Three pound of rice is a precise description of a reproducible standard ideal. You can take that literally. Words that point can't be taken literally.

Before "its a thing" went into the street vocabulary, to call something a "thing" was to imply it was just a dead object.

Nouns are different than verbs. Nouns are names of things mostly. Naming something with a noun implies it is a fixed reality that is not in constant change. There is a permanence implied.

Verbs express the motion or being. Verbs acknowledge that there is change, not fixed. Not permanent. The world isn't what we thought it was. What ever you think it is, void that. The world without what you think of it is void. Its a no thing. That is square one of freedom.

You can add "ing" onto a noun and make it a verb, its fun. The tree is appling (the tree apples). Its an unfolding.

When pointing with words, zen does not use words in the conventional sense, nor does it even literally honor the limits of any definition, whether the definition be from a thousand years ago or today. What is pointed at cannot be contained in words or grasped through words. Pointing and recognition is how zen transmission happens.

Do whatever it takes to break the tyranny of words, the tyranny of language. You can't see the world through words and see.

Submitted October 10, 2019 at 07:39AM by rockytimber https://ift.tt/2nxYHyd