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| | Mysticism Without Transcendence: Reflections on Liberation and Emptiness - Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | It does not mean the literal absence of transcendence; rather it refers to the normative thesis, characteristic of the Zen tradition, that what might be termed true transcendence is the transcendence of transcendence, which implies in turn that where transcendence has not been transcended, there is no real transcendence at all. |
 | | True transcendence can neither be understood in terms of anything else nor in terms of itself the former because it cannot contain any trace of the relative, the latter because it is, like all things, empty or devoid of self-nature. |
 | | From a Zen point of view, transcendence, as the term is usually used, would refer to something relative; but the Zen insistence is on the radically absolute character of transcendence. |
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