Day 38 of 365: Sense Perceptions

Nagarjuna next examines meeting and parting (contact).  One of the most fundamental examples of this, which we take as real, is the meeting or our sense object, sense faculty, and the perceiving sense conciousness.  We take our perceptions as real nearly every second of every day.  However, Nagarjuna challenges us to consider another possibility: they do not really meet.  This argument should be a well worn path at this point, but somehow it always seems fresh since each moment of confusion is fresh.  Can the perceived object exist before the perceiving organ?  No, because then there would be a perceived object without a perceiving organ.  What about the converse, the perceiving organ before the perceived object?  That can't be either because then there would be an eye, for example, seeing without an object.  How could that be?  What about them coming into being at the same time?  Nagarjuna shoots that down as well.  If they came into existence at the same moment and were real (in particular, independent), then they couldn't have a dependent causal relationship.  Thus, the sense object and organ are dependently arisen mere appearance and cannot meet.  Forgetting all the logic, can you relax, take the sense conciousnesses as nonconceptual and perceive the world in this way?