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September 2009 
Enlightenment and the void
Posted on May 20th, 2009
by 
Alan
Alan
What if enlightenment exists not in form, but formless? Not in stuff, but void?
If so... well, lets jus assume so for a second. If so, you couldn't ever get to enlightenment by thinking alot about it, or reading books... you couldn't even get to it by looking. Trying to find enlightenment would be like trying to catch smoke...
What if enlightenment was the recognition of the dance of form and formlessness, stuff and void? If you never learned to stop thinking and sit in formlessness, well...
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The greatest of all things are Elusive. Almost impossible to measure or describe or hold.
Like snowflakes :-D
Even that was just a nanosecond of form in the infinite expanse of formlessness.
Like Space :-D
The black stuff from which all else is held =)
Don't get me started :-P
Yeesss… I dunno, I kinda like it when you get started. ;-)
And the snowflake metaphor is poetical (lol), I like it. If I let the metaphor get me started, I'd start: what sense does it make to try and hold a snowflake in your hand? You cannot: it is fleeting, and turns to water.
What sense does it make to try and hold enlightenment in your brain? It does not stay: it is fleeting, it turns into ritual.
I live the way of the open hand… for Source, in her/is wisdom, always makes more snowflakes.