How are the monks talking about the actual situation
I am influenced by the Heart Sutra.
Here's a desk. We know this isn't there. Someone says it's there on the desk and is made of wood and is brown and hard.
It looks brown to me too, and if you hit it, I'm in pain.
But after all, there's no brown, no desk, and neither.
Even so, I don't like pain, and I live my life thinking that my desk is there. But when I look at it again, it's still not there.
Strongly speaking, I think it was until a while ago. But since it's not there, I thought it was strange to say “earlier,” and even though it wasn't there before, it was just a matter of putting it out loud, and anyway, I don't have a desk right now.
We can see a light blue teacup there, and so can I. But it's not there, and I can only say that it's not there, and there's no light blue either. Strongly speaking, that child probably thinks of himself as light blue, and I think it's light blue, too. But we know there's no light blue there.
What we said was, I'm sure we're talking about the same thing, but I wanted to hear if it was different among the monks. I think it's somewhere different.
I know that kid doesn't have light blue, but if that kid says, “I'm cute in light blue,” I think they'll say, oh, it's light blue, and I'm cute.
I don't have one. I don't think there is a god. I think if I were there, there would be God; if I wasn't, there would be no God. I think there is only either one or both, and by the way, I don't think there really is either. I thought the monk didn't say that.
There is a desk in front of us, and we can see a light blue teacup next to it, but I think we can only see it without it.
I often wonder if I'm talking about time.
If we're talking about time, there's nothing to call it a moment ago, and there's no such thing as having a desk now.
There is no concept that it is there now, and there is no fact that it can be said that there is a desk in relation to this desk, and I think that Buddha was ridiculous and didn't talk limited to the spiritual world.
I think it's there, and I look again at the desk that can only be described, and I can only see that it's not there anymore, and by the way, I think it's necessary to say that the desk is there again, or that I don't need to say it. Am I talking about time?
Are the monks telling a different story?
