relinquish
26-08-2018, 07:38 AM
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 boundary of one of Reality's two 'permanent discernable features'; the 'Everything' (which, as a whole, can be described as an 'ever-changing structured 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, the ceaseless change that is the 'Everything' MUST be eternally cyclic.
If these discernable features (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' discernable 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 discernable features (including themselves) are in fact 'solely self-inclusive forms' (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 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. When this happens, the feeling of isolation and vulnerability naturally dissolves, because it is realized that there never actually was any independently existing 'self' there to be isolated or vulnerable (or anything else) in the first place.
It's simply seen that, in truth, there is ONLY the Absolute Mystery that is 'Reality-being-Itself'.
Naturally, the totality of these impermanent discernable features spend their entire existence within the boundary of one of Reality's two 'permanent discernable features'; the 'Everything' (which, as a whole, can be described as an 'ever-changing structured 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, the ceaseless change that is the 'Everything' MUST be eternally cyclic.
If these discernable features (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' discernable 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 discernable features (including themselves) are in fact 'solely self-inclusive forms' (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 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. When this happens, the feeling of isolation and vulnerability naturally dissolves, because it is realized that there never actually was any independently existing 'self' there to be isolated or vulnerable (or anything else) in the first place.
It's simply seen that, in truth, there is ONLY the Absolute Mystery that is 'Reality-being-Itself'.