Wordless

William B. Turner
2 min readSep 24, 2022
The Buddha

A leit motif of my writing on the Buddhist path is that it is littered with paradoxes. A really big, annoying one is that awakening, both how to to it and the effects of it, defy description, but the best way humans have to communicate with each other is through language.

We need words, but no words will do.

I sometimes think that I should stop writing about the Buddhist path because you should stop reading about it and…

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