Today's contemplation involves looking at arising, abiding, and ceasing. Why you may ask? Apparently, someone in the last centuries made an argument that composite phenomena (things that arise, abide, and cease) are real (singular, lasting, independent) because arising, abiding, and ceasing are. I'm not entirely sure I follow that logic because ceasing implies that the object is not lasting. Regardless, this argument is helpful to look at because things arising, abide, and cease in our experience all the time.
Can you guess how the argument goes? Arising depends on there initially not being something, abiding depends on the arising, and ceasing depends on the abiding. Therefore, none of these can really be real. There are, in fact, completely dependent. So, what does that mean for composite phenomena? They are dependently arisen mere appearance. Can we see them that way?
Seems like a good opportunity to look again at movement as well (See Day 4).
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