Experience without language. Wordless being.
Tag: language
What we are does not exist in language.
Zen koans paradoxically use language to demonstrate the absurdity and futility of language in recognising the nature of mind.
It’s easy to succumb to the soothing embrace of words and language when often we’re really falling into a trap.
Words can never capture what we are – language always fails beautifully in this regard – but this chap has a lovely turn of phrase and a simple brevity which always makes me smile and feel a gentle ‘yes’ every time I read him.
No matter how compelling or beautiful they may be, words appeal in the main to the linear, thinking mind that thinks in words.
— Dōgen
At every moment where language can’t go, that’s your mind.
— Bodhidharma
What’s here now? 