Originally posted by jagar:
Thanks Ros, I enjoyed that.
There was an famous English theatre producer called Terence James Gray who became well known later in his life under the pen name Wei Wu Wei. I’m mentioning him because there’s a quote of his that sums up perfectly the question of the perceiver and the percieved. His books are great by the way.
“Why are you unhappy?
Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one.”
― Wei Wu Wei
One could brush that aside quickly and say it’s not true, but if we really look deeply and honestly, it’s totally accurate. That 99.9 percent can never say what this is, it’s always just going to be about me and my preferences, it can never have anything to do with what’s actually happening. What’s actually happening doesn’t have a meaning, meaning has to be in the 99.9 percent. Of course if you were in the lucky bunch, you could change wei wu wei’s quote and ask why are you happy instead of unhappy and the answer would be exactly the same because happiness and unhappiness are the same as right and wrong and good and bad, these are all dualistic concepts invented by the 99.9 percent and wholly dependent on its preferences.
What’s left when nothing’s about me then? How about everything, exactly as it is, it’s never changed, the only thing that moves is mind and it’s moving around a center that is entirely a construct. |
YES .. !! .. :) |
