Existence is responsible for its own appearance is the last sentence of the Commentary for our set exercise of ‘Lineage of Appearances’ (KTS page 240). Nothing happens inside me when I read this sentence: I don’t get it. It seems to me to be a disconnected leap from the previous statements. Can someone put it another way or explain it to me to illuminate its meaning? I think I’m also asking – what are the implications of this sentence? It’s obviously important, placed where it is at the end of the section by way of a summary of what precedes it.
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Taking a non-authoritative stab at this using a space/time metaphor, perhaps Rinpoche is suggesting at a certain level of ‘present experience’, below or prior to the structuring of discursive thought, before the structuring of mental comparisons, and assigning of qualities within the field, perhaps close to the level of Witness, as appearance arises so does a witness. As form appears so does the space within which it appears, and since this arising is in mental space and not solid, both the arising and the space are space.
Sky blue , and red apple are all space arisings that exist because humans sense in certain ways, and exist because we make meaning in a particular ways. “If we go deeper, we discover ‘space’ as what projects appearance”, Rinpoche says. As humans we are the space in which appearance arises…and we are the maker of meaning. We are existence observing and declaring what exists.
David
Thank you, David.
This is very clear and very helpful.