Seda
Cruz Rincon
Eternity Seas’ Reality
End of the Pier
Azul en Azul
As above, so below.
That perfected, perfectly so,
Its parts and it whole.
Tiano y Flor
[Buddy] Free[s] Guy
From Free Guy (film, 2021)
GUY: Buddy, what would you do if you found out that you weren’t real? … BUDDY: I say, okay, so what if I’m not real? GUY: I’m sorry. “So what?” BUDDY: Yeah. So what? Guy: (SCOFFING) But if you’re not real, doesn’t that mean that nothing you do matters? BUDDY: What does that mean? Look, brother, I am sitting here with my best friend, trying to help him get through a tough time. Right? And even if I’m not real, this moment is. Right here, right now. This moment is real. I mean, what’s more real than a person tryin’ to help someone they love? Now, if that’s not real, I don’t know what is.
Uncertainly Certain
“Teacher, you say, “What is to one may not be to another, and what is not to one may be to another.” Could you elaborate on the meaning of this?”
“All things are inherently empty, dependent on conditioning, and interdependently conceptualized. Thus there is subjective variance in conceptual existence of a thing, as all things are of parts. If you were to add water one drop at a time to an empty glass, when would it be considered full? When an observer recognizes it as full.”
The student sat in reflection, after some time he replies,
“In sea of thoughts
my mind swims.
Not any one of them,
Nor any me.
But what you see.”
“Good. Good. Very good.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Adagio from Sakamoto’s album “Beauty”
Ensō
“Teacher, you say, “Only that without beginning has no end, and only that without end has no beginning.” What, if anything, is without beginning? What, if anything, is without end?”
“If the continuum of space had an initial instant, it would have arisen from no cause or from cause not substantially commensurate with its nature. Both possibilities are contrary to and thereby negated by the law of cause and effect, thus the continuum must have no beginning.”
“Similarly, if the mind continuum had an initial instant, it would have arisen from no cause or from cause not substantially commensurate with its nature. Both possibilities are contrary to and thereby negated by the law of cause and effect, thus the continuum must have no beginning.”
Upon reflection the student then replies, “Space gives rise to space as mind gives rise to mind, without beginning, without end.”
“Good. Good. Very good.