Therefrom Boshy's saving propensities, being but the idiosyncrasies of the rich, were mercifully endured and spoken of by Mr. Civil. Even his amazing miserliness was passed over acceptedly, for of such are the kingdom of shepherd millionaires.
You must have seen a strange windowed house near Hyde-Park, which is so built that no one can look out of any of the apartments […]
Splunk! Mid-muse, Darcy was startled by a weird noise — something between a splat and a thunk. Pausing in her apple-picking, she looked around. Splunk! There it was again!
This type of paradox is fundamental to the Buddhist episteme and informs all aspects of Buddhist discourse. There is the tension between a buddha’s transcendence and immanence—his location within both nirvāṇa and saṃsāra, John D. Dunne writes, and Śākyamuni Buddha's involvement in the world as a teacher and his detachment from the world as an awakened being. Buddha has omnilinguality” even as Buddha in se does not speak,Paul J. Griffiths writes, and is not implicated with language. Eckel considers such paradoxes, and specifically the implications of Buddha’s absence, as points of incongruity that challenge the stability of conceptuality itself yet lead to insight, knowledge, and the ability to perceive and respond to the absence.