Thought for the day

Subject: Thought for the day.

If our search for "dependence arising" is a process of analysis, a process to establish the root of our experience and more importantly in our own relationship to that understanding, does it not disconnect us from reality, 'our reality' as it seeks to impose an understanding of the layers which make up that understanding.
There is only one way to look through a telescope to make sense of what we see but in a sense, what we see is imperfect and the more we try to define the distortion we simply amplify that distortion. How then, other than defining what we look at can we see the reality of that which lays around us. What lays around us is inconsequential, it's the snow on the radar screen which prevents us from seeing the object we actually wish to see. Seeing only the snow we have to imagine what it is that lays beyond but if we haven't experienced what lies beyond we have to experiment with a series of assumptions. The first assumption "awareness arising" would have us question our resolve to put "self" at the centre of 'our' equation. If we rid ourselves of the notion of self in this search for an elemental truth and put in its place the collective 'we', then we escape the questions surrounding our experience, and the distortions found, and pursue instead a generality, a sort of base line on which our philosophy can make progress.
So emptying the mind is rather a transference of the individual mind, to the fundamental mind, a philosophical mind which has a philosophical basis on which to create a new way to consider our existence.