The Way is not in the Words

Words can never placate the egoic mind.  Even the right words on occasion will still set it ablaze.  Indifferent words may appear to temporarily appease, and negative words might be construed as inconsequential in the moment.

Words are spoken.  Emotions arise.  The mistake is to imbue casual qualities.  Because if you believe it is the hearing of words that can heal you, you will be forever searching for someone to speak unto you the magic spell.

Pain arises.  Anger arises.  Joy arises.  Happiness arises.  Equanimity exists in the gap in-between all that arises and must fade away.

Seek silence, not soliloquy.  Do not invest so much story in the ‘self’.  No one can experience what it is you perceive in the body/mind.  So do not waste effort repeating the samsaric suffering to another sentient being.

And if you are fortunate to happen upon a buddha on your footpath … Listen with your heart.  Not for answers or an elixir.  But the vibration of the word spoken that strikes a chord in your Being.  When you feel this resonance, there will be no need for any further conversation.