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Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/14kisif/foyan_the_presence_of_the_body_and_mind
Post Summary:
Your body is not there, yet not nothing. It's presence is the presence of the body in the mind; so it has never been there. Its nothingness is the absence of the body in the mind; so it has never been nothing.
Do you understand? If you go on to talk of mind, it too is neither something nor nothing; ultimately it is not you. The idea of something originally there now being absent, and the idea of something originally not there now being present, are views of nihilism and and eternalism.
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