A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
Bsm. regards Truth as in Non-duality, and thus beyond the condition of the opposites.
Any statement, therefore, is only partially true, its opposite being also partially true. Only in paradox, therefore, taken to its limits, can Truth be, however inadequately, expressed. In Zen teaching it is taught that A is A because A is not-A. (See Zen Logic.) Or, in the words of a Zen master, ‘If you have a staff I will give you one; if you have not, I will take it away’.
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