In the Seen, There Is Just The Seen

My son is the same as the table. My partner appears the same as the filing cabinet. Dog shit is the same as a salad - but I wouldn’t eat it.

The fact that I can tell the difference between things means that my conditioning exists by which I can function. For example, when I walk into the bathroom, I know to pee in the toilet and not the sink.

Although I have peed in the sink during my teenage years.

When I refer back to memories of a self, it is clear also that, although it appeared to operate as a separate individual, this was simply just the One divided into two: subject and object, but I don’t have any qualifier for what the One is, and I certainly don’t mean Oneness - absolutely not!

As you can probably gather, using language to describe this is very problematic. It causes all sorts of issues, particularly in the various traditions. A word can only refer to more words, but this cannot be contained within a word - it's too restrictive. It cannot even be contained within a structure like the fetters. This makes the fetters obsolete from the outset; a complete and total lie - but for the moment, it's the best I can do with words.