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GliderGuider

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6. Yes.
Thu Jan 31, 2013, 09:39 AM
Jan 2013

And, of course, no.

I love the way different language structures can illuminate consciousness in different ways. I see what you're saying about nominal vs verbal language - it's a perspective most speakers of just Indo-European languages don't acquire.

I think when I use the word "illusion" I mean something more like "ineffable" - something which cannot be conceived in words - rather than "false", which in my usage is just another illusion. If I hold a Platonic ideal for the notion of "realizing illusion" it exists beyond language altogether, because even the verbal - "holding steady" for example - tends to raise more questions than it resolves.

But of course anything that exists beyond language is by definition impossible to talk about. Which is probably why the word "stillness" carries such magic.

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Yes. GliderGuider Jan 2013 #6
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Ah! Zerzan! tama Feb 2013 #9
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