Music seems to be the bridge over the gulf between form and the formless.
Never look at the visible supply; always look at the limitless riches in the formless substance and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.
Without a need to constantly remain attached to ideas and beliefs, the clarity of your formless form recognizes the truth of itself - with nothing to confirm or ever deny.
The soul. . . is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass.
He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with "It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
Tantric Zen is the original Zen, Zen without rules, Zen without form. Zen can certainly take rules and form. So Tantric Zen might have some rules and form, but it would remain formless even though it had rules and form.
Out of the formless the forms appear.
From form to formless and from finite to infinite
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.
Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance.
Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.
The formless cannot be based on the form. The form needs to be based on the formless.
A person can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.
A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.
The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.
