WORDS TO DESCRIBE WORDS TO DESCRIBE WORDS, AD INFINITUM…
And yet, is there any word what-so-ever that can actually adequately explain ANY of this?
The birth, the pain, the laughter, the heart breaks, the love, the horror, the joy, the sadness, the fulfillment, the confusion, the suffering, the insights, the peace, the disappointments, the triumphs, the tragedies, the contentment, the death?
“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
-Muriel Rukeyser
Like many, I used to use words like “consciousness” and “awareness” and “nonduality” as if I actually knew what they meant, but now I realize I haven’t a clue. For example, we often hear the expression, “My awareness.” So there is this me that has something called awareness? Really? But if I look now, directly into this moment, I cannot locate an actual “me” anywhere nor can I locate an actual “awareness” that it possesses.
It seems that ALL words (including these) are inherently empty.
Thus “The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao” suddenly deeply resonates.
And that leaves nothing to say about any of this that could possibly be true.
Therefore, SILENCE seems the most honest thing I can “say” in this moment.
Michael Jeffreys
