Dennis Mahar wrote:That is dependent arising.
dependent origination.
bodies eat each other, body thang.
completely objective.
recycle depot.
what's on the menu?
It is true that hungry and eating are dependently originated, but to the conscious mind that is focused on remaining conscious, hunger is experienced as an absolute thing. Relativism does not exist for the hungry body, it wants what it wants, now! One doesn't have to go far to observe the conscious mind directed in action absolutely - watch a hungry lion chasing a gazelle unto its death. The lion and the gazelle are both beings of dependent origination but when the lion pursues (an absolute action) the gazelle runs (also an absolute action).
Leaving the animal realm behind absoluteness of action enters the moral realm, I
will do this or I
won't do this. This is the genius of the mind that cares not what others think of his or her actions, it does what it is willed to do by its conscience (will of spirit or God) and by its conscience only, Thy will is done. The absolute man or woman does not suffer, for he or she does not suffer the emotional residue of doubt or guilt or regret that the man or woman of dual-relative actions suffers.
Will does not ask "what's on the menu?" It rests in the empty things of spirit and listens (yin) for the absolute will of the infinite to speak (yang).