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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

If enlightenment cannot be communicated and truth cannot be shared among all then such things are merely personal illusions of grandeur.
Enlightenment is seeing, hearing, and feeling a natural state of being, a realization at which we can arrive by allowing ourselves to acknowledge it. That’s why I say that enlightenment is a choice the choice [...]