Original sentence: ) is in fact only a particular relationship between you and the apple.According to these notions, nothing in the universe has existence in and of itself, but only exists with relation to other objects.Bundle Theory in many ways resembles many Eastern metaphysical approaches, including the Taoist concept of formlessness, and Buddhist concepts of Shunyata ("emptiness"), Dependent Arising, and impermanence.Eastern traditions go farther, however, noting that this metaphysical situation applies to the observer him/her/itself.Hence, what Western philosophy might call a [[Property (philosophy)]|property]] refers to a relationship between the observer-perciever and the object being observed.In this way, meditation combined with reasoning becomes a powerful tool for metaphysical investigation.Martin Buber presents a very similar idea in his book I and Thou, and similar ideas present themselves in many different philosophical and spiritual traditions.Theories of this kind become intellectually problematic at this point, because they dissolve ordinary subject-object distinctions and causal relationships.Therefore, many Eastern traditions have developed contemplative techniques, such as Meditation, to give the observer a direct or "felt" experience of "bundled" reality.This semi-experiential kind of bundle theory is closely connected with particular forms of mysticism, not all of them Eastern in origin.This sort of thinking has also been referred to as "relational essentialism"--an object's essence is not a property of itself (as in conventional essentialism, but derived only from it's relationships with other things.Thus, an individual person is understood as a series of dynamic relationships stitched together by a sense of continuity or awareness through time.Using the examples provide above, if you are looking at an apple, the concepts of "apple" as well as any other property you percieve (size, shape, colour, taste, mass, etc