>>13029958Because experiential reality is reality, you see?
Everything else that requires a third party observer isn’t direct experience which at that point already turns it into a conceptualizing form of understanding.
It’s why the focus on the rising and falling of the abdomen is one method of understanding the impermanent nature of our given situation.
Which is why the Buddha said you’re free to try it for yourself to find out.
I’m not making the claim of understanding all forms of existing phenomena whether they be form or formless as that’s not necessarily helpful.
What’s helpful is understating our reality (which is what I mean by reality as it is) which is that we are born, we live, we age, we get sick and we die.
The breathing meditation on either your breath or falling and rising of ones abdomen is simply a constant reminder of the impermanent nature of our reality.
Unless you can point out a single thing in our known universe or experience that has shown itself to be permanent?
