💥Why Truth Can’t Be Explained

[0:00]you need to understand something that almost everybody gets wrong about all these ancient texts. These ancient texts were not trying to be mysterious. They weren't trying to be poetic. They weren't trying to confuse anybody. They were trying to describe the utterly indescribable. By using a human brain and human language that was never designed to grasp any of this at all. That is truly the core problem. Language. So language, any language is a cage. It's a net with holes that are way too wide to catch something that's truly infinite. And the people who wrote these texts, they knew that. That's why Lao Tzu opens the Tao de Ching with the most brutally honest sentence in the ancient texts altogether. The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. The meaning is, the moment that you try to explain ultimate truth, you've already distorted it and filtered it and tried to contain it. Jesus understood this too. He literally tells the disciples that he speaks in parables because most people aren't ready to comprehend truth directly. They didn't have language for quantum physics and non-duality consciousness models like we do today, which is still an infantile language. They had to compress the infinite into words. So every ancient culture hit the exact same wall. How do you describe an experience bigger than thought itself with a language that's built out of thought? How do you describe God, unity, infinity, consciousness with a vocabulary built for farms, and weather, and trading spices and chickens with each other? How do you tell people the universe is one before they even understand atoms or galaxies or even their own mind? The answer is, you can't. So they did the only thing that they could. They spoke in metaphors and symbols and myths and stories, poetry and parables and riddles. And sometimes it was just silence, and they didn't do this to hide the truth. The truth was just too large to fit through the doorway of our primitive little language.