It’s hard to teach without using words. Words point the way to so many places. Yet to get where we’re going in meditation at some point we have to leave words behind. Words like spaciousness, clarity, humor, lovingkindness, letting go each point toward an experience that aims to be wordless.
I remember watching four or five people each carrying hang gliders up the last bit of a mountain. They’d gotten near the top with cars and trucks, but the last eighth of a mile was an obvious struggle. Then they got to the edge of a massive rock face and, waiting till the wind was right, they just leaned forward and pushed off. The wind—and significant, learned skill—did the rest. --MH
