Going off on a wild tangent here, but all this strikes me as eerily similar to what I recently read in Rob Burbea’s “Seeing That Frees”: a book about meditative approaches to Buddhist “emptiness” insight.
Burbea repeatedly insists on the “fabricated” nature of reality: that it doesn’t appear to us in any raw form with an inherent nature of its own, but that any time it appears to us it does so by means of our own construction of it (and in a way that’s always tangled up in our agendas: i.e. we don’t see anything “as it is” but only “as it means to me”).
This isn’t anything I can vouch for, but it’s something I’ve been trying to get my head around. Burbea’s book is largely a catalog of exercises a meditator can undertake to try to get first-hand knowledge of this fabricated/constructed/inherently-empty nature of reality so he or she doesn’t have to take Burbea’s word for it.
Going off on a wild tangent here, but all this strikes me as eerily similar to what I recently read in Rob Burbea’s “Seeing That Frees”: a book about meditative approaches to Buddhist “emptiness” insight.
Burbea repeatedly insists on the “fabricated” nature of reality: that it doesn’t appear to us in any raw form with an inherent nature of its own, but that any time it appears to us it does so by means of our own construction of it (and in a way that’s always tangled up in our agendas: i.e. we don’t see anything “as it is” but only “as it means to me”).
This isn’t anything I can vouch for, but it’s something I’ve been trying to get my head around. Burbea’s book is largely a catalog of exercises a meditator can undertake to try to get first-hand knowledge of this fabricated/constructed/inherently-empty nature of reality so he or she doesn’t have to take Burbea’s word for it.