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Monty python style sketch about the odyssey PLEASE

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THEN! When you have found the shrubbery, you must bring it here beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher to get the two-level effect with a path going down the middle.

Leader of The Knights Who Say NI! - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

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Yennefer: Make sure to open the door for him. Bring him a flower, a gift. And compliment his outfit!

Geralt, out with Jaskier: [Punching open a locked door; thrusts a potted shrub at the bard] I'm noticing you wore a shirt. Good.

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He sees a vast ocean of water at the moment he begins to take water into his own body.

This method of contriving conditions for insight seems to be found even in the Zen arts, The following instance of clever modern Japanese landscaping perhaps serves to illustrate the method:

This involved a path that lead high up a mountain from which there had at one time been a continuous magnificent view of the ocean. However the landscaper planted a hedge along the path that obscured this view, except at one point in which he provided a low break in the hedge. He placed a modern drinking fountain at that spot. At the moment the weary wanderer leaned over to sip the water the gap in the hedge is suddenly revealed and he sees a vast ocean of water at the moment he begins to take water into his own body.

This is apparently an attempt to contrive an experience intended to evoke insight, much as an adeptly executed shout, thwap or tweak of the nose.

Buddha’s Meditation and its Variants 14 [ Bhikkhu Cintita Dinsmore ]

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