« …ce secret n’est que la présence intérieure, silencieuse, insondable et nue, qu’une attention toujours donnée aux mots (aux objets) nous dérobe… »
Georges Bataille, L’expérience intérieure (Gallimard)
(« …this secret is nothing but the inner presence, silent, unfathomable and naked, which is hidden from us by our constant attention to words (objects)… »)
Le Web carnet de Amy Hollowell Sensei, fondatrice de la Wild Flower Zen Sangha et successeur de Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi dans le lignage Zen Soto de Taizan Maezumi Roshi, fondateur du Centre Zen de Los Angeles.
The Web notebook of Amy Hollowell Sensei, founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha and dharma successor of Catherine Genno Pagès Roshi in the Soto Zen lineage of Taizan Maezumi Roshi, founder of the Los Angeles Zen Center.
Each word is a judgement.
narcissus, daffodil, we grasp, we lock her up in words/gestalts, locking up ourselves? – confirming ourselves? This is life?
J. L. Borgès somewhere wrote that you could better write about the moon in german ‘die/der moon’, than in other languages. The sound on the abstract level was better than in english or french…
A student ones said: but ‘la lune’ is better for a new moon… when we see little of her…
All this expresses how we (*) want the word to express the essence??? of something…
?
From where this longing???
?
While the moon ‘is’ the moon , and we can experience her. And we call her ‘the moon’.
(*) some of us, others not