Differences - Inside & Outside

"Some days all this stuff is just so irrelevant I can't even make myself thing about it. It's like an elastic pull that prevents stepping back and analyzing experience. It's not about there being or not being an inside/outside, it's just completely not applicable. Does that distinction make sense to anyone?" -- Ona

"In other words, the arising of anything depends upon the impermanence of everything - including this concept. Turtles all the way down." -- Jackson

To me the inside/outside distinction DOES matter, and quite a lot. Everything is neither, and both, all at once. Everything is inextricably interwoven and interconnected, and yes, empty and luminous, such that the distinction (in/out) matters not in the absolute sense and allows us to talk about things (concepts) in the relative sense in day to day life.

The fact that A is only A because some things are not A is right on and fits very neatly into the picture - if we remember that A is always and only my unique experience of A while you have yours. It is essentially convention. Yet in the absolute convention is torn up and thrown away.