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.