If things did in fact exist the way they appear - if things did
exist so
concretely - then when one looked into and investigated them, this
inherent
existence should become even clearer, more obvious. However, when
you seek
for the object designated, you cannot find it under analysis.
[That] which gives rise to the appearance of I is mind and body,
but when
you divide this into mind and body and look for the I, you cannot
find it.
Also the whole, body, is designated in dependence upon the
collection of
parts of the body; if you divide this into its parts and look for
the body,
you cannot find it either.
Even the most subtle particles in the body have sides and hence
parts. Were
there something partless, it might be independent, but there is
nothing that
is partless. Rather, everything exists in dependence on its
parts... There
is no whole which is separate from its parts.
No matter what the phenomenon is, internal or external, whether it
be one's
own body or any other type of phenomenon, when we search to
discover what
this phenomenon is that is designated, we cannot find anything that
is it.
However, these things appear to us as if they do exist objectively
and in
their own right, and thus there is a difference between the way
things
appear to our minds and the way they actually exist... Since
phenomena
appear to us in a way that is different from what we discover
when
analysing, this proves that their concrete appearance is due to a
fault of
our minds.
by The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso,
translated and
edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, co-edited by Elizabeth Napper, from
"Kindness,
Clarity, and Insight" published by Snow Lion Publications
