SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY SIX
"The Way is perfect like unto vast space,
With nothing wanting, nothing superfluous:
It is indeed due to making choice
That its suchness is lost sight of."
When considering something analogous to the Way, Sōsan uses the perfection of vast space as his simile. Its vastness contains all - there really is no concept we can use to apprehend it intellectually, as any concept would naturally create its dualistic antithesis. This is why śūnyatā - emptiness or voidness - is so often used to describe this ontological state. There is no way to describe this - it has to be experienced. In this void - there is nothing wanting, and nothing superfluous. Vast emptiness...
As a matter of fact, the very act of trying to nail down its suchness by description or distinction that it is lost sight of. It requires openness and surrender to manifest. Through not-knowing, we merge with it.
