Loosening the Chains of the Conceptual and the Intelligible

StillJustJames
Sep 5, 2018 · 12 min read

Many people implicitly believe that coming to a complete understanding of reality involves some kind of leap, whether it be an intuition or an advanced insight, or some sort of blissful experience in meditation, or even a scientific or philosophical theory based upon the “givens” — those facts of experience that fill our days and our memories, and form the basis of our nervous tensions, phobias, and damaged feelings, as well as our moments of joy and leaps of intuitive insight and conceptual theorizing. I have noticed that the leaps never get one to the…

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StillJustJames

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Writer, philosopher, contemplative theorist, conscientious Earth Protector and lifelong meditator using Inner Spontaneous Sound. ❤️ ཨེ་མ་ཧོ། ཕན་ནོ་ཕན་ནོ་སྭཱཧཱ།

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A Book About Using Inner Spontaneous Sound To Manifest Great Responsiveness (Mahākarunā)

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