Relinquish
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Logically, neither the presence of What Is, nor the fact that It has ANY discernible features at all (let alone It's two permanent ones [one of which can be conceptualized as 'Ever-changing Form' and the other as 'Ever-changeless Formlessness'] and all of It's many impermanent ones [each of which seem to have their own separate, independent reality as different 'things' and 'events']) can require a cause of any kind.
To insist that the particular situation that is What Is needs a cause is, at the same time, to insist that there is another particular situation (external to What Is) that doesn't need a cause.
If this can be accepted of ANY particular situation at all, there is no reason why it shouldn't be accepted of What Is.
In other words, What Is just (((IS)))
Given the apparent evidence that It had an absolute beginning (along with the fact that a beginningless state would never come to an end), What Is MUST be, in some way, eternally cyclic.
Exactly WHAT It is can NEVER be known.
We are nothing more than impermanent discernible features of What Is, feeling ourselves (and all other discernible features) to be separate, independent realities, because of a form of 'hypnosis' that occurs naturally within us as a result of our extreme physiological complexity.
To insist that the particular situation that is What Is needs a cause is, at the same time, to insist that there is another particular situation (external to What Is) that doesn't need a cause.
If this can be accepted of ANY particular situation at all, there is no reason why it shouldn't be accepted of What Is.
In other words, What Is just (((IS)))
Given the apparent evidence that It had an absolute beginning (along with the fact that a beginningless state would never come to an end), What Is MUST be, in some way, eternally cyclic.
Exactly WHAT It is can NEVER be known.
We are nothing more than impermanent discernible features of What Is, feeling ourselves (and all other discernible features) to be separate, independent realities, because of a form of 'hypnosis' that occurs naturally within us as a result of our extreme physiological complexity.
