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12 Questions to ask upon experiencing a buttercup. • Who is now seeing the form and the yellow and smelling the fragrance? • What IS yellow, and how does the experience of it arise? • If the buttercup blooms and no one sees it, is the yellow still there? • How is it that carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, etc. assume the form of a buttercup here and a daisy over there? • Is the buttercup perceived with the eyes, nose and fingers the whole buttercup? • Where is the buttercup in the winter? • What IS this experience of "beauty"? • Does it matter that I have experienced this particular buttercup? • And how about it if I cut it and place it in a vase? • Would it make someone happy if I did that and gave it to them? • When I talk to the buttercup does it understand me? • Would it really matter if this buttercup species went extinct? (P. Skaller) |