Most every word and name that comes to my mind leaves its primary origin behind. Examining them reveals deeper underlying origins and causes. This is why I’ve come to regard words and names as symptoms of underlying causes. Alas there is an unintended consequence of using such a labeling system. Slapping a word or name upon a phenomenon – labeling it – makes it easier to ignore the ‘big picture’ underpinnings of its reality. The narrower we focus on a label, the more we take it at face value. The mind digs no further into deeper causes and so the ‘big picture’ eludes us. No wonder the Tao Te Ching has a fundamental problem with words and names! Ironically, they blind the mind’s eye by allowing it to identify what it sees. Blind, we continually stub our toes and our dis-ease persists.