practice of non-practice
Whenever you are absent as "you," You are present as I. So you may say "My absence as 'me' is My presence as I."
Of course I am always present as I, but when I appear to be present as "you" (or as "me") I seem to be absent, i.e. My presence appears to be an absence.
Also you may say "My absence as 'that' (which can be known) is My presence as THIS" (about which there cannot be anything to know).
If one were to think it, apperceive it, understand it, even occasionally?...
Note: When I am present as "you" I seem to last, to be extended in "time." When I am present as "you" others think they see me as "you," and they see a few bits of "your" surfaces, and other bits reflected in mirrors, but only bits and all surfaces, so that I appear as "form," extended in "space."
When I am present as I, I have no objective appearance at all to need extension, and I am no "thing" to have "duration." It is only as "you" that I am extended in form as appearance and require duration as time. As "me" I am not at all, for when I am objectified I am always "you" since all form soever is My "you."
I can only be seen or known as "you," but there are no "others" at all - only "you" as I, for except as appearance I am not in any sense "you" could understand - since "you" can only understand what "you" can objectify in "your" split-minded condition, and "you" cannot objectify what I am because I am all that "you" are.
-Wei Wu Wei
Of course I am always present as I, but when I appear to be present as "you" (or as "me") I seem to be absent, i.e. My presence appears to be an absence.
Also you may say "My absence as 'that' (which can be known) is My presence as THIS" (about which there cannot be anything to know).
If one were to think it, apperceive it, understand it, even occasionally?...
Note: When I am present as "you" I seem to last, to be extended in "time." When I am present as "you" others think they see me as "you," and they see a few bits of "your" surfaces, and other bits reflected in mirrors, but only bits and all surfaces, so that I appear as "form," extended in "space."
When I am present as I, I have no objective appearance at all to need extension, and I am no "thing" to have "duration." It is only as "you" that I am extended in form as appearance and require duration as time. As "me" I am not at all, for when I am objectified I am always "you" since all form soever is My "you."
I can only be seen or known as "you," but there are no "others" at all - only "you" as I, for except as appearance I am not in any sense "you" could understand - since "you" can only understand what "you" can objectify in "your" split-minded condition, and "you" cannot objectify what I am because I am all that "you" are.
-Wei Wu Wei