"One who has given up conceit has no ties, the ties of conceit are all cleared away." 1/3 Arahanta Sutta
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Conceit, thinking, ego, concept are thus all intricately interwoven. Conceptualizing (vikalpa) is the vivisection of raw experience into subject and object, constructs that are entirely mind-made (mano-maya).
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1/2 And on those grounds, I'm fond of understanding our words and concepts as "poems," not to be taken literally, but to be engaged with as prompts to go and look back towards that which they gesture. Or, as the Christian contemplative theologian Gregory of Nyssa portrayed it:
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