In Spirituality, there is a space, which could be perceived when our minds are totally tranquil, at ease. It is a space of awareness, just like seen the ocean without any waves… in that experience we could perceive the "formless."
The "formless" is a subtle perception of serenity, calmness. That is a closer as I could get with words.
As we feed ourselves with this, there is the experience of nurturing the being. This is spiritual nutrition.
That "formless" experience will have an impact in a person. The "formless" will impact our "form," that is the way we behave in the world.
For example, when we observe the behavior of someone smiling and moving with grace and elegance in life. That is surely a "form," that we observe. That harmonious behavior doesn't come by learning "etiquette," in some school. That is not what we are referring to, here.
The impact of the formless in our form means a complete change in attitude.
A person who has learned, "cultivated" a behavior perceived as "elegant" will not show that behavior at all times. It is usually part of a created personality which will show the real self only when there is a problem, when dealing with difficult people, etc. At the end, the "monkey is a monkey even though dressed with a nice suit."
Harmony in movement, grace, elegant behavior, serenity; what we know of as "having class," is not something learned. It comes "naturally" out of that "formless" experience repeated over a long period of time.
Nature is truly a source of this change. When we look at the sky at night and just feel mesmerized, fascinated by the beauty of it, when we appreciate the wind coming and cooling us off and when we hear the music orchestrated by nocturnal animals around us, in all of that experience; the little "I" and his "big" problems disappear. The giant waves of the mind calm down through the admiration of beauty.
This is to nurture the soul.
That nurturing space produces serenity, peace, well being. That is the formless. That is what changes human beings in a subtle, inconspicuous way.
Harmony comes from the source of harmony, when there is recognition of it. Nothing better than Nature for that.
As the "formless" make up a "form" through the behavior of a human being, we could see how our current "form" our current way of dealing with people and our own selves, is in close relationship with our experience of the "formless."
A person who does not have the experience of the "formless," will merely "copy" what that person observes. As it is the environment, so it will be the behavior.
Spirituality, on the other hand; will show us that the subtle, the "formless," that "serenity," is the building block of a harmonious "form," that is a gentle behavior.
Our "form" is how we relate with the world.
Therefore, in spirituality the formless will give us our form and our form will be the means to relate with others… the world.
"The clairvoyant may see forms which are elsewhere, but he cannot see the formless. The telepathic may communicate directly with the mind of another, but he cannot communicate with one who has achieved no-mind. The telekinetic may move an object without touching it, but he cannot move the intangible. Such abilities have meaning only in the realm of duality. Therefore, they are meaningless. Within the Great Oneness, though there is no such thing as clairvoyance, telepathy, or telekinesis, all things are seen, all things understood, all things forever in their proper places."
Hua Hu – CH 20 – By Lao Tzu.
DR.BK.SATYANARAYAN
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