Chapter 28 Chapter 3 Everything Is Empty-2

Siddhartha believed that the teachings were not easy, and it was absolutely true.In a world driven by greed, pride, and materialism, it is very difficult to teach even the basic principles of love, compassion, and altruism, let alone the ultimate reality of emptiness.We are trapped by ephemeral ideas, limited by reality.For us, what we can master and use immediately is worth our time and energy.Viewed in this light, emptiness as defined by the Buddha seems to be completely useless.We might think this way - what is the benefit of contemplating the impermanence and emptiness of the phenomenal world?What benefits does empty performance bring?

With limited rationality, we have a set of conclusions about what makes sense, what makes sense—and emptiness transcends this limitation.This seems to be due to the fact that the human mind operates with an inappropriate logical system, so that emptiness cannot fit in our heads even though there are countless other logical systems available at the same time.We are operative to always think that this moment was thousands of years ago, and if someone told us that the whole of human evolution happened in the instant of a sip of coffee, we would not be able to understand.Likewise, when we read in Buddhist scriptures that one day in hell is equal to 500 years, we think that these religious figures are just trying to scare us into submission.However, imagine a week-long vacation with your sweetheart - time flies by like the snap of your fingers.And a night in jail with a gangster rapist feels like a year.Feeling this way, the time may not be so sure.

Some of us may allow a little bit of the unknown to enter our thinking system, giving; psychic powers, intuition, ghosts, spiritual mates some space, but we mostly rely on black and white, science-based logic.A small number of so-called "geniuses" may have the courage or skill to transcend conventions, and as long as their views are not too extreme, they may be recognized as artists, like Dali and others.There are also some well-known yogis who deliberately went beyond a little bit, so they are revered as "holy madmen".But if you really go too far beyond what is acceptable, if you fully embrace emptiness, people are likely to think you are abnormal, crazy and irrational.

However, Siddhartha was not irrational, he just made it clear that ordinary, rational thinking is limited.We cannot, or will not, go beyond our own comfort zone to understand.It is much more practical to operate with the linear concept of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, such as "time is relative".We weren't programmed to think that I could get into that yak horn without changing size or shape.We cannot do away with the concepts of big and small; instead, we have been limited by the safe and narrow perspectives that have been passed down from generation to generation.Yet none of these arguments hold water when they are scrutinized.For example, the linear notion of time on which the world is so dependent fails to account for the fact that time has no real beginning and no end.

With this rationality, which is at best inaccurate, we measure or label things as real.In our certification process, the three functions, continuity and consensus have played an important role.We think that if something has a function—for example, your hand seems to have the function of holding this book—then it must exist in a constant, ultimate, effective way.A photo of a hand can't have the same function, so we know it's not the real hand.Similarly, if something seems to have a persistent quality—for example, we saw a mountain yesterday and it is still there today—we are sure that it is "true" and will be there tomorrow, the day after. Where.And when other people confirm that they have seen the same things, we are even more convinced that they are real.

Of course, we are not consciously inferring, confirming, and labeling the real existence of things anytime and anywhere-this is a real book in my real hand-we subconsciously believe that the world It does exist to operate, and this affects our thoughts and feelings in every moment of our daily lives.Only on rare occasions, when we look in the mirror or see a mirage, do we think something is just an appearance.There is no flesh and blood in the mirror, and no water in the mirage.We "know" that they are not real, that they have no inherent existence.This type of understanding might have taken us further, but we have only stayed within the limits of the rational mind.

So when we hear that a person can fit into a yak's horn without changing size, we don't have much choice -- we can be "rational" and dismiss it as impossible; or we can quote someone A kind of mystical belief or idolatry of magic, of course Milarepa is such a great yogi, of course he can do that, and even more than that.Both views are distorted, since denial is an underestimation and blind faith is an overestimation.