Freedom From Words

Seeing Through Words Into Freedom

An inner peace quote on becoming free from words by Bodhidharma

"We are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was.” - Terry Pratchett.

Words are very helpful for communication, but are they the truth of anything? They are sounds assigned to objects. The sounds are not the objects. A door is not really "a door", we just call it "a door" so we both know what we are talking about.

Go beyond words by seeing they can only describe and point. They are not the truth of anything.

People often ask how they can slow down the momentum of a noisy mind. It slows by itself when you stop taking every word to be the truth of anything...

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