Without Borders

When you are indistinct from what you see, meaning you the viewer cannot think of yourself apart from what you see, than supposedly you and you sighting are one. This same logic can be applied to the other senses such that I would be one and the same with what I hear or what I taste or touch and so be inseparable from those elements. Yet I would like to think of myself as being apart from all those experiences as being in control of them. I have just substantiated my boundaries according to the philosopher Ken Wilber in No Boundaries .

The notions beyond his book goes into how one could break through those boundaries by realizing that the thing experienced is not apart from me, that I am one with whatever I experience and it is for the most part an illusion because it is a very unreal. It is real only insofar as I would like to see it and define as something separate from myself, to be observed, characterized and labeled.

So from the time that we have been given life, we are imbibed by the notion that everything around us must have a name. It has to fit in a box. What we see as distinct from us is outside us and we experience away from that is inside. We are constantly busy reinforcing that universe of opposites that leads to conflict much the way, according to Wilber, Adam eventually faced a conflict that set him out to a world where there would be good and evil. One may fail to see though how a world without evil on this earth could have existed in the first place and would have to go back to a time when there were no distinctions to be able to appreciate these notions..