Better Language

[EmptyInside]

Might we come up with better words to describe the undescribable than conscious, consciousness, god, enlightened, awakened, etc?

[Someone here]

"The tao that can be said is not the eternal tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. "

-Lao Tzu.

 

Note :but also it is since it is everything. It has no name precisely because it IS all names. 

Luckily you don't need a pointer to point to the only thing that there is. The pointer is what's being pointed at and isn't it simultaneously. This sums this issue up properly. 

[Willie]

Talk is cheap.

[ajai]

Good question EmptyInside, and the title of the thread is so appropriate, that it hits the nail at the point where it must be hit at,

So yes of course, there are better ways to articulate a subject matter more eloquently and that requires work.

One of the work of different works that comes to mind is to "READ", so start reading good books of great value with key insights and helpful lexicon and diction, only then we might find ourselves articulating a subject matter, hitting at it's very core/purpose and have patience, allow the process to happen.

Regards.

Edited December 12, 2020 by ajai

[TheAvatarState]

@EmptyInside what is a word? Notice that when you say "consciousness," it is already radically different than what 99% of people mean by "consciousness." 

That being said, Eastern cultures have words such as satori or Yugen. But they don't have any inherent meaning unless that state has been achieved by both speaker and listener. And every satori experience is unique, so at best it's a rough approximation of a range of consciousness states.