Words may complicate this simple pointing, but since we have to use them, there must be a way to reduce “noise” in them.
“Noise” in words, in writing, or speaking, is the meaning, interpretation, flavor, and color of the message.
Such “noise” prevents clarity, freshness, originality, and simplicity.
You may say, if words come from nowhere, and have no context of ideas, they can’t be understood.
I question that.
In fact, the opposite is so profound for the writer and the reader, and you may argue it simply because you never tried.
Let me describe to you very simply and directly the principle of ‘writing without knowing’, and how it relates to ‘reading from a white page’,
Once understood, you can try it, test it, and come upon the beauty of it by yourself.
Writing the Now,
Not the description of the Now,
The actuality of it,
Is taking place when the words are read from a white page, an empty space, a state of not knowing.
What guides this writing is a sense of deep authenticity,
It is natural and flowing, when you Are that Now,
And, are you? Are you not?
When the Now writes itself,
It is when you write without knowing, yet not at all in distance from yourself, your heart, your now, your unknown unfoldment which you don’t try to control, direct, reason.
How to try?
Without rules, without a way, without purpose, for no reason at all, let it be,
Find yourself starting the writing from a blank page, inwardly, and see how words complete sentences, and phrases, and chapters,
And the one way to validate that the writing was indeed fresh,
Is to read it and be amazed that even though you just wrote it, you read it as if for the first time.
Because no intention guided your flow, there is also no trace for it,
And you were reading as if from a white page.
You have been introduced to something that is immeasurable, simple, and very precious.
Yet, if you leave it as words, it will stay as words.
Good luck, and I’ll be happy to hear about your experience regardless of the result.