What ‘we’ve’ been calling the greater Consciousness (or God or whatever), Bankei called the -unborn-
Anything born is a shard of the unborn, coming from It and inevitably returning to Its limitless eternity.
Every shard is limited by time and space and thus impermanent. (This includes “me”, “you”, flowers, kitties, and like it or not, the president dipshit, anyone who voted for him, the one who runs the Zionist state, Jeffrey Epstein before he, uh, suicided, and the whole god damned Epstein class.)
All we know for sure is that consciousness Is.
Descartes the quintessential Westerner said: “I think, therefore I am” (and that’s all I know for sure).
Bankei and other brighter bulbs say Well yeah man, you got it, except … There is no I.
This is a picture of the not-I that thought of himself as being named D.T. Suzuki, and a not-I that had better sense than to think of itself as being named anything at all.
In addition to the link “I” posted “yesterday”, see also: