Koan-stories and questions are - like the one hand clapping - removed from context. Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world:Ī flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
Reality (or what we perceive as such) is like a set of mirrors reflecting images without anything actually there to be reflected other than the reflections of other mirrors. There is nothing graspable at the root of it, or at the end of it, or in it, or behind it. Phenomena appear and disappear only in the context of other phenomena, which only appear and disappear in the context of other phenomena, which only appear and disappear in the context of other phenomena, which only appear and disappear in the context of other phenomena etc. It says there are no graspable “things” but there are ungraspable “processes” only. In my understanding the Buddhist idea of codependent arising appears to take a position on this. Do we really know what matter is or time or consciousness? Are they graspable things or ungraspable processes? Some phenomena are not graspable “things” but they are ungraspable “processes”.Īs far as I can tell, the basic building blocks of the world we perceive are not fully understood. The clapping hand cannot be a clapping hand when the other hand isn’t joining. A rainbow cannot exist independently from the rain or the sunlight. The chair will be the chair and I will be me.īut there are exceptions. Our intuition says things exist when the context is removed or altered.
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