What is IS. Concepts ABOUT isness are concepts.
I generally use the word "imagination" to refer to mental projections (ideas, images, symbols). I don't use it to refer to direct sensory perception. What a tree IS (for purposes of conversation and communication) is different than the idea "tree." You can't stub your toe on an idea, and ideas don't make sounds like *clink clink clink*.
If discursive thought is absent, everything remains clear and undisturbed. Ordinary life proceeds fluidly in a state of what we might call "empty alert intelligent clarity." In this empty state thoughts may arise, but they are vaporous and have no capacity to confuse or obscure the obvious.
I generally use the word "imagination" to refer to mental projections (ideas, images, symbols). I don't use it to refer to direct sensory perception. What a tree IS (for purposes of conversation and communication) is different than the idea "tree." You can't stub your toe on an idea, and ideas don't make sounds like *clink clink clink*.
If discursive thought is absent, everything remains clear and undisturbed. Ordinary life proceeds fluidly in a state of what we might call "empty alert intelligent clarity." In this empty state thoughts may arise, but they are vaporous and have no capacity to confuse or obscure the obvious.
