Day 63 of 365: No Reality On Which to Depend

There is no reality on which the parts are dependent.

This is the fourth analysis of seven.  If there were a reality on which the parts depended, this would mean that the parts themselves were not real since they were not singular, lasting, and independent.  How could one have something real comprised of things that weren't?   From another perspective, if there were a reality on which the parts depended, we should be able to find it.  However, having gone through the exercise of looking for such a reality, we know that one does not exist.  When we disassemble the parts, there is no object (no cart or car in this case).  Thus, there is no reality inside.  It cannot be separate from the parts either, since the object is dependent on the parts--if we were to take them away, there would be no object.

Day 62 of 365: No Possession

There is no real possession of a whole by its parts, or of parts by an imagined whole, just as cartness, which does not truly exist, cannot possess parts or vice versa.

This one piggy backs off the first two analyses.  Since we have shown that there is no essential reality of a cart outside of the parts, there can be no possession by either.

This was such a throw back to the first two analyses that I went over those again.  There is no essential reality in a thing as a whole, and there is no reality distinct from the sum of the parts.  If we believe that there is an essential reality to something like a cart, then that essential reality would need to be in the thing as a whole or distinct from all the parts.  If it were in the thing as a whole, then it would have to be somewhere in the thing. Taking the object apart reveals that we cannot find the essential reality in this way--we will no longer see any cart, for example, when we take it apart.  The cart is also totally dependent on the parts, so there can be no essential reality which is distinct from them.

Day 61 of 365: Analysis 2

There is no essential reality in a thing as a whole, just as there is no reality in a cart as a whole. 

Having broken down a cart or car into constituent parts, we can see there is no essential reality in a thing.  However, there can be a tendency to think that as we reassemble something it is becoming greater than the sum of the parts.  It can seem that there is some kind of thingness present as we put that last piece in place.  However, we must look at this closely and notice that is it nothing other than our concept about something that has come into being.  There is nothing single, lasting, and independent which we can point to which is separate from the parts.