When you see the Buddha , kill him
That's a Zen proverb to shock-illustrate Zen Buddhism's core tenet that life should be lived in the moment and separate from words and concepts about reality. 'Buddha' the word is not the same as the Buddha himself - and even the Buddha himself is irrelevant to your own life's realization or nirvana.
Jargon is jargon only when it is used as jargon. Nine times out of ten, the language itself usefully conveys the meaning. It's only how we then abuse it that makes it jargon - that killer of clarity and the grand wig on the bald head of non-clarity.
Man, there ought to be a law !
Or at least a university course or an office training module or something like that. Titles anyone ? 'Basic Jargon Buster' , 'Advanced Jargon Buster', 'JarGONE : Jargon-Free in Five Days', etc etc ?
(You may have guessed where this post is coming from. Yep, I was subjected to some recently . In buckets. Ugh. ;) )
And fittingly concluding this post with a link to its Zen referencing opening, here's a very interesting piece about how origami is driving cutting edge technology (read here)
(The header image is my own photograph of rural Assam,the Indian state I am from)
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