Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: Well said. You can go even further, though. Names separate you from the true nature ...

Well said. You can go even further, though. Names separate you from the true nature of things. A name represents a mental model, which you are familiar with and possibly even a little bored with. But how was it when you were a little kid, exploring the world? Salamanders were dragons! The floor was lava! The pillows stacked up were a fort! But over time, you learned names for everything, and names for parts of things, and for concepts, and more "useful" abstractions. But those things were more real than they are now. Without the name, the thing was the thing in itself ; with the name, you don't experience the thing anymore. Without a name, you had to observe every feature, and couldn't compare it with a standard of what things like it ought to be like. That state was fully in the eternal and happy present.