I Am The Thought You Are Now

No Matter What Verbal Space You Try To Enclose Zen In, It Resists, And Spills Over... The Zen Attitude Is That Words And Truth Are Incompatible, Or At Least That No Words Can Capture Truth.

You Can Never Represent Yourself Totally .... To Seek Self -knowledge Is To Embark On A Journey Which ... Will Always Be Incomplete, Cannot Be Charted On A Map, Will Never Halt, Cannot Be Described.

Perhaps The Problem Is The Seeming Need That People Have Of Making Black-and-white Cutoffs When It Comes To Certain Mysterious Phenomena, Such As Life And Consciousness. People Seem To Want There To Be An Absolute Threshold Between The Living And The Nonliving, And Between The Thinking And The "merely Mechanical," ... But The Onward March Of Science Seems To Force Us Ever More Clearly Into Accepting Intermediate Levels Of Such Properties.

No Reference Is Truly Direct — Every Reference Depends On Some Kind Of Coding Scheme. It's Just A Question Of How Implicit It Is.

Perhaps The Most Concise Summary Of Enlightenment Would Be: Transcending Dualism . ... Dualism Is The Conceptual Division Of The World Into Categories ... Human Perception Is By Nature A Dualistic Phenomenon - Which Makes The Quest For Enlightenment An Uphill Struggle, To Say The Least.