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**ulnanVti** · 08-25-2011, 09:58 PM

Ultimately, of course, one person's direct experience is not available to others. No matter what we do, we have to describe experience in language, which is an intellectual activity. In my mind, intellectual activity is the raft that takes you across the river, and clinging to it after the crossing is pointless. Nevertheless, you need it to cross the river

Hi FBM,

What about non-verbal awareness /clarity/emptiness and so on experienced in meditation when there is no thought - and which cannot easily be described with language ? Perhaps sometimes its better not to even try to describe it.....or do you disagree?

08-25-2011, 09:58 PM	#16
ulnanVti Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 564 Senior Member	Ultimately, of course, one person's direct experience is not available to others. No matter what we do, we have to describe experience in language, which is an intellectual activity. In my mind, intellectual activity is the raft that takes you across the river, and clinging to it after the crossing is pointless. Nevertheless, you need it to cross the river Hi FBM, What about non-verbal awareness /clarity/emptiness and so on experienced in meditation when there is no thought - and which cannot easily be described with language ? Perhaps sometimes its better not to even try to describe it.....or do you disagree?
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