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The Buddha said, "Words are neither different nor not different to Reality. If meaning is different from words, it will not be made manifest by words."

No word ever has the same meaning twice - neither for the speaker nor for the listener. Things are neither forms nor words, nor are they not forms and words: they are just what they are. Things are not what they are because of our naming. Truth is not nominal. The colour blue is blue because it is blue; it is called blue, and it is blue.

Do not become lost in absurd metaphysical and semantic arguments. We do not make reality, and nor do we not make it.

 

 

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