Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

The descriptive nature of language

...is only useful for helping people understand why the prescriptive or injunctive nature of language is most important. The sage says, in essence, "Attend THIS rather than imagine things ABOUT this." If the seeker follows the injunction, s/he has realizations and acquires embodied understanding.

If the seeker doesn't see the importance of following the injunction, then the sage may need to explain in greater detail what's going on or ask the seeker to inquire into the nature of various assumptions underlying the seeker's beliefs (that are obvious to the sage but not obvious to the seeker).