When I left the gathering yesterday (5/9) night and prepared to drive home , the tune "The Girl with Flaxen Hair" came up again. I don't
consider it a "Trend" since I was thinking about the popping-up of the tune while I was
in the parking lot last time. It should be more like a co-incidence than a trend...
The
reason I write about this topic again is that I
questions more about my modelling of the world. In MulaMadhyamakaKarika (MMK), our reasoning about time/cause and effect are all challenged. If we follow the arguments, things just
happen and we used our "flawed" reason to justify our way. I.e. there is some fruits
on the tree, we tend conclude that someone planted a tree and irrigated
it. The reasoning is a forward-going time line. What if the time line is
not really forward-going? What if, on the contrary, somehow, it is
determined that there needs to have a fruit tree? So, a couple of months
before it, someone planted a tree there. What if, the these events popped-up in a predetermined way and we just used our reason to connect time?
Our perception of the world is based on our eight consciousnesses but what if our consciousnesses is flawed? There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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