Drifting Awake » spirituality http://www.richardfarrell.com Ripples from a little-boat life Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:43:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 the names of the Unnameable http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/07/the-names-of-the-unnameable/ http://www.richardfarrell.com/2009/07/the-names-of-the-unnameable/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:00:37 +0000 Richard Farrell http://www.richardfarrell.com/?p=3346

whether to speak of the One, emptiness, God, or even in the philosophy of Zen, the nothingness beyond God, is not to describe reality, but to make a poetic choice

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spiritual frustration increases with the strength of the desire to know the unknowable

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spirituality has to do with our mood around the ultimate questions that arise because we humans live in language and, thus, in time

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the notion of enlightenment obstructs transparent living (unless it doesn’t)

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