22 Apr Koan 30

We see “its” everywhere and rarely notice “is”, though all there is is is.

There are two types of vision, foveal and peripheral.

Foveal vision is when our eyes focus and we mentally create static images of seemingly independent things (“its”).

Peripheral vision is unfocused, where all things are one undifferentiable flow; the “is”. The “is” is reality; an ambiguous flow of interdependent and everchanging things beyond description, other than that it is what it is whatever it is.

While 99% of our visual field is peripheral vision, we think the illusions we create through foveal vision are reality.