From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   "This Universe which We Are" - Wei Wu Wei   
      
   37. I-I: This Universe which We Are   
      
   WHEN SUBJECT looks - subject sees object.   
   When subject is seen looking at object Subject   
   becomes object, and is no longer subject.   
      
   When subject looks at itself, it no longer sees   
   anything, for there cannot be anything to see,   
   since subject, not being an object as subject,   
   cannot be seen.   
      
   That is the 'mirror-void' - the absence of   
   anything seen, of anything seeable, which   
   subject is.   
      
   But it is neither 'mirror' nor 'void' nor any   
   thing at all.  It is not even 'it'.   
      
   That is the transcendence of subject and object -   
   which is pure is-ness.   
      
   That is what is - the total absence which is   
   the presence of all that seems to be.   
      
   Perhaps it could be said better, but there can   
   be little more to be said.   
      
   Note: I-I was Sri Ramana Maharshi's term for an   
   ultimate Self. The 'mirror-void' is a resplendent   
   shining mirror which reflects the phenomenal   
   universe, revealing every thing and retaining   
   no thing.   
      
   --   
   Oh, for the love of signature silliness....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)