(© RKP, 1960)'Space' only results from seeing things separately and one after the other, a result of our innate inability to have more than one percept at a time. It is a deduction. The notion that there is such a thing, that it exists in itself and of its own right, is absurd!
Space is a concomitant of the process of seeing things independently, indeed of seeing things at all, i.e. of being a spectator, of oneself being separated from oneness. It is therefore dependent on the illusory notion of self.
Space is a supposition for which there is no adequate evidence, of whose existence there is no likelihood, a purely gratuitous complication which obscures a clear vision of reality.
En fin de compte it is just an assumption for which there is no justification whatever. All things considered, it is as big a clown as its compeer - that old lag of the circus of living that we know familiarly as Time.
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Space is what separates objects. It consists of holes joined together by phenomena. It has no other function than that of keeping things apart. Their apparent apartness depends on this factor, and seems to justify it as an assumption. But if they are seen as one, even for a moment, 'space' automatically vanishes, for there is no place for it.
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TWO: We talk about the phenomenal, and we know what it means, but what does it really amount to in practice? What are its limits, its real significance?
ONE: Press a button - and there's nothing to be seen anywhere.
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