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Sunyatatha: The void is a plenum.

From Wikipedia: A paradox is a statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition; or, it can be an apparent contradiction that actually expresses a non-dual truth. From Nagarjuna and The Limits of Thought Philosophy East & West, Vol. 53, No.1, 2003 To say this is conventional and this is ultimate is dualistic. To realize that there is no difference between the conventional and the ultimate is to enter the Dharma-door of nonduality, or, as the Heart Sutra puts it more famously, Form is empty; emptiness is form; form is not different from emptiness; emptiness is not different from form. Chapter 48, Hua Hu Ching The Secret Teachings of Lao Tzu Brian Walker, trans. Do you wish to free yourself of mental and emotional knots and become one with the Tao? If so, there are two paths available to you. The first is the path of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend your goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances. Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it. The second path is that of denial. Recognize that everything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth. Peel all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness. Though these paths are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same place: spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness. Once you arrive there, remember: it isn't necessary to struggle to maintain unity with it. All you have to do is participate in it. All things are devoid of independent existence. (Sunyata) All things manifest from the same Source. (Tathata) All things can be said to neither not exist nor to exist.

Sunyatatha is my attempt at comprehending the dualistic appearance of Reality. As indicated by the Sunya portion, Reality is Empty, but as indicated by the Tatha portion, Reality is Full. While this may seem to be contradictory, it is only so linguistically as the actual nature of Reality is not a choice between Sunyata and Tathata as the One True Story. There is truth in Sunyata and there is truth in Tathata but Truth can be found in neither story alone. All things are Empty - that does not mean they are False. All things are Full - that does not mean they are True. We can almost wrap our minds around Emptiness and Fullness but Reality is not subject to either gnowledge or knowledge alone. They are not independent of each other and cannot exist apart from the other. Yin/Emptiness/This is one aspect of Reality, Yang/Suchness/That is another aspect of Reality. Yin/Emptiness/This can be known, is true, but is not Real. Yang/Suchness/That can be known, is true, but is not Real. Tao is True and Real, but cannot be known in the same sense that we know One plus one equals two. There is no inherent Tathata, there is no inherent Sunyata. By inherent, I mean an independently existing reality. With the negation of inherency, contradiction is replaced with paradox. When one thinks contradiction, one is thinking dualistically, as in there are two distinct realities, one of which cannot be true. When one thinks paradox, one is thinking nondualistically, as in there is a unity that can be explained two ways, neither of which is true, in the absolute sense of the term. We make a major mistake in imaging dualism as contradiction; I submit the dualism should be imaged as paradox. The solution to the question of dualism is realizing the dualism is a logical paradox rather than an existential state of affairs. Consider the dualism of Self and Other, for example. If there was no you, how could it be said that I exist? On the same token, if there was no I, how could it be said that you exist?

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