Posted on November 13th, 2009 by admin
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Take a digital camera and take a picture of the most beautiful flower you have ever seen. Now download this image into your computer and magnify it. Soon you will no longer see a flower or anything you can recognize. All you will see are dots of varying colors and spaces in between those dots. Then you will no longer even see the colors of the dots. They will just be jagged-edged blobs.
What happened to the flower, its petals quivering, and sunlight glinting off the dew on its petals? The vibration of life you felt with this flower has disappeared into the digitized image. In like manner, truth and life cannot be captured by languages in any form— either in words or dots.
It is like trying to capture the sea by throwing a net into it. How can we catch the sea? Why do we keep casting the net? We should throw away the net and just jump into the sea, play with the waves and foam. The sea will receive you only when you throw yourself into it. You and the sea will become one. Only then can you say that you have “obtained” the sea.
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by admin
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We are not here to discuss the limitations of languages, however. Besides the truth, there are everyday experiences that often will not lend themselves to language. When we come across new experiences, we want to quantify and understand the experience; however, understanding an experience is the same as organizing the experience into words. When you [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by admin
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A person’s name, of course, is not the only kind of name in our language. Our linguistic system is composed of names. Nouns are names by definition; verbs are names of actions; and adjectives or adverbs are names of a shape or situation. Our awareness was trained and matured in this realm of names. Therefore, [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Wood, timber, firewood, two-by-fours? All these names imply different uses for that same piece of wood. Your choice of a name betrays your intent, and it also reflects the system of value judgments of your society.
Ultimately, how close our social value system comes to reflect the life value system of the underlying truth of existence [...]
Posted on November 1st, 2009 by admin
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Life’s most basic functions, such as the beating of the heart, maintaining the blood pressure and body temperature, and regulations of the hormonal levels, are not things that we have to learn how to do. Eating, breathing, and drinking are never learned. Because they are never learned, they are never forgotten. You can consciously choose [...]