05-30-2010, 12:00 AM
yeah, dependent origination is powerful stuff.
no beginnings, no endings, so where is the end of an object and the beginning of another? The glass holds water, so where the water ends the glass begins, and the table the glass is sitting on is where the glass ends and the table begins, and the floor the table is placed on is where the table ends and the floor begins. So this can be seen and said these objects exist separately...but none of these objects can be taken away to a void-like "place" where each object is the only object in existence. All objects are "here" simultaneously, together. The water may evaporate, the glass become sand, the table ash, the floor earth, but all still "here" together.
no beginnings, no endings, so where is the end of an object and the beginning of another? The glass holds water, so where the water ends the glass begins, and the table the glass is sitting on is where the glass ends and the table begins, and the floor the table is placed on is where the table ends and the floor begins. So this can be seen and said these objects exist separately...but none of these objects can be taken away to a void-like "place" where each object is the only object in existence. All objects are "here" simultaneously, together. The water may evaporate, the glass become sand, the table ash, the floor earth, but all still "here" together.