We think we have to deal with our problems in a way that exterminates them, that distorts or denies their reality. But in doing so, we try to make Reality into something other than what it is.
In other words, if you can think of how Reality is, you can be sure that’s how it isn’t. Reality simply cannot be put into a conceptual form— not even through analogy, for there’s nothing like it. Reality simply
doesn’t fit into concepts at all.
If you try to speak of Truth or Reality, you can’t say what it is, because it won’t fit into words or concepts. This is why we get so frustrated with enlightenment. We can’t put our finger on it. We can’t get it into our hands. We’re used to getting a conceptual handle on things. (And when we don’t, we often abandon them.) But Truth doesn’t go into...
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