This is a function of the mind, that keeps the entity ‘on’ for seeking. Once you get to the root of this functioning, you have seen through the whole game running around as separate.
Finiteness is imaginary boundary, that is happening in the sensing, due to change of sensation. So change is noticed, a boundary is noticed, to separate one sensation from another or to separate a ‘change’ of the same type of sensation.
Normally more than one sensation seems to be noticed for a given boundary. Either in colour, shape, feel or hardness, taste, smell etc. Whenever there is a change of each sensation or a combination, an imaginary boundary is drawn and finiteness is assumed. It is actually a need for focus of attention, to understand or make a story around the sensation, that can create a ‘save as’ file for memory, which we call its separate ‘thingness’. Its just a concept or temporary meaning agreed for communication.
The mind also has the capacity, to combine certain boundaries that form a pattern and make a another imaginary boundary, like for a group. This would be given a ‘new’ meaning for purpose of ‘save as’ file into memory.
So separateness and wholeness of certain separate forms, is a preoccupation of the mind. In order to enable the change, to be part of memory, meaning is given to separation, to make it easy, like we give names to files for ‘saving as’ to memory. The folder may be taken when group formation takes place. However, these are purely imaginary or for the ease of memory and does not have separate existences of being separate individual existence of such a separate block that is separated.
Let us take some examples. Let us say, we see a tree. We can ‘feel’ tree as a whole unit, because space divides the tree from the rest. At the point of division, there is a change in the pattern of sensing. The space is softer, light in colour and so on, as compared to the tree. So ‘space is not the tree’ is a meaning for memory. Now within the tree, the leaf is green, softer, shaped smaller, as compared to a twig, and the twig to a branch, branch to a trunk, to the root, fruit, flower etc. Within the flower, there is petals, sepals, stigma, pollen and what not. So the wholeness is the tree, the separation is root, trunk and the rest.
The mind switches over from separation to wholeness of the tree, depending on the ‘present’ story that is needed to be ‘broadcasted’. If there is a cutting of tree to make the road, it does so as a whole tree, and if robbing mangoes, is the ‘news’ then it uses parts above the ground.
However, when we see tree, as a whole, we experience it as a whole. When we focus on the parts, we experience ‘as’ parts and not as a whole. But in the whole scheme of things, we cannot say, if tree should be conceived as wholeness or as a assembly of parts. When seen as a tree, the separation of parts dissolve and when seen as parts, the wholeness dissolves. They seem to individually exist in separation. But in actuality, they can only exist ‘as whole’. The separation is imagination for story, as if they ‘can’ exist separate. So separation is and is not and neither, from the point of reality. It is the feel that decides the case and it is the case that decides the feel. Cant say, what comes first or why.
So we are able to appreciate the wholeness of the flower, than its parts, wholeness of the tree, than its parts and so on. So the whole ‘seeing’ is a point of ‘focus’ and when the focus is on the whole, it seems whole, and focus is on parts, it seems as small as that part, but for that ‘part’ it seems whole, as required for a presentation of story.
Separation needs concepts or meanings for memory and story. Such knack used, is not to be taken as a separate entity or thingness. Thingness of the separate boundary, is a story pattern, to memorise a boundary, and such thingness, maintains the story as long as it can maintain the separation. The belief is separation is fully connected to the belief in the story. We cannot see, in parts, if the story, doesn’t demand such seeing. We do see ‘flower’ as a whole, but there is no flower that can be seen, if plucked or separated as parts. Where did the ‘flower’ go?, Did it disappear, did it disintegrate. If it did exist separately, where did it go. There is just no talk about it.
‘Thingness’ is the key to separation. If you don’t see the petals, automatically, the flower will be seen, or the plant or the garden or the place or the country or the planet or the universe. So whenever, wholeness appears, separation disappears, separation being thingness, also disappears. Thingness and entity is same phenomenon. So absence of thingness, emptying of forms, is the key to wholeness. Emptying out oneself of an entity, empties all thingness of all forms, and what is left is just the wholeness of what is happening, without a story to it.
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