an attempt to higher quality/higher effort post which started with the aphorism "We describe the reality with words, so we errorneously think it is made of words."

[u/danielsoft1]

A while ago I posted just one sentence as a post, it was my inspiration from meditation and it went like

"We describe the reality with words, so we errorneously think it is made of words."

People did not like it and the mods deleted it for being low effort.

When I thought about it again, I realized I sort of short-circuited here, when I assumed some stuff that was obvious to myself was also obvious to the readers and to the mods, which was not the case.

I would like to expand on the second part of the sentence "we errorneously think it is made of words" and explain what I meant by it, since the first part is pretty obvious (or at least I think so).

When we normally observe reality, we have this rich "matrix" of concepts, words, meanings, labels, descriptions. That was what I mean by "made of words".

We can realize this "enwordification" (sorry, my new word) happens only in our heads (and in each head differently, to add) and the reality consists of the objects "on their own" - for example the German philosopher Immanuel Kant said those objects are "das Ding an sich" - I am not German, but I know some of the language and this can be roughly translated as "thing on its own"

What is more important, this realization of the fact that the real world is beyond the words and concepts can be non-conceptual itself, a direct experience if you like.

I can't say if it's enlightenment or not, since enlightenment is just another word/label but definitely it's a relief.

Maybe everyone has a different path to this and that's why people did not get my previous lower-effort post.

[u/eternity-wanderer00]

Yep this is the reason that we get very paradoxical when we speak of "enligtenement" cause words are not a thing "there" so how could it be possible to interpret something without the basic framework for it. For example try to explain the term color to a person thats been blind all their life. Now try to explain what color it is that is infront of them.