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Perfect Pose, Empty Mind

English translation: below

21:45 Mar 27, 2004
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: Perfect Pose, Empty Mind
This is the tile of a chapter in a book on Yoga. The authors say then:

"We have coined the phrase to help point us the direction we have described: the integration of body and mind". The question is what was the initial phrase they have coined?
Kirill Semenov
Ukraine
Local time: 13:10
Selected answer:below
Explanation:
"to coin" means "to create, invent (the phrase)" (from Webster's)
The author(s) have created a phrase, neologism "Perfect pose, empty mind" - tha's it. The point is there was no any "initial phrase" as the mentioned phrase WAS COINED.
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Vladimir Dubisskiy
United States
Local time: 06:10
Grading comment
Aha, thank you. I've thought (stupidly) that "to coin" means to change smartly something that already exists. ^(
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perfect pose, empty mind
Perfect Pose, Empty Mind


Explanation:
Apparently the phrase they have coined is "Perfect Pose, Empty Mind." (Unless I don't understand your question.)

NGK
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Local time: 06:10
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perfect pose, empty mind
below


Explanation:
"to coin" means "to create, invent (the phrase)" (from Webster's)
The author(s) have created a phrase, neologism "Perfect pose, empty mind" - tha's it. The point is there was no any "initial phrase" as the mentioned phrase WAS COINED.

Vladimir Dubisskiy
United States
Local time: 06:10
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Aha, thank you. I've thought (stupidly) that "to coin" means to change smartly something that already exists. ^(

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