ON AND OFF

Philosopher Alan Watts likened this world of form to a game of “now you see it, now you don’t.”   The reason it is “now you see it, now you don’t” is because of the mutual arising of opposites.  When something comes into existence, it carries with it the capacity to not be in existence.  Everything has a built-in on-and-off switch, this way. The trouble is, we cannot know in advance when a thing that is on, including ourselves, is going to be off.  Similarly, we cannot know ahead of time how long a thing that is off, including ourselves, will remain off.