March 27th, 2025
Pen-chi ching (7th c)
“Mystery” refers to that which is both profound and distant, and it also means non-attachment. It is called the most profound and the most distant, free of both attachments and entanglement.
Since there is no attachment to being, there is also no attachment of non-being. And since there is no attachment to attachment, there is also no attachment to non attachment.
The hundred negations and the four propositions all cease to be objects of attachment, and thus it is called the twofold mystery.
