Evidently, here is this discernible 'multiplicity'.
Obviously, any one of it's members (including 'ourselves') can ONLY exist if the necessary conditions are present. All of these conditions are other members of the multiplicity, which can ONLY exist if the necessary conditions are present. All of THESE conditions are -OTHER- other members of the multiplicity, which can ONLY exist if the necessary conditions are present, and so on, ad infinitum.
Therefore, no member of the multiplicity could possibly be existing in exactly the way that it is without ALL OTHER members existing in exactly the way that they are. In this way, every single member naturally INCLUDES every other member within it's own uniquely impermanent existence.
This being the case, none of them can ACTUALLY be the solely self-inclusive 'things' or 'events' that they conceptually SEEM to be.
As such, it is most accurate to regard ALL members of the multiplicity (including ourselves) as 'impermanent discernible features' of This (also called Reality Itself).
The multiplicity itself is one of two 'permanent discernible features' of This (and can be described as an 'ever-changing coherent asymmetry').
The so-called 'space' that apparently encompasses the multiplicity is the other permanent discernible feature of This; the 'singularity' (which is itself absolutely changeless, structureless and un-encompassed).
If the 'ceaseless change' that is the multiplicity had an absolute beginning, that beginning would also be the ending of a prior 'beginningless absence of change'. If it had an absolute ending, that ending would also be the beginning of a subsequent 'endless absence of change'. Logically, such a situation is an absolute impossibility.
Therefore (given the fact that the multiplicity DID 'evidently' have a beginning), this ceaseless change MUST be eternally cyclic.
Logically, neither the presence of This Itself, nor the fact that It has ANY discernible features at all (let alone these two permanent ones and these many impermanent ones) require a cause of any kind.
In other words, This just (((IS)))
Exactly WHAT It is can NEVER be known.
Evidently, some of the 'conscious' impermanent discernible features are of such an extreme level of physical complexity that they have the natural capacity to become 'hypnotized' by their surroundings.
This hypnosis makes it SEEM to these extremely complex 'conscious features' (or in other words, 'intelligent body/mind life-forms') that each of the impermanent discernible features (including themselves) are in fact 'solely self-inclusive' (which is to say, that they are all fundamentally existing different 'things' and 'events' that each have their own separate, independent nature), and that they themselves each have their own personal consciousness and are the autonomous originators of their own particular movements.
As such, the 'hypnotized conscious features' perceive This to be a vast, confusingly fragmented and threatening situation, and so perceive themselves to be isolated and vulnerable individuals. This is the illusion of separateness and duality. The hypnosis it arises from is the fundamental basis of ALL suffering.
Sometimes, this hypnosis is inexplicably woken up from. This waking up is the very REALIZATION that ALL so-called 'things' and 'events' (including 'ourselves') are NEVER anything other than impermanent discernible features of This. When this happens, the illusion that one has ever been (or will ever be) a solely self-inclusive individual naturally dissolves, as do the feelings of isolation and vulnerability that are inherently associated with this illusion.
From this point on, one's very stand is taken AS This....