NONDUALITY AND PHRASEOLOGY (BIRDS AND BRIDGES)

A bird flies through the sky and it’s seen. In that moment there is just seeing. Then something comes in and says, ‘I saw a bird’. Some people say, ‘An apparent bird appeared in an apparent reality to an apparent observer.’ It’s weird. It works for some people. It’s not wrong or right, but it sounds odd. An old atheist once said, ‘Sure maybe things have all been constructed by atoms and molecules and whatever that are moving around so fast they appear solid, feel solid, and maybe there is nothing at their core, but that talking and thinking like that is not what gets bridges built.’ He had something there. It’s maybe easier to say, I saw a bird. I walked over a bridge.