This cup is from Japan. (Inquiring into one of those stories that seem obviously true.)
- True?
Yes, that seems true. At least right now, before looking at it further. - Sure?
No. Cannot know for certain. It is only a story, and reality doesn’t conform to my stories. - What happens when I take that story as true?
- I take it as true. I feel that it is true. I find others agreeing.
- I make stories challenging this one wrong.
- I make the world smaller for myself. I pretend it conforms to my stories.
- Who would I be without it?
- Receptive. Curious. Interested in how it is true, how it is not true, and what is more true for me than any one story.
- Turnarounds.
- This cup is not from Japan.
- Well, as an image on my own mind it is here now.
- It is made of clay and glazes, and some of all of these may be from somewhere else than Japan.
- It may be made somewhere else, even if it looks Japanese and says “made in Japan”
- It couldn’t exist without the whole universe in its history and extent. So in that sense, it is a local expression of the whole and not really (just) from Japan.
- It is no thing appearing as something. Play of images within and as awakeness.
- When I am honest, I see that I really don’t know what it is.
- My thinking is from Japan.
- Yes, when I believe the initial story, my thinking about the cup goes to Japan.
- This cup is not from Japan.