Nearly lunch time. Another bus passes outside the window, and a green VW Polo parks beside the linden tree. Fewer and fewer leaves are clinging to its tangle of limbs. The cat snores curled by the radiator.
A colleague asks at work yesterday whether there is anything that is not conditioned.
I wait, let him answer for himself. He already knows or he wouldn’t ask.
Nothing? Yes.
« Then we’re all fucked, » he says, and walks away.
Truly, and that’s the good news: No-thing is the beauty of how things real-ly are not.
That is: Nothing is here like we think it is; everything is here as it is.
and empathy?
what about intuïtion?
what is the relationship between intuîtion and conditioning?
the 3 little lightpink flowers beside me are lightpink
not that they are realy "lightpink"
they are just lightpink
they look like little butterflys
they are growing in gracious curves towards the light
the leaves are green and have the shape of little hearts
we name them "little cyclamen"
not that you can experience them trough the computer though…
On the other hand I feel like i would like an olive now…
The green olives with garlic and lemon are succulent at the vegetable stand in the rue Daguerre.
The reflexion on it makes it solid ofcourse – and so conditioned –
yeah-
not good in wordgames
why are we writing about it anyway?
When we see what is before us, full and complete, what we see is interdependence and impermanence. And "seeing" thus is also impermanent. The one seeing and what is seen are not two.
We can accept that this is so. And we may believe that to "see" in such a way is to be enlightened. How funny that we then expect this view to be fixed!
When you can see things like in:
That which is before you is it, in all its fullness, utterly complete.
— Huang Po
This is conditioned to for you?