Excerpts from Wei Wu Wei.
Relativity or reasoning by means of comparison of opposing
concepts, is necessarily a psychological process which is only applicable to
the description of objects.
Its operation psychically
creates such objects as images in mind, in order to compare them with other
objects, and it likewise imagines qualities to be compared with opposing qualities that
are to be attributed to the object being described.
Since the objects so conceived require a subject in order
that they may appear as objects, the process of conceiving is then itself
conceived as the conceiver.
This is a brief indication of how duality arises and of the emergence
of an I-concept or ‘ego’ to a ‘me-sense’.
In this process, what is conceiving could never be any means
to be conceived, since what is conceiving could never be an object and so
cannot be conceived by ‘itself’. The
process of conceiving cannot conceive the process of conceiving, by conceiving ‘conceiving’
into an object.
It follows that whatever may be the degree of efficacy of
relative thought in the accurate description of objects, it can have no degree
whatever of efficacy in describing whatever in not objective.
This implies that such efficacy as it may have for physical and
philosophical reasoning, is automatically inoperative when it is employed for
reasoning about whatever is metaphysical.
Relative reasoning can have nothing to offer whenever it is
used to the subjective or the noumenal.
It should be sufficiently clear that the reason for this is
the presence of the suppositional subject which is brought into theoretical existence
in order to account for an apparent existence of objects as phenomena in mind.
Is it not clear that none of this can have any ‘but’ a
conceptual existence in mind and the source of this psychic construction is the
‘conceiving’ as such, about which nothing possibly can be conceived?
So there is no do-er or anything done, but only a ‘do-ing’ which
is the conceiving of whatever action may appear to be performed.
Relativity or divided mind, is whole mind split by
conceptualising. It is ‘mind’ conceptually dividing into apparent object and
the suppositional subject of that object.
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Do you see that?
Yes of course,
Well, do you believe it?
Why do you ask?
Because for you seeing is believing
For me seeing is –just seeing.
That is as comprehensive a description of the divided mind as I have ever read. Once conceptualising ceases, you are the self. Another invaluable addition to your essays.
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