And so you see that we’re getting close to the sense of unity instead of multiplicity. And that means that we are able to see our uniqueness as— as well, let us say that we can see the unity embedded in the diversity. And, therefore, our uniqueness is somehow subsumed in the totality. In the oneness. It’s not separate. So that one does not lose one’s uniqueness but one does not lose the sense of the unity beyond the diversity. Both at the same time.

Like all the notes in a symphony, one still hears the whole symphony. Then, if you are a musician then you can start to detecting the different notes, different instruments but you have the overall picture of all the notes together forming what one calls a harmony. But there’s one more step and that is moving from everlastingness to eternity. And that is the whole point—that’s what Buddha, of course, was doing, a state of awakening—and that is you take off from the samsaric wheel.

That is expressed in the words of Buddha, “This become does not lead to the non-become.” There’s a break. So this become, that is the process of becoming, can lead to everlastingness, but not to eternity.