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Presence as the Transparent Concreteness of Forms

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It is extremely difficult to express what is 'Isness'. Isness is awareness as forms. It is a pure sense of presence yet encompassing the “transparent concreteness” of forms. There is a crystal clear sensation of awareness manifesting as the manifold of phenomenal existence. If we are vague in the experiencing of this “transparent concreteness” of Isness, it is always due to that ‘sense of self’ creating the sense of division.

~ Thusness, 2007

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Anonymous said…
'Extremely difficult' means completely and entirely not possible given the dualistic construct of our language, and multiple associated individual meaning making. So why try? Perhaps we need a new language based on unity concepts... Drop the verbs and nouns to start with?

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