The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

or even non-existence areabstracted representations ofthings which do not exist separatefrom an observer or a perceiver,(which also appear only due tothis omitting process).Dristi Shruti Vada: “The world isonly there as long as there is an“I” there to perceive it.”Nisargadatta Maharaj:“If you can forget it or rememberit, it is not you, thereforediscard it.”Bishop Berkeley’s question, oftenmistakenly accredited to Zen, is:“If a tree falls in the forest andthere is nobody there, does itmake a sound?”No…not without a perceiver.Once again notice how the Doctrineof NO pervades.53