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Brhman/Existence/God, without itself undergoing any change, appears as the world. Non-dualism philosophy, Advaita-Vedanta, holds this paradox as the truth.
This thread’s focus is not to discuss the philosophy or its validity, but the paradox that it holds as true.
A tree is an object having the quality of “treeness.” So tree is a locus for the quality “treeness”. Now is that object, that locus itself, tree or non-tree?
It cannot be tree because if the locus is tree it implies the presence of treeness since locus ‘tree’ cannot be without already having treeness. We have to say it is non-tree, which means a non-tree has a quality of treeness which is a paradox. Unless you have superimposed treeness upon the non-tree, this is not possible. This type of paradox exists in everything that we see as the world.
Does the paradox hold true or does it fall apart?
It falls apart! Everything is field and what we associate as "trees" within the field are ONLY the "locus" within the field that manifests the "treeness" we observe and interpret with our mind. The locus that manifests "treeness" is the "icon" our brain presents on the "screen" of our mind. What we see as Reality is analogous to a computer screen that interprets the electron stream into text and icons so we can use it. Our brain interprets the field of reality so we can function within it.
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