excerpted from: "Ponderings"
A work in progress
by Paul Curtis
KARMA, VIEW, SENSE, AND INTERDEPENDENT ARISING


You are unique. No one else is the same as you and you are the same as no one. No one has ever been the same as you, and you have never been the same as anyone else. You are not exactly like you were yesterday, and you won't be identical tomorrow to what you cognize yourself as today.

You are in the middle of shaping. You are shaping. You are being shaped. You are in union with your environment. Your environment is in flux. You are in flux. Through your senses you read your environment. How you read your environment depends entirely on your uniqueness. No one else reads a similar environment in exactly the same way.

Your view is a product of your experience. Your experience is a product of your view. No two beings will read these words and have identical experiences. There will be similar readings and views that could allow for meaningful dialogue, but not identical reading and assimilation. For some, the ideas expressed in these paragraphs may be profound, for others old hat, and for others, meaningless drivel. Read these or any paragraphs now and read them years from now. The reading will not be the same.

We do not see things as they are. In the spaceship we call earth, inhabited by numberless beings, multitudinous ways of sensing exist. Creatures see all sorts of different wave lengths of light, hear various ranges of sound and smell a variety of smells. They all have a view of their experience of existence, determined largely by their senses. The scents in your living room are completely different fields of experience for you and the family dog. Creatures that see into different ranges of light than humans, like infra red and ultra violet have completely different experiences of sight and light. The views based on different sensing of the environment are appropriate to the creature doing the sensing, often germaine to their survival. They are, however, partial views. We do not see things as they are.

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