We could say
that the "Total Appearing"
is Real,
but the "appearances" (apparent objects)
as such, are not.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Followers
Blog Archive
-
▼
2010
(200)
-
▼
October
(16)
- Now Playing
- a thorn
- ob-ject, a thing thrown or placed
- beyond knowledge and ignorance
- this moment's presence
- the NOW-Awareness
- undivided
- no thing
- Awareness is single, only, and all-inclusive
- awareness/now
- already - always - IS
- there's no time
- exist < L exsistere, to stand out
- Zen and Swordsmanship
- movement/stillness
- is this moment not complete?
-
▼
October
(16)
whoops. Left other comment from wrong account.
ReplyDeleteI'd give this a "like" if it were on facebook.
Sometimes I think, though, that more elaboration would be nice. As in, I'm thinking that by "Total Appearing" you are referring to "the whole" whereas appearances refers to the "cut up" version with names, forms, apparent independent existence.
Yes, or to change metaphors, "Appearing" is the living butterfly; "appearance" is the dead one pinned to its place in a collection.
ReplyDeleteThus the "appearing" is the utter perfection of just what purely is...
ReplyDeleteand the appearances are our conceptual elaborations of the experience... the story line, the ongoing narration?
Hello Vareda!
ReplyDeleteSure, we can say that (as a potentially clarifying pointer, not "THE TRUTH").
We can make the same notional distinction between the 'saying' and 'what' is said.
But of course, words can only go so far.
Hola Tom
ReplyDeleteYes! "THE TRUTH" is ultimately just another reified concept, we mistake for the 'Real' in the conundrum of the conceptual mind.
Thank you!
Vereda
De nada!
ReplyDelete