Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
we can express these things in language, the language itself has
meaning, the words that we're expressing have meaning. It means
particular feelings; you can point to particular things. That's
where meaning exists.
TRIP: In the language.
NORIO KUSHI: Another definition of mean is measure, so in the
manifest world language makes these distinctions and separate,
and therefore means these different things.
WIZARD: So these sharings linguistically are taking a thorn to
remove a thorn?
NORIO KUSHI: Yes, exactly. Yes, exactly. And I'd like to say
something more about language that we do not really appreciate,
because we're just one into this language, we don't appreciate the
power of language. Before 2005, I thought that language was
primarily for communication, and so when I inquired well how
was I fooled that the phantom self was real for so long, 50 years of
my life, whatever. What occurred was the insights which began to
show up was one was that language is where the trick is created.
Language is how the trick is created. The power of languages
actually creates the human tapestry; it creates the human reality,
even in the natural world. In order to see a tree we have to have
the word tree first. That is a mind blower.
WIZARD: Do you speak Japanese?
NORIO KUSHI: Actually Japanese was my first language,
although I was born in New York City, up until nine I could still
remember dreaming sometimes or making up songs in Japanese.
WIZARD: Is it fundamentally different?
NORIO KUSHI: There is a difference, yes. Definitely.
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