Understanding language allows one to see the unspoken essence of human existence. Words shape our experience of the world, but must not limit our existence.

Things are separable in words which are inseparable in nature because words are counters and classifiers which can be arranged in any order. The word ‘being’ is formally separate from the word ‘nothing,’ as ‘ pleasure ‘ from ‘pain.’ But in nature being and nothing, or solid and space, constitute a relationship as inseparable as back and front.

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Silent observation… is exactly what is meant here by feeling (as distinct from particular feelings), the attitude and approach whereby nature must be explored if we are to recover our original sense of integrity with the natural world. In Taoism and Zen this attitude is called kuan, or ‘wordless contemplation.’ Just as one must sometimes be silent in order to hear what others have to say, so thought itself must be silent if it is to think about anything other than itself. We need hardly be surprised if, in default of this silence, our minds begin to be haunted by words about words about words. It is a short step from this to the fantasy that the word is prior to nature itself, when, in fact, it is only prior to the classification of nature-to the sorting of nature into things and events. For it is things, not the natural world itself, which are created by the word. But, for lack of mental silence, the two are confused.

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excessive verbal communication is really the characteristic disease of the West. We are simply unable to stop it, for when we are not talking to others we are compulsively thinking, that is, talking subvocally to ourselves. Communica­tion has become a nervous habit, and cultures strike us as mys­terious and baffling which do not at once tell all, or, worse, expect us to understand certain things without being told.