Can you understand something without being able to express it in words? If you can't express it in words, does this mean that you don't have a good or clear understanding of it?
I notice when I meditate I reflect on or contemplate many things which seem to have importance on the Path, and it seems like certain things click in my mind, like puzzle pieces coming together and parts of the bigger picture becoming clearer, but when I try to put these understandings into words I find I have a hard time doing it.
Is there any mention of this in the Buddha's teachings?
I hope this post makes some kind of sense.
Don
Words & Understanding
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Words & Understanding
The watched mind brings happiness.
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
Re: Words & Understanding
The orthodox view is that pacceka Buddha has realized Buddhahood but cannot teach Dhamma (beyond simple ethics) to others. Also, Arahant Assaji couldn't teach much Dhamma to Ven. Sariputta.
So it is not required to be a talented teacher in order to achieve awakening.
So it is not required to be a talented teacher in order to achieve awakening.
Re: Words & Understanding
Hello
Why do you want to put it into words?
From what I get from your post, you understand it, but are unable to put words on the experince, that is fine, the important thing is for
you to understand it.
Many times if we try to put words on our experinces, especially meditation experinces, we only come up with something far from the
real experince anyway.
Why do you want to put it into words?
From what I get from your post, you understand it, but are unable to put words on the experince, that is fine, the important thing is for
you to understand it.
Many times if we try to put words on our experinces, especially meditation experinces, we only come up with something far from the
real experince anyway.
If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you
let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely,
you will know complete peace and freedom.
Ajahn Chah
let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely,
you will know complete peace and freedom.
Ajahn Chah
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Re: Words & Understanding
Thank you both for your replies!
With Metta,
Don
With Metta,
Don
The watched mind brings happiness.
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
Re: Words & Understanding
Don,
Relax, my friend!
with metta
Ben
Relax, my friend!
with metta
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
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Re: Words & Understanding
Lol!Ben wrote:Don,
Relax, my friend!
with metta
Ben
The watched mind brings happiness.
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman
Dhp 36
I am larger and better than I thought. I did not know I held so much goodness.
Walt Whitman