You are and you are not…
If I have two apples and I buy two more, I now have four apples. This is a quantifiable fact with a measurable and repeatable result…
…As long as we agree to look through a specific lens.
And there’s the catch.
At a subatomic level, the apple’s essence ceases to be. You can’t even be sure what you’re observing will be what and where you think it is. The very essence of an apple can’t be pointed to with any sort of predictability or accuracy.
Now, is it necessary to look at all things at a subatomic level? No, but it’s equally silly to ignore that the very essence of everything is not quantifiable.
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.”
~Albert Einstein
There’s a tale told in Zen:
Before enlightenment, mountain is the mountain and water is the water; in enlightenment, mountain is not the mountain and water is not the water; after enlightenment, a mountain is really the mountain and water is really the water.
This is the complexity of a reality, where we encounter dualism and singularity simultaneously. This is what I’d refer to as oneness. A notion which simultaneously engages the complexity of dualism and the simplicity of singularity.
So what’s the point of this rambling?
In my last blog, I attempted to introduce the true self.
It’s an important realization.
But there is a further complexity.
That of your subjective material self.
Which is also true.
Your externalized projections are true.
Your ego is a thing.
The way I perceive you is true.
And the way you perceive me is true.
All the while, our egoic perception remains not true and no-thing.
Our understanding of our no-thing-ness may seem relatively useless in our day to day lives. You don’t need to operate from the standpoint that nothing around you exists. This isn’t the point. The point is understanding that there is no separation between you and what you desire or despise. This is a fundamental shift. This leaves you understanding that you are whole and complete.
It leaves you understanding that there is no, “out there.”
It leaves you understanding that there is no “other” to blame or become.
I’d argue that this is the single most important realization a human being can make.
So, that’s it.
But that’s a big thing, isn’t it?
It changes everything.
So, relish in your duality perception.
Because duality does exist.
But so does singularity.
So does oneness.
That also exists…
Simultaneously.
You are and you are not.
