On Alan watts' ‘sense of nonsense’

 

Words underlie everything that we think. Perhaps it makes us ask for meaning of life. How? Words are here to help us? Yup perhaps in the sense of survival. The same words distort our understanding of the reality of ourselves. For example, when someone says “see carefully”, we strain our muscles near eyes and see. This straining is a bodily response associated with our language/words. Seeing carefully has nothing to do with straining the muscles around the eye (search for proof). Generalizing, we have come far away from reality because of words. Asking for meaning is the game of our language. That’s all.When you experience an immersive piece of music or dance you don’t ask the meaning of life. That piece is enough. Living in that moment in this world is enough. Why ask the meaning?- (Paraphrased) Alan Watts.

Yes, we understand what watts is conveying. Language is extremely powerful and shapes our  deep subconscious level reality. 

But the problem is this. By this knowledge, can we really escape the trap of our reality built by words? or are we condemned to succumb to it, constantly provoked by the question, what's the meaning of it all?