Learn Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan … Really? Why?

To suggest that learning Sanskrit, Pali or Tibetan will get us closer to our reality is not only idiotic, it is a misdirection.

Absolute truth did not start anywhere. It just is. In the silent stillness of the mind, the truth that we are pure consciousness can be revealed. We have always been pure consciousness, but have been led astray by imaginative elaborations.

Ultimate truth is inconceivable.
Inconceivable: incapable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable, beyond
belief.Conceivable: capable of being imagined or grasped mentally.

Pure consciousness is neither a concept nor a language in the mind; it can only be realised in pure experience, before words are created to describe it.

All interpretations are a mental construct.
Pure consciousness is beyond mental constructs.

A word or sound in a foreign language, although enthralling and fascinating, has no meaning until we read the translation into our own language. The Sanskrit term ‘shunyata’ means ’emptiness’. Using the word ‘shunyata’ doesn’t have a special power or meaning – and actually, ’emptiness’ doesn’t either, until it is experienced.

There’s a lot of mumbo-jumbo out there … be careful.

(‘Mumbo jumbo’ is something that’s meaningless or confusing, but which pretends to make sense. It’s often used to describe overly-complicated wording or ridiculous embellishments, and this causes us to be reliant on beliefs).

The words that we need to start our journey to now-here
– ultimate truth –
are within our own language.

Then we let go of understanding,
resting in inconceivability.
🙂