Wei Wu Wei

3 � Inconceivable

THE SPACE-TIME, subject-object phenomenal universe is a manifestation of mind, of which day and sleep dreaming are examples in a second degree. The result of this individualisation process, based on seri-ality, which all degrees of dreamers know as “reality,” has no objective resemblance to that which causes it to appear, because that which causes it to appear has no objective qual-ity at all. Therefore that is totally inaccessible to any form of objec-tive cognition, let alone of description. The only words that can indicate it at all are This, Here, Now, and Am, and in a context which is entirely abstract. The negative method is provisional only; it turns from the positive to its counterpart, and then negates both. That wipes out everything objective and leaves an emptiness which rep-resents fullness, total absence which represents total pres-ence. Here the thinking (and not-thinking) process ends, and the absence itself of that IS the Inconceivable. Inconceivable for whoever attempts to conceive it. 

Dasein = Am-here

6 � This Phenomenal Absence

NOWHERE, WHERE I am an object, am I; nor where any part of “me” is an object is it part of me or is mine. Only here where I can see nothing (but the objective universe) am I— and I am only an absence objectively. When I realise that, I cease also to be an individual “I,” for anything individual is thereby an object. My objective absence is the presence of pure non-objectivity, which is just that. My only existence is non objective, as non-objectivity itself. I cannot be portrayed in any way, drawn, photographed or described. That which impersonally I am has no qualities or resemblance to an individual subject-object, which is purely conceptual.

Note: A “self,” an “ego,” any kind of separated personality or being, is an object. That is why nothing of the kind is—as the Dia-mond Sutra so repeatedly insists. My objective self only has a conceptual existence. Non-objectively I am the apparent universe. Identifying myself with my conceptual object is what constitutes bondage. Realising that my conceptual object only exists in so far as it and its subject are THIS phenomenal absence here and now—

"Seeing" oneself in the mirror is just as bad.