Concepts

[The Fool]

To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.
Nisargadatta Maharaj

[The Fool]

Q : If I follow this Way, and refrain from intellectual processes and conceptual thinking, shall I be certain of attaining the goal?A : Such non-intellection is following the Way! Why this talk of attaining and not attaining? The matter is thus--by thinking of something you create an entity and by thinking of nothing you create another. Let such erroneous thinking perish utterly, and then nothing will remain for you to go seeking!
Huang Po - The Wan Ling Record

[Mornings Son]

From the Great scripture of Perfect Insight:

When bodhisattva-mahasattvas practice perfect insight, they do not see bodhisattva-mahasattvas, or perfect insight, or even these two names, either in the realm of the created or in the realm of the uncreated. Why? When bodhisattva-mahasattvas practice perfect insight they do not conceive notions of anything and have no alienated thinking. When bodhisattva-mahasattvas practice perfect insight they remain free from concepts.

[Tiff]

Yes, there is a danger in too many words.
Because if we will forget what we have spoken, what good is it to list, categorize, analyze every minute detail (of spiritualism)  if 10 minutes later it is forgotten?
The best words are ones chosen to impact the conversation in the way it is energetically needed. Such as, some understanding is blocked, so you clear the way. Because we are travelers, and we forget. So if we forget, we only need to make sure we can continue traveling. To hold onto all conceptualizations is impossible, and not even enjoyable. Forgetting on the other hand IS enjoyable.
I made this post...and now I can forget it. It accomplished nothing. And because it accomplished nothing I can pass through.
Accomplishment of things is only for scholars. Sadly for them, they forget too.

[The Fool]

The wise know nothing at all - well, maybe one song.
Ikkyu

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