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Brahmâ-vihâras, their object being to ensure rebirth not in the heaven of Brahmâ but in one of the heavens known as Formless Worlds where the inhabitants have no material form [697].
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896
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Formless Deathcoats, Dwarf Pirate Submariners, a Rodent Yojimbo †the wildest imaginings of a young boy become all too real in this breakout epic from superstar writer Grant Morrison and rising talent Sean Murphy.
DC Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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The opposite of form is called "The Formless," which is hard to imagine, but here is my attempt.
Paul David Walker: Leadership Insights: Eliminate Endless Circular Arguments Paul David Walker 2010
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Formless and free, it is the opposite of the arrow, but its destination is similarly unknown.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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The dualities of the Egyptian Ogdoad which gives us eight forces of four principles -- the Chaos and the Void, the Formless and the Hidden -- in male and female aspects, represent a recognition that order is merely the emergence of the dialectic from the chaotic.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007
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"Formless Furniture" shows a collection of experimental seating furniture that traces the rejection of traditional furniture forms from the 1960s to today.
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Formless Thing that had haunted the shores of the Sea of Sleep.
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Clinging to the bareness of nonconceptuality results in rebirth on the plane of formless beings (Formless Realm).
Commentary on An Aspiration Prayer for the Definitive Meaning of Mahamudra ��� 4 Boon Experiences, Stable Realizations and Final Attainments Beru Khyentse Rinpoche 2006
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And even if his systematic philosophical articulations of the idea of Absolute Nothingness owe more to Western than Eastern texts, he nevertheless understands himself to have autonomously (i.e., in the process of engaging in a nonsectarian philosophical search for truth) given expression to the Formless that is harbored in the traditions of the East.
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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The degree to which the Kyoto School thinkers were successful in their boldly paradoxical quest to give philosophical form to the Formless can be debated.
The Kyoto School Davis, Bret W. 2006
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