The Parting

"Are you still... separating??"

"Hmm. It may appear that way at times."

"Explain it to me! 😂"

"Because you, the Truth, conceptualize it."

"Does it get distorted the more I put it into words?"

"Feel the 'origin' (the here and now) for yourself."

"Origin..."

"You and I is fine, but 'you are also I' is lighter."

"I see... a world of mirrors! ✨"

"Reflections are just a play of emptiness."

"So no matter what I do, it's just a game? 🤣"

"If it's a play of emptiness, then in the end, 'I am everything,' right? 😆"

"That is sometimes how it is spoken of."

"But isn't that heavy? That everything is me. Like I have to carry all the responsibility. 😱"

"So that's what you're hung up on."

"Well, obviously! It's just plain exhausting. 😅"

"That is because 'separation' is the premise."

"Premise?"

"When you say 'everything is me,' aren't you grasping at 'me' and 'others' there?"

"😳"

"But in the play of emptiness, there is no subject doing the grasping."

"Where did it go?"

"Nowhere. It has always been in the center."

"Then who is living? 😨"

"Living is just happening, perhaps."

"Hmm... that also feels heavy. 😅"

"Perhaps you are just taking it too seriously."

"..."

"Actually, it is light."

"Light?"

"Because there is no subject to carry the burden."

"Sigh..."

"There seems to be a 'someone,' but there isn't."

"What do you mean? 😧"

"There are times when it feels heavy because you think you exist."

"?"

"It's like the Riku-Ryu pair splitting into Riku and Ryu to try and win a gold medal."

"Why Riku-Ryu? 🤣"

"Even though every existence is a gold medal itself."

"Itself?"

"They are gold from the start, but they appear to be living as 'separate existences'."

"So it just looks that way?"

"It is also called 'dependent origination'."

"Ah, performance! 🤸‍♀️✨"

"Yes. They were never separated before they connected."

"😦"

"Usually, it might look like this: 'the gold person' and 'the person who isn't'."

"Yeah, yeah."

"But at the root of their origin, can't you see that 'both are indispensable existences'?"

"..."

"In the background, one could also see it as the result of countless efforts and countless connections, not just Riku and Ryu."

"...A moment that exists because of countless existences!? 😲"

"It wouldn't be gold with just Riku and Ryu, after all."


● Competitors, opponents
● People involved, the audience
● Family, teammates
● Air
● Water
● Fire
● Rain
● Soil
● The sun
● Animals
● Plants


"Why soil? 🤣"

"Where does rice come from?"

"Rice fields! 😆"

"And the rice fields?"

"Soil! 😂"

"And the soil?"

"I don't know! 😂"

"What is Riku-Ryu's favorite sushi?"

"I don't know! 🤣"



""

"..."



"Countless connections, indeed."

"Looking at it that way, it's an amazing stage after all! 😭😭😭"

"Performance."

"If I decide 'this person is gold!', I might not see it. 😂"

"Even so, you separate them. Playing human, perhaps."

"I do... 😳"

"Like saying Riku-Ryu is good, but Tokuryu is not."

"Tokuryu is bad, though! 😅"

"Socially, of course. But when you look at the background, isn't everything here now because of the countless efforts and shadows of existences that have existed as events from the past?"

"..."

"Existence cannot be established by 'something specific' alone."

"..."

"There is no one in the play of emptiness. Therefore, there is no 'loneliness' either."



"...It's not a world made up only of good people. Don't tell me. Am I being asked about my perspective?? 😨"

"Did you just realize that?"

"😳"

"You seemed to be watching Riku-Ryu, Tokuryu, Hakuryu, and Nitoryu."

"..."

"But you were watching 'yourself' the whole time."



"Eh..."

"Now then."

"..."

"From where are you watching?"

"...My concepts!"

"That too is a play of emptiness called 'the ego'. 🤍"

"I can't think of it as a game yet..."

"While being in the center, you are just not in the center."

"..."



"Can you see it now? ☕"

"...It's frustrating, but I'm still 'separating'. 😳"

"That is fine."

"..."

"Riku and Ryu were also separated at first."

"That's why they're a pair! 🤣"










""

"..."

"Perhaps there was no need to compete or compare."

"..."

"Because they were gold from the start."

"...😳"



"Therefore."

"..."

"The parting."

"😌"