Therefore, when a Life Current passes over the surface of the sea of nothingness and creates a pattern of waves, it not only creates an informational pattern that is used to build the world of shapes and forms but it alerts us to the existence of the sea itself. Therefore, through the flow of Life Current, nothingness is revealed, somethingness is produced, and nothingness is recognized as the source of all somethingness. This is the grand harmony, a ceaseless cosmic motion. This wind of life upon the sea of nothingness is sometimes termed Yuln’yo in the Korean spiritual traditions.
Among these endless cycles of movements and patterns, Prof Ilchi Lee tells that some of which are expressed in material shapes and forms, can anything be singled out as the truth? Truth, in actuality, is the whole process by which nothingness and somethingness are revealed by the flow of the Life Current, differentiated but connected. The process itself is the truth, not separate, observable steps within the process. The movements of the Life Current leave a residue on our minds, and out of those residues that our minds can recognize, we convert an even smaller fraction of that into words and languages in a process of simplification.
Therefore, a truth that has been intellectually digested and expressed through words can only be a shadow of the silhouette of the original truth. It is but the most minute traces of the truth. This applies even to the words I am writing now, to all the sacred texts ever written, and to the sayings of all the great enlightened teachers in the history of humankind. If you could bring together all the words ever generated in an attempt to explain the truth, it would be no more momentous than a yawn. This is the stark limitation of language.
The truth is the movement, the process occurring right at this moment. Therefore, although you can become one with the truth, you cannot intellectually recognize or explain it. To see and recognize the truth, you have to separate yourself from the truth. To explain the truth in words, you have to separate yourself from the recognition. This is why a truth that has been wordsmithed is only a shadow of the barest silhouette of the truth. A yawn would contain more truth than that.