Truth is truth, not the explanations of truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the truth, but you cannot explain or even consciously recognize it. In order to recognize the truth, you have to separate yourself from it, and to explain the truth, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is an exercise of impossible prerequisites. This is why a wordsmithed truth is nothing but a shadow of the barest silhouette of the truth. If Buddha had yawned instead of holding up a flower, would that gesture have been any less representative of the truth?

It is sometimes possible to represent the truth with words, write by Ilchi Lee. However, in that case, it is not the words themselves but the power of the vibration of the words as spoken by the speaker and the surrounding atmosphere that work together to make the speech into an experience, an entertainment event featuring the truth that allows you a tiny glimpse into the truth. But there is a world of difference in being at the “event” and reading about it in a newspaper article later on. Even if you had been there and felt the power of the event, you will be disappointed by the sterile words if you read the transcript of the same speech later on.

If you try to approach the truth only through words, this is akin to reading the transcript of the talk. Such is the limitation of language. Although it will do for our everyday lives, it is too small a vessel to hold the water of the truth and too rough a mesh to catch the flow of the truth.