When we stay on the surface level of existence, life becomes conceptual and although we all experience life in the human form, it is why it’s seen differently by everyone, except by those who don’t see it through a concept, this state is of emptiness which needs no concept, yet existence still is. Everything is a constellation of parts that make up the whole, so nothing is truly what a concept makes it out to be because it’s only seen and categorized as the whole. When one looks at a tree and applies the concept “tree” the surface parts the trunk, limbs, branches, and leaves meld into one and the true nature of the tree is lost. If you can see this with the tree, you can see it with everything, including yourself. Without a concept of you where is the you and that’s just the surface you I’m asking about, most don’t even think about what parts of you are on the inside.
There is much freedom in seeing this because it allows for the emptiness of all things to be revealed. And when one sees there’s nothing to hold on to no matter what, one is free. You give something that keeps track of time a concept that it’s a watch, there are so many parts to it, but which part is truly the watch. Concepts will keep you marred in ignorance because they will block out seeing the true nature of emptiness in all things, you will only see the whole. When this happens one can only see and attach to what’s on the surface and therein lies the root to all suffering. It’s in letting go of surface concepts that one will see there are many parts to the whole which when seen reveals the emptiness of all things.
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