Words Are The Vehicles Of Illusion

We love words – our minds are full of words, and we speak them all the time. They tell our story, but all the while, they are the illusion in which we live in.

Words are not the truth; they merely describe experience. A description of a thing is never the thing itself. When we rely entirely on words, we are not experiencing reality – we’re experiencing an interpretation of it.

Words filter, distort and exaggerate simplicity into a complex narrative that we then mistake for facts. Belief is a mental structure built out of language. Reality, however, exists completely independent of whatever names we give it.

‘Spiritual’ terminology masks our reality: Rigpa, Dharmakaya, Shunyata, Turiya, Zen, Tao, Klesa, Dukkha … all distract from the experience of pure observation.

“I am in Rigpa”. No: you are in an idea of Rigpa.
“I am in God”. No: you are in an idea of God.

When we fall in love with words we become spellbound.
Simple pure consciousness has no words, and sees all.