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Kickle
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Re: Can anything tangible be "formless"? [Re: Poid]
#13125629 - 08/30/10 07:00 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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c0sm0nautt said: For me, formlessness is an experience that can not be described in conventional terms. I wish I could explain it better. It is when you mind shuts up and only a mirror is there - a reflection. When it happens to me I almost come out of it like when you wake up from a dream.
Why call an experience "formless"? I just don't get it...
Interesting... you may be right that experience isn't a good word to use. IME the formless is not dependent upon the senses to see.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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Re: Can anything tangible be "formless"? [Re: Kickle]
#13125647 - 08/30/10 07:04 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Then what is it dependent on?
-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Kickle
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Re: Can anything tangible be "formless"? [Re: Poid]
#13125689 - 08/30/10 07:10 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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Nothing so far as I can tell. It just is.
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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c0sm0nautt

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Re: Can anything tangible be "formless"? [Re: Kickle]
#13126075 - 08/30/10 08:16 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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c0sm0nautt said: For me, formlessness is an experience that can not be described in conventional terms. I wish I could explain it better. It is when you mind shuts up and only a mirror is there - a reflection. When it happens to me I almost come out of it like when you wake up from a dream.
Why call an experience "formless"? I just don't get it...
Interesting... you may be right that experience isn't a good word to use. IME the formless is not dependent upon the senses to see.
What do you call something that cannot be described with language?
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Re: Can anything tangible be "formless"? [Re: c0sm0nautt]
#13126179 - 08/30/10 08:30 PM (13 years, 5 months ago) |
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wonderful
-------------------- Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain
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