Like any powerfully transformative experience, one wants to share it – like Nish says – we are pack animals and we measure and validate our existence relative to the group.
We seek constant validation; we’re human and this is normal.
But as I cast around for someone to share this with, I simply can’t, and I can see why people are silent regarding kenshō. To whom might I speak? About what? In order even to try and describe the experience (so that then I might be able to discuss the changes ongoing in me that have and are resulting from that experience) I must necessarily speak in cryptic riddles, because, quite simply, it is indescribable directly.
It may be experienced directly, but not described. There is little frame of reference in the language of human experience to describe it, and as the other has no shared experience to be evoked and recalled by the description, we are lost.
We are reduced to metaphor and inference.
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