All we ever have is present experiencing, the immediacy of Here-Now, this aliveness that includes everything but is no-thing in particular. Mapping (labelling, categorizing, conceptualizing, formulating, interpreting, theorizing) is an activity of this aliveness, but the maps are never the actuality they claim to represent. Memories are a present happening, not the event they claim to remember. Maps, memory and imagination are vital to human functioning in everyday life, but we suffer when we mistake the map for the territory and believe that solid, substantial, discrete, independent “things” (including “you” and “me” and “the world”) actually exist in the way we think they do. We can’t ignore or deny everyday reality, but it’s liberating to realize that the separations and divisions are purely notional. No “thing” can ever actually be pinned down or separated out from everything it apparently is not. There is no independent “self” to have (or not have) free will. No wave can ever move independently of the whole ocean. This living actuality cannot be grasped conceptually in any way whatsoever, and yet, here it is—obvious and unavoidable. And it includes everything, even apparent divisions, compulsive thinking, human neurosis, so-called evil, everything imaginable and conceivable—all one seamless, boundless, groundless whole.