The sound of one hand clapping

language is only a means to hint at the real.

thoughts are just words. there is a limit to thought. the "I" is only a dynamic function craving in incompleteness to grab desires and fears in order to differentiate itself from the whole. it is not important.

a man need not bind himself in chains that he himself holds.

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Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the fact. Now what do you wish to call this?"
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