there is only this: the present
as for the past and future, all we know is stories*
the whole is all that is: the present, stories included
nothing exists apart from the whole
recast for nothing, these are
the three marks of existence:
- nothing doesn’t change
- nothing isn’t dukkha*
- nothing is independent
nothing coexists with the whole
nothing is other than the whole
no one is*
2024-05-10 / link to this post from this date at bit.ly/dateposted
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a note on the post ten theses of secular dharma / Stephen Batchelor* links to the present*
the three marks of existence (!?) / see also Haldane’s four stages of acceptance (!*)
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*nothing isn’t dukkha: nothing is perfect, ideal, complete, beyond change, beyond dependence*