#insubstantial

[manorinthewoods]

Short gag I've been prompted to think of: A student is at the beach mumbling serenely. Except what they are mumbling about is class.

[geraldofallon]

Attributes, Qualities, Quirks

Insubstantial

[howifeltabouthim]

All of it seemed a ruin now—ancient and barely substantial.

Tanith Lee, from White as Snow

[turntex]

Larva, Chrysalis, and Imago Stage of the Insubstantial Angel from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Second Impression

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Shakespeare Sunday

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare, The Tempest

[we-are-a-dragon]

DM: Damaris uses reverse resistance on the ghost. It loses ‘resist half damage’, and gains ‘vulnerable 5 damage’.

Hamish (playing Thaddeus): That’s not how insubstantial works!

DM: It’s listed under ‘resistances’!

Hamish: Oh.

DM: ...It also reverses its resistances to disease and poison.

[terrypratchettparadise]

"Granny had never had much time for words.  They were so insubstantial.  Now she wished that she had found the time.  Words were indeed insubstantial.  They were as soft as water, but they were also as powerful as water and now they were rushing over the audience, eroding the levees of veracity, and carrying away the past."

- Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters

[errantabbot]

To be a Buddhist or a Buddha

Buddhism’s key concepts are impermanence (anicca) and insubstantiality (anatta)- not minding these pointers one is prone to slip into suffering (dukkha). Full understanding and continuously recognizing impermanence and insubstantiality, suffering is halted before it can begin- this is what it means to practice the Buddha Dharma.

~Sunyananda