"The physical world is a million vibrations - but what is it that vibrates, pulsates? Color for the eye, sound for the ear, smell for the nose, touch for the fingers. They are just different languages for describing one thing, different qualities of perception, different dimensions of awareness. "What are these different forms of?" - the question seems pointless. What light is to the eye, sound is to the ear. It seems to me that the senses are not expressions, forms, dimensions of a common thing, but of each other, as if forming a circle. If we observe more closely, shape turns into color, color into vibration, vibration into sound, sound into scent, scent into taste, taste into touch, touch into shape again.
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The physical world is a million vibrations - but what is it that vibrates, pulsates? Color for the eye, sound for the ear, smell for the nose, touch for the fingers. They are just different languages for describing one thing, different qualities of perception, different dimensions of awareness. "What are these different forms of?" - the question seems pointless. What light is to the eye, sound is to the ear. It seems to me that the senses are not expressions, forms, dimensions of a common thing, but of each other, as if forming a circle. If we observe more closely, shape turns into color, color into vibration, vibration into sound, sound into scent, scent into taste, taste into touch, touch into shape again.
""A fizikai világ millió vibrálás - de mi az, ami rezeg, lüktet? A szemnek a szín, a fülnek a hang, az orrnak az illat, az ujjaknak az érintés. Ezek csak különböző nyelvek egyetlen dolog leírására, az érzékelés különböző minőségei, a tudatosság különböző dimenziói. "Mi az, aminek ezek eltérő formái?" - a kérdés értelmetlennek tűnik. Ami a szemnek a fény, az a fülnek a hang. Nekem úgy tűnik, az érzékek nem egy közös dolog kifejezésmódjai, formái, dimenziói, hanem egymásé, mintegy kört alkotva. Ha jobban megfigyeljük, az alak színné változik, a szín rezgéssé, a rezgés hanggá, a hang illattá, az illat ízzé, az íz tapintássá, a tapintás ismét alakká."