Day 39 of 365: Flowers in the Sky

When the right causes and conditions are present, objects appear, and when they don't, they don't.  This is, for example, the reason we don't have flowers in the sky.  This is not, however, a basis for claiming that anything truly exists or does not exist.  Our five sense consciousnesses do not think "this is real" or "this is not real".  These ideas are concepts in the sixth consciousness.  There is only the direct perception without this overlay of concept.  Consider our thought that, say, a flower is real.  In order for the flower to be truly existent, it would have to exist independently of our idea of it not existing.  Clearly, this is not the case.  We only consider something as "here" relative to it "not being here".  Therefore, whatever it is, it is beyond both truly existing or not existing.