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Originally Posted by nailer
Isn't one of the most ancient words for God essentially Nothing?
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The old masters of Zen very often used to call this "God"
it, just
it.
See for example the "Blue Cliff Record".
And Lao-Tzu expresses it this way:
"The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. Conceived of as having no name, it is the Orginator of heaven and earth, conceived of as having a name it is the Mother [God; HK] of all things.
Always without desire we must be found
If its deep Mystery we would be sound
But with desire always within us be
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see
Under these two aspects, it is really the same; but as development takes place,
it receives the different names. Together we call them the Mystery, where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful."
(Translated by James Legge, 1891)