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Battle Of The Blahs

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Awareness, pure consciousness, egoless, no self, spirit, god, the peace that passeth all understanding, universal energy, eternal essence, eternal bliss, universal intelligence, mind, formless energy….. (add your own favorite word or phrase here).

All these words and phrases point to the same thing (or no-thing?) and attempt to describe what’s indescribable via words or thoughts. People argue endlessly over which is “right” or “correct” and miss the whole purpose of using them to communicate. It reminds me of the famous spiritual (Buddhist?) saying that goes something like this: “I’m pointing at the moon but you’re looking at my finger.”

As E. Tolle has said: “The analysis of pointers is pointless.”

What’s your favorite word or phrase that describes the indescribable?

  1. May 8, 2009 at 1:24 am

    I AM That I AM.

    • bulldozer00's avatar
      bulldozer00
      May 8, 2009 at 8:29 am

      Good one.

  2. lana's avatar
    lana
    May 8, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    “The finger pointing at the moon, is not the moon”

    ‘it’s a map, not the territory’ is another saying i like.

    i’m still trying to wrap my pea brain around how everything is a projection. even when someone standing in front of me perhaps – the image is not the thing. (map not the territory ?)

    my favorite word to describe the indescribably? i have a tendency to call ‘it’ – that Something that knows better than ‘me’.. sometimes I’ll call it Spirit – sometimes Awareness. But yea – that Something

    my 2 cents today 🙂 have a great weekend!

    • bulldozer00's avatar
      bulldozer00
      May 8, 2009 at 3:26 pm

      Thanks for the “moon” quote correction.

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