Contemplation

Experience this

not looking hearing thinking

of a name for it 

Untitled for contemplation /  photo and haiku 

notes: the old age notion of distinguishing the state of meditation from everything else is predictablely challenging. It is was Aristotleb who purportedly said  "the goal of action is conpemplaion" .

My haiku here, is an insight to ideas of framing what meditation/contemplation actually is and in a similar way add context to Aristotle's remarks. The irony is that the potential well of explaination of contemplation is a philosophical cul-de-sac. It's ultimately a very privately person

Aland internal practice,  without rules or guidelines.

The usual difficulty to communicate this, is that the intellectualising of such states is always in the way of it. However, ultimately a way to express it, is to frame the experience as the ste bypping 'away or off' from an intellectual notion of merely thinking about meditation/contemplationand into a non- verbal even non sensory state which by its 'achievement is the goal' and only perpetuated or prolonged by not returning to any self conscious examination of those moments. Aristotle elevates the contemplative state by couching it as the 'ultimate goal of action'

His emphasis on 'goal' is to stress it's superior achievement by distinguishing 'all action' as a singular activity,  more or less equally predicated to serve as a stepping stone to higher consciousness activity goals.

It's a tricky and slippery explanation and notion but well worth the work... (-:

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