“And this is not an anti intellectual attitude. The ordinary simple person is just as bamboozled by thinking. As a university professor, you can think intellectually in a no think way. That's the art. It doesn't mean not to any thoughts at all. It means not to be fooled by thoughts, not to be hypnotized by the forms of speech and images that we have for the world, not to be hypnotized by them into thinking that that is the way the world really is. So if I say this is a fan, it isn't to begin with fan is a noise and this doesn't make the noise fan but just whoosh. But it can be many other things than a fan. It could be a backscratcher, very well, all sorts of things. Don't let words limit the possibilities of life. Actually this fan has an inscription on it written by a Zen master who is a hundred years old and it says: I don't understand, I don't know anything about it.”

From: The World As Just So