an impression, trace that remains of something once here, or that passed this way
Tibetan teacher Tsongkhapa in 1397 used the word shul to explain the Buddhist belief of Emptiness. ‘Emptiness’ here means everything perceived arises in dependence upon multiple causes and conditions; nothing exists as a singular, independent entity. (This is termed: Dependent Co-Arising.).
Only Dependent Co-Arising can be the ground, the frame validating one’s time, having arisen out of nothingness to persist a while before reverting to eternal concealment. All is a tentative expression of one seamless, ever-changing landscape.
No independent self, no inner me, no soul to persist beyond natural life-span.
As Heraclitus “All is One“. As John Donne “No man is an island“. As Albert Einstein: “Our separation of each other is an optical illusion of consciousness“.
So the desire to write here the recordings of a mind; memories of crossings, interactions with others’ minds, and of shared perceptions of the World.
When too others are gone and along with them their impressions of me … then my written words will be the only trace of my consciousness having ever so existed in the World.
“Every man has within himself the entire human condition.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
