Existence Has No Language

 

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Existence Has No Language

If we depend on language there can be no communication with existence, as existence knows no language! Existence is a mystery, we cannot interpret it. If we interpret it, we will miss. Existence can be lived, but not thought about. It is more like poetry, less like philosophy. It is a sign, it is a door. It shows, but it says nothing.

The problem is we think about existence – our mind comes in the picture – this is the barrier to approach existence. Thinking about existence will never bring us close – we need to learn to look, see, feel, and touch! Then we will be nearer. The moment we think we go off track and into a private world – thinking takes us into a private world. This is our own private world, we are imprisoned in our own mind. The moment we stop thinking, we are no more – non-thinking we become open, porous, existence flows into us and we flow into existence.

The mind’s tendency is to interpret, even before things have happened, the mind starts playing the ‘what if’ game. That’s how listening becomes impossible. We will have to learn to listen. Listening means we are open, vulnerable, receptive, but we are not in any way thinking. Thinking is a positive action. Listening is passivity: we become like a valley and receive; we become like a womb and we receive. If we can listen, then nature speaks - but it is not a language.

If we move into nature to find where it leads, don’t stand outside it and ask because then nothing can be done; we have to move into it. If we move we will never come back, because the very movement into existence… and we are losing our ego, we are disappearing. We will reach to the goal, but we will never come back to relate the story about it. Nobody comes back. Nobody can come back, because the more existential we become, the more we are lost.

Existence opens millions of doors for us, but we stand outside and we would like to know something about it from the outside. There is no outside in nature, everything is inside… because how can anything exist outside nature? The whole is the inner. 

And the mind is trying the impossible; it is trying to stand outside, to watch, to see what it means. No, we have to participate. We have to move into it and become one, and disperse like a cloud - whereabouts unknown. Merge into nothingness!