Tuesday, December 20, 2011

"Everything is Everything."




I have borrowed a term from physics, “continuum,” to stand as a technical term for manifest reality—the totality of patterns within ever-greater patterns in an ascending/descending holarchy, in which space-time-matter-energy are indivisible, and all that appears is mutually dependent on everything else.

This condition is expressed in street slang as “Everything is everything.”

In Buddhism, it is called “mutually dependent arising.”

William Carlos Williams wrote a great little poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow," that reveals the kernel:


So much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.




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