How do I speak of such a thing? Perhaps this story will help.
There is a story about a young monk who went to his master and asked how to know God. His master responded “listen to the sound of one hand clapping.” So the young monk went away and meditated as best he could on hearing the sound. At first he heard the sound of the wind through the trees and thought that that was it. So he went back to his master and described what he had heard in the master said “no that is not it.” So he went back and meditated and heard the cumulative sounds of nature all around him and thought that that was it. He went back to his master but the master said “no that is not. This went on and on for some time with the young monk returning each day to the master describing all of the things he thought was the sound of one hand clapping. Finally, one day the young monk did not come back. Concerned, the master sent another student in search of him to see if he was okay or what had happened. When the students saw him sitting beneath a tree with a beautiful glow around him he realized that he had heard the sound. The student returned to the master and told him what he saw, whereby the master went to see for himself and approached the young monk and said “have you heard it?” The young monk opened his eyes and replied “Yes master, but I cannot speak it.”
“God is an unspoken word. God is a word that speaks itself.” Meister Eckhart.
“You are the spoken word, but a word that only you can speak” LotharSchaeffer” “In the beginning was the word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” –Bible “My Father (God) and I are one”– Jesus
May you go deep into the heart of God to find the place where all things, including words, are but symbols leading to the unspeakable.
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