The Nature Of Reality - Verse Thirty Four

In individual and collective manifestation,
self and nonself are not two.
The cycle of birth and death is achieved in every moment.
Consciousness evolves in the ocean of birth and death.

No manifestation is only individual or only collective. The natural resources are a manifestation of our collective consciousnesses. All of us can visit Bodhgaya and see the Bodhi tree. However, there may be a tree in your dream that only you know of. That is not visible to us. However just like how the tree in your dream does not exist, separate from you, the Bodhi tree is not separate from us. We classify the five skandhas as self and the rest as nonself but in reality self and nonself are not separate from each other.

The gardener (mind consciousness) planted the seeds in the field (store consciousness) and the seeds have now become plants and are bearing fruit. The fruits have not appeared from nowhere. They are not separate from the tree. Mangoes come from mango trees, not pineapple trees. The tree is not separate from the seed. Mango trees come from mango seeds, not watermelon seeds. The soil, the sun, water, all play a part in the transformation of the seed into a sapling. There are elements of the soil, the sun, water in the sapling. The sapling transforms into a tree which then bears fruit. Unaware of all this, the fruit may think it is separate from water. The fruit is unable to recognize the water in itself. The fruit loves rainfall but when it is not raining, it misses the rain, the water. It suffers.

Our body and mind undergo transformation all the time. Cells in our body die and new cells replace them. Children lose their teeth and new stronger teeth replace them. After we shave, hair grows again. We are never the same. We change every moment. Birth is manifestation and death is non-manifestation. The 'me' that manifests this moment dies this very moment and a new 'me' manifests the next moment. We only manifest for a moment. Everything only manifests for a moment. Our consciousness evolves from moment to moment. Our consciousnesses are not static.

(Based on the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.)

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