Thank you for this article. After I finished reading, I contemplated what it spoke to me. I realized it points me to my present experience, which, like all of life, is impossible once examined closely. If everything arises within and between relationships, what actually exists, if anything?
When I connect with my present experience, with it's visual scene (a keyboard, a laptop monitor, my living room, etc), the physical sensations, the sounds, smells, thoughts I have, emotions that arise, I realize that experiences seem impossible. When do they begin? When do they end? What are they? As we inquire into them, they disappear. So where and how do they exist?
It should be impossible that anything exists, but I think you and I can agree that it does...or does it? I prefer to walk through life in the space between and around existence and non-existence, which I think is similar to what you are pointing to in your article, coming closer and closer to the reality of experience in every moment.
Thank you for this inquiry, it brings me to a place I love, delighting once again in the miracle of life.
Thank you for this article. After I finished reading, I contemplated what it spoke to me. I realized it points me to my present experience, which, like all of life, is impossible once examined closely. If everything arises within and between relationships, what actually exists, if anything?
When I connect with my present experience, with it's visual scene (a keyboard, a laptop monitor, my living room, etc), the physical sensations, the sounds, smells, thoughts I have, emotions that arise, I realize that experiences seem impossible. When do they begin? When do they end? What are they? As we inquire into them, they disappear. So where and how do they exist?
The entire universe is like that. The coastline paradox points to this (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-its-impossible-to-know-a-coastlines-true-length).
It should be impossible that anything exists, but I think you and I can agree that it does...or does it? I prefer to walk through life in the space between and around existence and non-existence, which I think is similar to what you are pointing to in your article, coming closer and closer to the reality of experience in every moment.
Thank you for this inquiry, it brings me to a place I love, delighting once again in the miracle of life.
Really enjoyed that Anna-Marie