Reality is one undivided whole — not everything added up, but everything before it is broken into things at all. To mean anything is to divide it, this sentence included.
That cut runs two ways at once. Follow it one way and it keeps opening: one division becomes two, two become many, and a world of separate things spreads out. Follow it the other and it draws inward: the many gather, and attention closes on one thing and comes to rest. Not two cuts side by side — one cut, seen from its opening side and its settling side. Neither side adds anything to the Whole; both are only what the one cut is doing.
Not a practice, not a path, not yet science.
One part of a longer argument is published here — the work of one author, outside academia, not peer-reviewed, versioned and dated.
What this rests on
The argument rests on three things and nothing else.
- Axiom (what is assumed)
- — reality is one undivided whole, and it is unthinkable. ¶1–¶2
- Datum (what is simply the case)
- — meaning occurs; it cannot be denied without being done. ¶3
- Bridge (what links them)
- — to mean is to divide. Meaning does not make the cut; it is the cut. ¶2, ¶4
Everything else is consequence. If the account is wrong, it is wrong at one of those three points.