Martin Buber, Kerouac, Avalokiteshvara>...^^^

G-d doesn't roll dice, said Einstein. So, continuity is only unity because of patterns of essential language we use to attend to our respective worlds--as in describing G-d as saying, calling, separating, or creating...would be our displined minds wanting to believe somehow we are charged with the fundamental capibility of recognizing this state of suffering--having to be concommitant with this interplay of yin and yang=karma, that we have limitations from our desires and ignorance.
"An extremity. You are defined by YOUR OWN conception of "you."" Martin Buber defines the I as ultimately in relationship with Thou... By extension "Thou" is the world, he says, and IF you like-- "Creation," by very definition of what we call Higher Ground. So, My Own conception of me doesn't exist, and nor do any of the Eastern philosophies agree. There IS NO self. Yes, we are a bundle of reactions, so is an osmotic tree--and a tree is not consciously aware. We are but again thru relationship with the OUTWARD FACT, where ansers lie, Consciousness is procured, relationship is DENIED or relationship is re-affirmed. The ultimate symbol of the self is Nothing--there isn't one. ANd, we as living beings live in a symbolic universe. Symbols are our only means of transcendence. It is what we meditate upon so that the awe and vastness of a Mountain would seem captured--thru language, which is inadequate, but IS symbolic. You say how can a MT be a symbol=well it's not, but we have only to wonder and it becomes rich with life, immense BY comparison, ominous by desire or ignorance. ***Buber says the human mind seeks the world by language, the divine mind seeks Ultimate Reality thru the world. If the body is the law, then the mind is procured by the body, just as we know the community with which we are a part of =I & I, I & You, I & We, I & Nature--thru the ego, defines consciousness... Community is body, Consciousness is the Human Mind reflecting on what IS, that being what is manifest. And I can't say I AM without YOU being YOU FIRST. LANGUAGE is CHEAP and it is vain! Avalokiteshvara "laid his diamond hand" 'pon Kerouac's reality feigned brow, and he wants to do something out of the box...believing the Buddha shares the Way. Except for my body not yielding to bliss, one may think a shapeless mass were the goal. Giving us freedom from the physical prison, our bodies delivering us to the force of nature. Still, we're talking about disipline. And if G*d would be shapeless, then beyond form is essense, and He'd be what the soft machine is when senses are propounded with the nature of Thought. The soft machine... IS that which contains me, but that which is No vessel.~~~Feel blessed to endure something like a vision, Oh clearly it's schizophrenia in the haunts of my mind. But THAT extenuating happenstance is still lucid. Thought really intently that Barack, Muhammed's horse, was out the front door of my cuz's house--this back in about '93... It wasn't quite like a up and ran to the door and witnessed Mo' and Barack transpiring at the Autumnal gates that day... and then their "flight." Rather, I am pateintly waiting off of the front door foyer, in the living room... My cousin is gathering things toward a work regimen, so not coalescing as if that room the living room was the power spot it seemed to be--and would have been all the more if two more eyes saw the white light of day with its career thru streaming curtains. Anyway, having my imagination take over like that, was quite the temporal activity and not, again, a fire ill-contained--a flight--whatever... I think it was more like a sense of "inner-liberty." Rumi's expansive translator Coleman Barks quotes Abraham Joshua Heschel... it's his words that give this context: Inner Liberty.