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October 15, 2009 at 18:26:51 Permalink
People have a working vocabulary of 3 dozen words

Diary Entry by Hans-Wolfgang (about the author)

In fact, one who knows the deathless should be free of the fear of death. And of what worth is that nectar which is afraid of death? One who knows the secret of non-violence should cease to fear violence. What kind of non-violence is it that is scared of violence? And how can the spirit, the soul, fear the body and run away from it? And what is the meaning of God if he cannot take the whole of this world in his embrace?

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The world is made of language: our conceptual apparatus is what enables us to experience reality.
People who have a working vocabulary of 3 dozen words will probably not have the depth of experience of a poet or someone who engages the act of expression in their daily lives. Rather, they will probably be doomed to relating their experiences through shared cultural forms such as television shows, or inane news bytes.
Emotions cannot be expressed and shared (and, incidentally, may not be fully experienced) if we do not have the vocabulary for it.
It is erroneous to think of Vishnu as a person. Rama is a person; Vishnu is not. Krishna is a person; Vishnu is not. Vishnu is the name of energy, power. But there is a reason for the mistake of taking him to be a person. Every insight in the past was expressed in poetry, and poetry even turns energy into a person. Out of necessity it had to do so; we could not have expressed it otherwise. But then this way of expression resulted in creating any number of riddles in mythology.

Some things in life are bad
They can really make you mad
Other things just make you swear and curse.
When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the (more...)

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