Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

On 2009-03-31 Gary Shannon wrote:
> The inner dialog, in other words, is NOT the thought, but
>  is how we REPEAT the thought to ourselves AFTER we have
>  formed the thought non-verbally.
>
> For someone who has not performed this experiment of
> halting the inner dialog this claim seems to violate
> common sense. It is assumed that thoughts exist only as
> mental words or images. For anyone who has tried this
> experiment for a few weeks or so, however, it becomes
> blatantly obvious that thoughts are NOT words or images,
>  but that we are in the habit of TRANSLATING our thoughts
>  INTO words or images AFTER the fact.
>
I suspect most teachers of Buddhist meditation would agree.
In Tibetan Buddhism an incarnate lama is said to have three
separate incarnations, viz. mind, word and body incarnations,
and it is the mind incarnation which is most highly valued
over the word and body ones.  As an adherent of the
Yogācāra school of Buddhism I hold that mind or thought is
prior to *everything* in our so-called perception of
reality, or so to speak all the sentses have their analog
of 'inner dialog'.

/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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  "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
  à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le soleil
  ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
  c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)

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