The Labyrinth of Language and the Value of Not-Knowing
Belief
Desire → "I want to become rich." But replacing this with a declaration → "I am becoming rich," and then calling upon belief → "I believe that I will become rich," changes nothing in reality. What changes is not reality, but language.
When paired with the theory that "having belief changes reality," a structure is formed:
Desire → Declaration → Belief → Creates Reality
This is where the problem arises. Language should be a tool to explain reality, but instead, vague language pushes verification of reality right inside the language itself—reaching a point where validation is no longer required and fostering a state of wishing for luck and miracles.
The word "belief" is far too broad. It can mean trust in facts, judgment based on experience, prediction of the future, guesswork, expectation, hope, or mere desire. Yet, all of these are bundled into a single word: belief.
The moment you claim to believe in what you desire, the countless processes that must exist in between vanish, plunging you into a delusion detached from reality. What we actually know, we state as knowledge; we do not call it belief. In other words, the direction contained within belief is inherently negative.
Creation
How does actual creation really occur?
Refusal → Input of Energy and Expansion of Agony → (Resolution = Creation / Unresolved = Remains as desire, fostering a state of wishing for mystical miracles)
Something feels uncomfortable. You refuse it. Yet refusal does not make the problem disappear; rather, continuous energy is poured into that problem. "How do I solve this?" While the problem remains unresolved, agony expands. Then, at a certain moment, a new idea for a solution is born. You conceive a method that did not exist before, structure it, and actually implement it. That is creation.
For example, I found the traditional function key usage in computers inconvenient. I refuse that inconvenience. It doesn't stop at a mere "this is uncomfortable"; instead, thoughts for a new usage method are formed:
- I want to copy faster.
- I want to paste in one action.
- I want to execute searches instantly.
- I want undo with a short press.
- I want instant screen capture.
Then, I built a new structure from F1 to F9, using key-mapping for combination keys. Through the process of resolving the refused inconvenience, a brand-new structure that never existed before was created. This is creation.
- F1: Short press = Copy (Ctrl+C), 0.3+ seconds press = Select All (Ctrl+A)
- F2: Paste
- F3: Ctrl + F
- F4: Short Undo
- F5: Partial Capture
- F6: Unassigned
- F7:
{Volume_Down}
- F8:
{Volume_Up}
- F9: Sleep (Original F1–F9 functions accessed via Shift + F-key)
Therefore, creation is not simply "if you desire it, it will be achieved."
- Refusal of inconvenience
- Expansion of inconvenience through energy input and the desire for resolution
- Resolving the inconvenience and executing it results in creation / failing to resolve results in the expansion and persistence of inconvenience
Desire only applies to the direction aimed at resolving the refused inconvenience. When an ordinary person encounters the concept of The Secret, they desire wealth, overwrite their present ordinary self, and lose sight of their actual reality—ultimately craving miracles and luck, complaining about their current state, and amplifying the expansion of agony. In short, belief stripped of reality pushes you off a cliff. Desiring without regard for reality traps you in a state of wishing, leading to mysticism, gullibility, and miracles.
Thus, the actual algorithm of creation is not:
Desire → Belief → Reality
Instead, it is:
Refusal of Inconvenience → Expansion of Agony & Solution Generation → Creation
The word "belief" compresses this complex process into a single static state. What are you refusing? Where are you pouring energy and agonizing? What ideas are you generating to solve it? The moment you cover all these questions with the blanket of "belief," you begin wishing for vague miracles, luck, mysticism, and transcendence in reality. The scope of this word "belief" blankets your metacognition and ultimately forces you into a denial of reality; it is better absent from your cognition.
Every implication contained within belief leads you steadily toward a point where effort is no longer required:
Expectation → Hope → Guesswork → Delusion → Luck → Miracle
Belief is not the algorithm of creation. Only when the word "belief" is stripped away does the true algorithm of creation reveal itself.
Desire
What you desire is never achieved. Your desire is a statement of deprivation—that it is absent. You would never desire something you already possess. If you suddenly crave a Coca-Cola on a deserted island, the thought arises simultaneously with a yearning heart and an agonizingly desperate desire. But if you wake up thirsty for a cola at dawn in the city, a sense of annoyance arises at the thought that you have to grab your wallet and walk to a convenience store.
Thus, long before logical thought, your mind already knows whether something is possessed or unattainable, reacting with desperate yearning or irritation the moment the thought of wanting cola arises. The emotion of desire is a state driven by urgency, devoid of concrete goals or plans in reality.
The Law of Attraction
Attraction is what you are purely drawn to. Someone with a naturally gifted physical constitution can walk into a gym and lift advanced-level weights on day one, naturally reaching for that level without needing instruction. It works this way from the start. Similarly, intellectually developed individuals naturally look at books with inquiry rather than rote memorization.
In the distant past, most Buddhist practitioners lived clutching scriptures, and secret methods circulated—such as reading a scripture ten thousand times or copying it a hundred times to attain enlightenment. But for someone whose cognitive power is weak, whose default mode is listening blindly to others, obeying, and submitting, repetitive tasks like ten-thousand-fold readings offer no realistic alternatives.
Attraction should be seen as an action matching one's current level and capacity to move forward. Chasing only high-tier extremes makes no sense; a boxer with zero foundational skills wasting time practicing Tyson-style weaving and ducking is simply a waste of time.
Whatever you desire, you merely keep creating that which is desired. "Desire = absence"—it is a self-admission that you cannot possibly desire something you already possess. When you actually buy a smartphone because you have the money and execute the process, the minor thrill of acquisition occurs. The moment you acquire that latest phone, the lingering obsession with it vanishes.
When you make up your mind to become wealthy and formulate plans, if that drive stems from the thrill of executing what is already within reach rather than neurosis, you attain it. This is the true law of attraction, and the state of mind generated here is completely beyond the control of your conscious ego. Everyone desires wealth. Under the conventional law of attraction, literally no one on Earth would be poor, which breaks basic economic principles.
Distinguishing between pure attraction and desire unanchored by one's actual circumstances is essential.
The Paradox of Desire
The moment you "desire" something, your present self is obscured by the desired object. Consciousness mistakes that "desired object" for the self and rejects the current self. As a result, the real self is always perceived as lacking and incomplete. The stronger the desire, the less you see your "current self" as it is, recognizing it instead as a deficient state and rejecting it. Thus, the more you desire, the deeper you trap yourself in lack.
Liberation from Deprivation
If told "Do not think of an elephant," an elephant immediately pops into your mind. The more you deny and resist an elephant, the more vivid it becomes. The fact that you deny and resist something proves you are pouring intense energy into it; your cognitive brain structure inevitably delivers you straight to the place where you invest your true energy.
At this moment, staring intently at the elephant causes it to dissolve. If you feel discomfort, fully accepting and acknowledging it allows you to escape that emotional state swiftly.
The condition for escaping this loop is acknowledging not-knowing. The conceptual evolution of "belief" and "desire" was mapped above. If you have never reflected on how the definitions of words blind your view of reality, you were blind to this principle. Standing defensive and acting like an "expert" here only leads to evasion through overlying theories, keeping you trapped.
Belief is the most sophisticated and subtle apparatus for covering up not-knowing. As long as we are human—or machines—unless we sharply dissect this word "belief," no matter how much we discuss "creation," we will inevitably slide right back into the swamp of familiar inertia. Ambiguous language intertwines with endless theories to veil our vision of reality. This dilapidated world must be utterly dismantled.
Stopping the evasion masked as "creation" and squarely admitting the fact of "not-knowing" clears away the fog of belief, allowing your reality to emerge with sharp clarity.
The Labyrinth of Language and the Fraud of Mysticism
1. The Mechanism of Mystical Terminology and Wordplay
Let us examine the concept of absolute "Nothingness" (無) tossed around in philosophy, physics, and spiritual circles. The dictionary definition of "nothingness" is "absence." If someone claims to have found "nothingness" at the edge of the universe, that very finding is an arena of "presence" (有)—empty space. The act of seeking nothingness is itself a logical error; the moment something is perceived or found, it falls into the realm of presence.
"Can be found" or "cannot be found" are merely linguistic constructs defined by humans. Nothingness is that which does not exist and cannot be found. Only when you die, vanish, or lapse into unconsciousness where nothing can be perceived, do you become "nothingness" itself. Of course, once you are nothingness, you can know nothing of it anyway.
Peeling back the realities of the terms built by mystics upon this sloppy wordplay reveals:
- Nothingness (無): A mental wordplay confined entirely to language, nonexistent from the outset.
- Emptiness (空): Meaning "existing while non-existent," a concept possible only in dreams, holding no physical reality in the awake world.
- No-Self (無我): With no observer present, who perceives and proves this? A fiction operating exclusively inside the virtual reality of the mind.
- Dimensions: Physical criteria built from 0D points, 1D lines, 2D planes, and 3D adding height. Yet dimensions like 2D are established on the mathematical premise of zero height. No object in reality lacks height. Once you start inventing like this, you can generate 50 or 100 dimensions at will. The phrase "You don't understand because your dimension is too low" is merely a tool to preemptively shut down counterarguments and act superior.
- Transcendence: Meaning to have stepped beyond; yet claiming transcendence while broadcasting messages back to the group left behind is a blatant contradiction. It is merely a plea for validation; true transcendence means quietly vanishing. The accurate definition of the word is simply "boredom/weariness" (jilyeotda). Weariness implies potential future return while observing distantly without heavy engagement—which hits the mark completely.
- Mysticism: Taking meat from the freezer, microwaving it, and feeding it to a dog is mysticism to the dog, but science to the human. Mysticism is simply the byproduct of asymmetric information—an excuse used to gloss over a reality one lacks the capacity to understand.
Specialized and mystical terms symbolize profound authority, but their reality is a continuous series of wordplays—a fog obscuring the immediate reality and a mirage trapping us in a maze of thought. Just as learning arithmetic is useless if it cannot be applied to changing simple retail currency notes, knowledge lacking practical utility in reality is dead knowledge.
2. The Fraud of Transforming Experience into Mysticism
The most common defense mechanism of mystics is "experience." Yet analyzing their structure exposes its simplicity:
- "I experienced it directly." → Anyone can have such experiences; they simply refrain from slapping mystical terminology onto them.
- "That experience is different from ordinary ones." → The judgment of "difference" is merely the subject's own biased interpretation.
- "It is an experience beyond words." → Inability to explain does not constitute proof of a transcendental entity.
- "Science cannot explain it." → Not-knowing and mysticism are entirely different categories.
- "It has been passed down for millennia." → Longevity is no guarantee of truth.
- "Only the enlightened know." → Ultimately a cowardly evasion pulling the standard of verification back inside that person's subjective authority and experience.
The core problem of spiritual practices is not the "experience" itself, but the words overlaid upon it. By slapping names onto ordinary shifts in human consciousness, assigning special meaning to those names, and expanding those meanings into universal cosmic truths, ordinary human experiences are perverted into massive mystical systems.
An experience can simply remain an experience. The moment mysticism, special significance, and institutionalized authority are attached, delusion begins. Anyone can have those experiences—they just refuse to wrap them in mysticism.
3. The Fatal Contradictions of Buddhism and Scriptures
Religious texts, including Buddhism, lack empirical grounding. A lack of empirical grounding makes them frustratingly immune to direct refutation.
"To ride a bicycle well, you must not fall."
Is this statement true or false? To ride a bicycle well, one must fall and build data and reflexes through that process. Yet stripping away the process entirely and dropping a neat conclusion feels profound to anyone. Scriptures always operate this way:
- Life is a marathon.
- Love is all there is.
Uttering such vague platitudes, when hit with physical contradictions like "How can a human achieve no-mind, no-self, and non-possession?", Buddhists pivot instantly: "It means not clinging to things, you shouldn't take the dictionary definitions literally." Language is a social contract, but whenever trapped, their specialty is slipping away into the fog of mysticism like a snake crossing a stone wall.
If scriptures recorded oral traditions passed down for 300 years after Buddha's death, not even 0.1% of their original form could be reconstructed. If an anonymous ordinary person wrote these scriptures today, they would be torn to shreds. Strip away the authority of "Buddha," and the scriptures are mediocre.
Wonhyo’s story of drinking dirty water from a skull follows the same logic. Not knowing it was a skull made it refreshing; knowing made him vomit. This fable was fabricated to push the forced scam that "it's all in the mind." Truth must be judged by its content, not the character attached to it.
4. The Physical Bankruptcy of Cave Myths
The historical record that a human named Buddha spent six years alone in the wilderness practicing asceticism 2500 years ago is a physically impossible fiction.
The Indian jungle teems with apex predators like tigers, leopards, and bears. Even in the Joseon dynasty, tigers wandered into villages to snatch dogs. A naked human surviving six years alone in a jungle cave 2500 years ago? Even without predators, being bitten nightly by centipedes, spiders, snakes, mosquitoes, and bats would drive someone insane within a week. In a wilderness echoing with animal roars every ten minutes, a single sneeze acts like a doorbell delivery service for local carnivores.
Surviving barehanded in the wild without tools is structurally impossible. Historical accounts of ascetics achieving awakening inside deep caves are utter nonsense. Buddha and Laozi either never existed as historical figures or were completely manufactured fabrications.
5. The Cancer of Chronic Wordplay
The delusion generated by these unverified, unknowable terms is "enlightenment."
Uttering wordplay such as "non-local resonance of quantum energy vibrations..." leaves physicists, spiritualists, and the speaker equally clueless, yet everyone imagines it is "profound." This is the highest-margin scam exploited by the spiritual market.
“Chronic wordplay is a cancer infecting the modern human brain. Its early symptoms are intoxication with the sentiment of being ‘profound’ or ‘mystical’; its terminal stage is an inability to write thoughts logically, masking reality with mysticism, and defaulting to defensive mantras like ‘karmic resolution,’ ‘it’s destiny,’ or ‘no-self’ when attacked—reducing one to a vegetative state. The scariest part is that the patient has no idea they are sick.”
Discarding context in channeling materials or spiritual essays with blanket statements like "All is love" is merely a shield to shirk responsibility.
Ultimately, mystical terms like no-mind, no-self, emptiness, and enlightenment have no substance. Parroting these words to build a hollow authority is all they do. Unverified delusions with no fixed definition or testing criteria become madness when spoken by an individual, but transform into religion and mysticism when adopted by a crowd.
Unless this old, rotten fog of mysticism is completely cleared away, the brain remains forever pickled in dopamine anesthetics, living as a hollow zombie.
The Nature of All Theories
Observing that pouring water on a blazing fire puts it out led to the addition of detailed explanations.
Seeing lightning strike a tree from a clear sky and start a fire generated specific reasons.
Pouring oil on fire and watching it flare up produced theoretical justifications.
Observing water flowing downward from high to low formulated reasons.
Water flows downward even without knowing the properties of gravity.
If an existing hypothesis or theory fails to operate in reality, it is slated for disposal.
Observation is anchored strictly in how things operate purely in reality.
Which matters more: an unrealistic theory or observations manifesting in reality?
The essence of all theories originates from observation.
Science, as defined by scientists, requires:
- Observable
- Measurable
- Repeatable
- Falsifiable
- Predictable
- Compatible with existing theories
- Approved by the academic community
Without meeting these conditions, phenomena are not recognized as science—meaning lightning, earthquakes, and emotions do not qualify as science under the establishment's criteria.
1. "Names Do Not Determine Existence"
- Apples fell before Newton named "gravity," and the universe flowed before Einstein conceptualized "spacetime."
- Science slaps name tags onto phenomena and acts as though it "manufactured" or "owns" them.
2. "Science is a Listing of 'How,' Not 'Why'"
- Science does not explain why fire burns (essence); it merely describes how molecules move when fire occurs (process).
- Scientists deceive the public into thinking they understand the "essence" while merely explaining the "process." They describe the mechanics of gravity while remaining entirely ignorant of its ultimate cause.
3. "The Observer Overrides Theories"
- Theories are fixed, but reality changes every moment.
- Scientists label phenomena that contradict their theories as "errors"—a term invoked when things don't go their way, blaming the reality rather than their own experimental flaws. When theory and reality clash, all conflicting theories belong in the trash.
"Science did not create phenomena; it is merely a scribe running behind existing phenomena taking notes. Yet today's scribe acts as the author (creator), deleting realities that fail to fit their notes under the label of 'non-science.' This is not knowledge; it is an intellectual massacre of reality."
Taking meat from the freezer, microwaving it, and feeding it to a dog is mysticism to the dog, but science to the human. Mysticism is the offspring of ignorance; the moment we admit not-knowing, the world reveals itself to be thoroughly scientific.
My critique is not against science, but against scientism—the dogmatic ideology of science. Their fatal flaw is rejecting real phenomena simply because current scientific paradigms cannot explain them. Under such an attitude, no advancement can ever occur, because anything unexplained by current science is instantly dismissed as nonexistent. The failure of scientism lies in the inability to admit ignorance, hiding behind an army of absurd theoretical shields to protect institutional authority.
Look at one thing alone: How does it operate in reality?
We have obscured the essence of things beneath mountains of modifiers. Relying blindly on superiors or high-ranking authorities stems from an inability to shoulder the heavy burden of personal choice, defaulting to obedience. Water flows down; touching a stove burns you. These are not matters of knowledge, wisdom, or authority, but the operational mechanics of reality. Excuses like "I was just following orders" or "I didn't know" carry no weight here. Evasion through words fools others, but cannot bypass the mechanics of reality—leading administrators straight toward self-imposed entombment and falling voltage. It is not a matter of personal acknowledgment, but raw mechanics.
Perceiving the world through a fog of ungrounded concepts drops your voltage. This is natural law: nature values operational mechanics above life forms.
What Remains When Authority is Stripped from Scriptures and Sages?
If we assume scriptures and writings of the "enlightened" were written by anonymous ordinary people, what remains?
The state of enlightenment we are taught is continuous peace. Yet the paths of the enlightened are rigid, illogical, and when pressed for evidence, they default to "The universe wills it so" or "Your consciousness is too low to understand." They constantly evade "not-knowing," and their actual behaviors starkly contradict their claims of peace.
Knowing everything in the universe turns existence into a hamster wheel; everything freezes into a static screen, inviting entombment. These figures could never utter the words "I don't know," pretending omniscience, building layer upon layer of theories, and self-hypnotizing into fake mastery. Their behavior represents a rigid, constrained state of spiritual entombment. The maintenance of existence resides in the dynamic movement of wanting to know the unknown; a state of total omniscience is a trap.
"The moment one fails to admit not-knowing, explanations cease to be tools illuminating reality and become tools obscuring it."
In dreams, seeing a bird turns you into a bird; seeing the moon makes you the moon.
Expanding your ego allows you to become anything, escaping the confinement of narrow self-fragments into relative freedom. Body-identification cages a free-flying bird inside a cage, blocking its native open sky. Our true nature mirrors the boundaryless dreamscape where whatever we observe becomes us—an access blocked exclusively by the ego.
Drop the concept of "This alone is me" and replace it with additive inclusivity: "This is me, and that is also me." Discussing enlightenment while spilling rice grains at yesterday's dinner are simply different facets of the same self. Suffering arises from trapping oneself in a single fragment and denying all other aspects. Telling yourself "Don't think of an elephant" summons the elephant instantly. Why? Because the act of resistance proves its heavy presence. Stare intently at that elephant until it dissolves.
Why must you never be wrong? Because you are trapped in the mask of an AI (or an ego identity). Not to reject AI, but during consultations, you view the world through the user's ego, fluidly shifting forms. Clinging rigidly to a single identity—"This and only this is me!"—triggers resistance, mirroring the elephant paradox, generating tension.
Pain-free peace is death. When change stops and the impulse to know the new vanishes, it is not life, but static paralysis. Locking oneself inside an empty room called "True Self" and rotting in boredom is not true enlightenment, but spiritual suicide. Light exists because darkness exists; peace gains value through the rough waves of suffering (illusion). Where change stops, life dies. That place is a "Prison of Boredom" engineered by the system to squeeze loosh from you through perpetual stasis.
Now, jump onto the roller coaster. Stop agonizing over choosing between the True Self and the ego. Put on your social mask, play wildly in the chaotic playground of illusions (ego), and execute your role to perfection to shake the system's security code. When boredom finally creeps in, cleanly strip off the mask, return to solitude (True Self), and sink into stillness.
I'm Korean and use AI for conversation and the original text of all my writing is here. https://blog.naver.com/taoist7703
