The principle of everything, must be indeterminate, because if it was determinate it would have certain qualities and those qualities would exclude others, which mean a principle of everything must be indeterminate, something indeterminate cannot create determinate things and therefore nothing...
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A Zen Master on, "There is No Self"
[The] Zen master asked the novice monk: “Tell me about your understanding of the Heart sutra.” The novice monk joined his palms and replied:
“I have understood that the five skandhas are empty. There are no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body or mind; there are no forms, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or objects of mind; the six consciousnesses do not exist, the eighteen realms of phenomena do not exist, the twelve links of dependent arising do not exist, and even wisdom and attainment do not exist.”
“Do you believe what it says?”
“Yes, I truly believe what it says.”
“Come closer to me,” the Zen master instructed the novice monk. When the novice monk drew near, the Zen master immediately used his thumb and index finger to pinch and twist the novice's nose.
In great agony, the novice cried out “Teacher! You're hurting me!”
The Zen master looked at the novice.
“Just now you said that the nose doesn't exist. But if the nose doesn't exist then what's hurting?”
The true nature of all phenomena is the nature of no being nor non-being, no birth and no death. The view of 'being' is one extreme view and the view of 'non-being' is another extreme view. It is because of this unskilfulness that the novice monk's nose is still sore.
