UnbornTao

@Sugarcoat That picture is the closest I've gotten to making a tiramisú myself.

Surf the waves of "Maya" 🌊🌊🏄

What can we think that hasn't been thought of before?

Perhaps. There are also distinctions to be made within constructions: your coffee table could be called a "fact" or perceptive occurrence, as opposed to, say, a two-headed dragon.

Perhaps another way to frame the discussion: What is inherent and intrinsic to reality? What is itself?

Let the communism flow!

Painted by Lao Tzu himself Surfing on Samsara edit: I don't even know what the Chinese text in the picture says. "Take off your shoes at the entrance"?

@JoshB That's fine, too.

Salty!

Make a new model with pretzels

And they were also humans that lived and taught at some point in history. Looking at their lives can be fun. Does the fact that it is constructed detract from engagement in the activity?

if we consider depth of construction, there might be no chair there, and no "there".

I get your point, yet from a certain viewpoint, the body could be seen as biologically constructed. Oxygen isn't inherent to existence either, it is the result of a chemical process. So, we can recognize different levels of depth in constructions.

Good question. When you find out, tell me. Do we experience the nature of constructions, though?

Thanks for providing the updated document.

I'm not sure either, you could ask him and tell us.

A principle: if you can do it in a short amount of time, say 5 minutes or so depending on the task, do it now. Or do it now, period. Apply it intelligently of course.

Noted, take care.

If we postulate that one's nature is absolute, and self relative, what does that place creation and creativity? As an absolute, Being is not created, so it isn't the result of a process, or anything else for that matter. But at this point our (intellectual) understanding stops (or at least mine does).

Stop this already; no abusive language or insults, which is how name calling is defined.

Yet being as a verb is not intrinsic. It is a doing, not what is. Without this activity, that being-construction wouldn't be perceived nor come to exist. So clearly we see a need to separate our "normal" experience of self, and what could be considered our real essence or nature. Try to open up some space in your experience for that distinction.

What do you mean?