Think of this soccer tournament. Beyond the being and doing of boys kicking a ball on a field, it is all a story. Winners, losers, championships—these are all based on categories, labels, patterns. Language and thought provide the tools to generate these stories. Our whole lives, even our very sense of self, might be thought of in the same way as this soccer game. The abstract stories themselves aren't the problem, but becoming lost in them creates the problem. Our suffering comes from getting swept up in these stories and forgetting that they are not themselves reality.
