The Impersonal Duty to Speak Truth

There's this innate felt knowing that you've come into something truthful. But the articulation is the goal for poets or philosophers, but it's not easy to get close enough. There was a Zen master who said: If I speak, I tell a lie. But if I remain silent, I'm a coward. And so why a coward because you have to. Because because you've touched something in yourself that you know is true. That is not just the sum total of your personal mind... You've touched something that's eternal. Right.