‘Koans’ of appearance: DTS p. 31

Tarthang Tulku, 1994:

The mystery of appearance can be phrased in many ways.

There is the fundamental question of why anything appears at all, rather than nothing.

There is the nature of the mechanism that allows appearing,

as well as the nature of the creative force responsible for setting the mechanism in operation.

There is the conflict between the active and ever shifting arising of appearance on the one hand and the fixed identity of what is and can be known on the other.

 Caroline Sherwood, 2015:

Dancing patterns of ever-changing interactions of space/ time/knowledge, apparently solidifying and dissolving. Pulsing in and out of existence. How can we possibly ever say anything accurate, definitive or final about anything at all?!

Siddhartha Gautama c. 500 B.C.:

Sorry to refer to Shakyamuni Buddha here (He does keep popping up in our discussions!), but observation does seem to reveal the absolute centrality of his statement of impermanence (anicca) being fundamental to existence, so profound as to challenge the existence of existence at all: how wondrous to have this confirmed yet again two and a half thousand years later… via a TSK investigation into the field communiqué!

Question:

Are there other ‘fields’ into whose ‘communiqués’ ‘we’ can shift??

How ‘far’ does ‘the field’ extend?

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1 Response to ‘Koans’ of appearance: DTS p. 31

  1. Soudabeh says:

    Thank you Caroline for your sharing. I also found the following sentence so profoundly true and amazing …
    “There is the conflict between the active and ever shifting arising of appearance on the one hand and the fixed identity of what is and can be known on the other.”

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