Words Are Blunt Tools
The senses cannot be described; they are just experienced. The warmth of the sun, the chirping of birds, the smell of grass, the taste of our spit, the play of air on our skin … all are indescribable.
They are pure experience. There is no need for names.
That which is aware of this pure experience is also indescribable.
Words do not cut the mustard to express indescribable experience.
(When mustard plants were cut by hand with scythes, this required an extremely sharp tool; when these implements were blunt, they would not “cut the mustard”).
Words are a blunt tool.