I started writing something about how, in the View, everything is one taste. But I put that aside and it sat in my “drafts” list for a time. In Hedendaags Fetischisme (that “lonely monument of reason”), Carry van Bruggen writes about what she calls: the “solar eclipse” approach to thinking. This approach supposes that a unique occurrence is more special than a common occurrence. She uses the example of people who travel the world to experience a solar eclipse, while they’ve stopped taking notice of the sun rising and setting every day. Striving for unity is striving for death, is her central premise, striving for life is striving for distinction, separation. How true. It is not as if going for coffee is done less attentively and witnessing someone die more so. Drinking coffee and standing there at someone’s death are of the same order. We don’t realize it, because we put off the thought of death until we are confronted with it in our own or someone else’s death. And we aren’t conscious of the entire stream of existence because we distinguish between life and death, pleasure and pain. What is true for others’ deaths is true for our own death - and life - too. Being conscious of the reality of death fully, brings forth that oneness. Every mystical tradition seeks to teach that to its followers.