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Very often, for most practical reasons, people are being asked to introduce themselves, or provide a little bit of information which, in short, tells something about who they are. These conceptual ways of thinking about what represents our personality have become habitual ways of thinking and function as means to express what, and ultimately, who we (think we) are. 

Of course, there is nothing wrong with thinking and acting according to certain worldly concepts in and of itself at all. However, if we look a little deeper into the meaning and "existence" of conditionings in the mind, then we shall realize that they all just consist of mental formations, some coarse and some subtler ones, that are based on our perceptions. Notions of existence and non-existence, then, are also just created by the mind. 

All phenomena can thus be percieved as one. Likewise, modern science has percieved the truth that not only matter and energy are one, but matter and space are also one. In fact, not only matter and space are one, but matter, space, and mind are one, because mind is in matter and space.

'Matter', in this context, refers to form; form is emptiness, and it is precisely emptiness what makes form possible to exist, it is the ground of everything. Form can be either physical (matter) or mental (mind); body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness - none of them have a separate existence. When said that form is emptiness it means that it is empty of a separate self / identity.

Everything has emptiness as its own nature, and that is why everything can be. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. And because of change there is only continuation.

Thus, the name 'Merely Transitional' refers to an interpretation of the Buddhist concepts of impermanence (anicca in Pāli) and emptiness (śunyata in Sanskrit), for any other blog title would just be of irrelevant importance anyway.