Friend: If appearance is all there is, what need is there for anything more?
Reply: When we say: ‘appearance is all there is’, the question which follows would be: ‘What is saying that?’
Appearance does not say anything. Appearance does not say: ‘Appearance is all there is. ‘
Something is saying that.
That something is real, and it is that which perceives and knows that it perceives.
Therefore, the statement ‘appearance is all there is’ is an incorrect and incomplete statement. There is more to it than that.
Or maybe less to it than that. There is the reality which perceives and is aware.
Friend: If appearance is all there is, what need is there for anything more?
Reply: When we say: ‘appearance is all there is’, the question which follows would be: ‘What is saying that?’
Appearance does not say anything. Appearance does not say: ‘Appearance is all there is. ‘
Something is saying that.
That something is real, and it is that which perceives and knows that it perceives.
Therefore, the statement ‘appearance is all there is’ is an incorrect and incomplete statement. There is more to it than that.
Or maybe less to it than that. There is the reality which perceives and is aware.
