Terminology Obscures Experience

We become proud of the words we use and that, in itself, is our problem. 

We should choose words carefully. Terms such as ‘suffering’, ‘clinging’, ‘grasping’, can suggest something extreme, when the experience and cause is much subtler. The same goes for ‘compassion’; it’s just a word unless we are at one – empathetic – with whatever appears, without sentimentalit or judgement.

Our problem is that our attachment to words becomes worship. 
Terminology binds us to our group.

When we are one with whatever appears, all is new and fresh,
before the words and feelings become a projection,
and an exaggeration.