes available on commercial instruments, such as constant-force mode, "tapping mode", lateral-force mode, etc.
Gibbs, however, noted that the product of quaternions always had to be separated into two parts: a one-dimensional (scalar) quantity and a three-dimensional vector, so that the use of quaternions introduced mathematical complications and redundancies that could be avoided in the interest of simplicity and to facilitate teaching.
Lutyens' style changed when he met the landscape gardener Gertrude Jekyll, who taught him the "simplicity of intention and directness of purpose" she had learned from John Ruskin.
Enter the simplicity of a children's book that can teach storytellers to accomplish this in the most simple of ways.
Television taught Foote the dynamics of dramatic characterization; the simplicity of his story lines now worked for him, not against him.
