Re: does conlanging change your sense of reality?

Jim Henry skrev:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>
>> 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'.
>
> Let me see if I understand you... For me, most thought that isn't
> verbal is visual.   But perhaps this visual thought is to sight
> as verbal thought is to hearing, and there's a purer, more
> ideal form of thought that's prior to both visual and verbal
> thought -- or a pure underlying form of thought of which visual
> and verbal thought are surface epiphenomena?
>
Spot on!

/BP aka Ngag.dbang sByin.pa

(A virtual lolipop to the first who can guess
the pronunciation of my Tibetan name --
which rather emphasizes the Word aspect of
teaching; the teacher who gave it to me had
me all figured out! :-)