The Seer

It’s often said that the truth is impossible to express in words. This seems strange for a language that is so varied and eloquent and so many books and discourses have been produced about it. The simple reason for this is that the truth of who/what you are is that principle before the advent of language and mind. Language formed later, you were already the fact. Look at a young child and it is seen that it is aware of you long before it has developed concepts and language.

Language was invented to communicate and express the reality that the person found themselves in. And so language is all about the duality of the world seen to be around us. This means that there are no words to express the non-duality of who you actually are prior to language, they are all geared to duality and concepts.

By concepts I mean the word tree isn’t an actual tree, it’s only a concept, a mental picture we learn to represent a tree so we all know what it is that’s being referred to. We may not be referring to one specific tree, it’s a general concept.

Non-dualists use the term pointers to the truth and not claim they are stating the truth. And non-dual is used instead of one’ness because one is part of language and is a concept and immediately brings with it two and we’re right back into duality once more – the concept of numbers. Non-duality is not learned as the opposite to duality even though it is.

You are Awareness and that’s not a concept.

~ by Roy Townsend