Non-conceptually, what is?
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2018 5:41 am
This question, if used correctly, is a way to DIRECTLY experience Reality Itself.
To use it correctly is to ask it without wanting to arrive at an answer of any kind.
Non-conceptually, what is?
Just look....
The following is a conceptual translation of what I experience when I use this question in the way it is intended to be used;
In truth, ALL 'things' and 'events' (including 'ourselves') can be justifiably regarded as 'impermanent discernable features' of Reality Itself.
Naturally, the totality of these impermanent discernable features spend their entire existence within the boundaries of one of Reality's two 'permanent discernable features'; the 'Everything' (which, as a whole, can be described as an 'ever-changing coherent asymmetry').
The so-called 'space' that apparently encompasses the 'Everything' is Reality's other permanent discernable feature; the 'Nothing' (which is itself absolutely changeless, structureless and un-encompassed).
If the 'ceaseless change' that is the 'Everything' had an absolute beginning, that beginning would also be the ending of a prior 'beginningless absence of change'. If it had an absolute ending, that ending would also be the beginning of a subsequent 'endless absence of change'. Logically, such a situation is an absolute impossibility.
Therefore (given the fact that the 'Everything' DID evidently have a beginning), this ceaseless change MUST be eternally cyclic.
If the discernable features of Reality Itself (both permanent and impermanent) COULD have been different, they WOULD have been different.
Because there is no way to know why they COULDN'T have been different, there is no way to know why they are as they are.
Likewise, the actual reason WHY Reality Itself has any discernable features at all (some of which apparently have the capacity to 'experience' themselves and their surroundings) is absolutely unknowable.
Evidently, some of the 'conscious' impermanent discernible features are of such an extreme level of physical complexity that they have the natural capacity to become 'hypnotized' by their surroundings.
This hypnosis makes it SEEM to these extremely complex 'conscious features' (or in other words, 'intelligent body/mind life-forms') that each of the impermanent discernable features (including themselves) are in fact 'solely self-inclusive' (which is to say, that they are all fundamentally existing different 'things' and 'events' that each have their own separate, independent nature), and that they themselves each have their own personal consciousness and are the autonomous originators of their own particular movements.
As such, the 'hypnotized conscious features' perceive Reality to be a vast, confusingly fragmented and threatening situation, and so perceive themselves to be isolated and vulnerable individuals. This is the illusion of multiplicity, seperateness and duality. The hypnosis it arises from is the fundamental basis of ALL suffering.
Sometimes, this hypnosis is unexplainably woken up from. This waking up is the very REALIZATION that ALL so-called 'things' and 'events' (including 'ourselves') are NEVER anything other than impermanent discernable features of Reality Itself. When this happens, the illusion that one has ever been (or will ever be) an independently existing individual naturally dissolves, as do the feelings of isolation and vulnerability that are inherently associated with this illusion.
It's simply seen that, in truth, there is ONLY EVER the Absolute Mystery that is 'Reality-being-Itself'....
But don't just take my word for it. Ask the question for yourself;
Non-conceptually, what is?
Perhaps YOU might like to share here with us a conceptual translation of what you experience with the use of this question.
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To use it correctly is to ask it without wanting to arrive at an answer of any kind.
Non-conceptually, what is?
Just look....
The following is a conceptual translation of what I experience when I use this question in the way it is intended to be used;
In truth, ALL 'things' and 'events' (including 'ourselves') can be justifiably regarded as 'impermanent discernable features' of Reality Itself.
Naturally, the totality of these impermanent discernable features spend their entire existence within the boundaries of one of Reality's two 'permanent discernable features'; the 'Everything' (which, as a whole, can be described as an 'ever-changing coherent asymmetry').
The so-called 'space' that apparently encompasses the 'Everything' is Reality's other permanent discernable feature; the 'Nothing' (which is itself absolutely changeless, structureless and un-encompassed).
If the 'ceaseless change' that is the 'Everything' had an absolute beginning, that beginning would also be the ending of a prior 'beginningless absence of change'. If it had an absolute ending, that ending would also be the beginning of a subsequent 'endless absence of change'. Logically, such a situation is an absolute impossibility.
Therefore (given the fact that the 'Everything' DID evidently have a beginning), this ceaseless change MUST be eternally cyclic.
If the discernable features of Reality Itself (both permanent and impermanent) COULD have been different, they WOULD have been different.
Because there is no way to know why they COULDN'T have been different, there is no way to know why they are as they are.
Likewise, the actual reason WHY Reality Itself has any discernable features at all (some of which apparently have the capacity to 'experience' themselves and their surroundings) is absolutely unknowable.
Evidently, some of the 'conscious' impermanent discernible features are of such an extreme level of physical complexity that they have the natural capacity to become 'hypnotized' by their surroundings.
This hypnosis makes it SEEM to these extremely complex 'conscious features' (or in other words, 'intelligent body/mind life-forms') that each of the impermanent discernable features (including themselves) are in fact 'solely self-inclusive' (which is to say, that they are all fundamentally existing different 'things' and 'events' that each have their own separate, independent nature), and that they themselves each have their own personal consciousness and are the autonomous originators of their own particular movements.
As such, the 'hypnotized conscious features' perceive Reality to be a vast, confusingly fragmented and threatening situation, and so perceive themselves to be isolated and vulnerable individuals. This is the illusion of multiplicity, seperateness and duality. The hypnosis it arises from is the fundamental basis of ALL suffering.
Sometimes, this hypnosis is unexplainably woken up from. This waking up is the very REALIZATION that ALL so-called 'things' and 'events' (including 'ourselves') are NEVER anything other than impermanent discernable features of Reality Itself. When this happens, the illusion that one has ever been (or will ever be) an independently existing individual naturally dissolves, as do the feelings of isolation and vulnerability that are inherently associated with this illusion.
It's simply seen that, in truth, there is ONLY EVER the Absolute Mystery that is 'Reality-being-Itself'....
But don't just take my word for it. Ask the question for yourself;
Non-conceptually, what is?
Perhaps YOU might like to share here with us a conceptual translation of what you experience with the use of this question.
☺
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