no-thingness

If I ask: What did you do yesterday? Now what did I do yesterday? In fact I´ve forgotten… but most will say: well let me see now, let me get out my notebook! I got up at 7:30, and I brushed my teeth, and I read the newspaper over a cup of coffee, and then I looked at the clock and dressed, and got in the car and drove downtown, and did this and that in the office. and you go on and on and on and you suddenly discover what you have described has absolutly nothing to do with what happened. You have described a scraggerly, sceletol, fleshless list of abstractions. as if you were actually aware of what went on, you could never describe it. because nature is multidimensional. language is linear. language is scroany and therefore, if you identified the world as it is, with the way the world is described, it´s as if you eat dollar bills and expect a nutritious diet.

-Alan Watts, the tao of philosophy