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Affirmations of the Absolute

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Vajragoni

Introduction: From Negation to Affirmation

Every path of negation eventually faces a threshold: once all illusions are stripped away, what remains? To stop at emptiness would risk nihilism, but both Unborn Mind Zen and Advaita Vedānta insist that the stripping away only clears the ground for what cannot be denied—the luminous Absolute. read more

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The Practice of Negation

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Vajragoni
  1. Introduction: The Method of Negation

Every authentic encounter with the Absolute begins not with affirmation, but with a stripping away. The ultimate reality—whether named as the Unborn, Brahman, or Absolute Nothingness—cannot be approached by concepts, images, or affirmations. To affirm is already to fall into limitation, for affirmation binds Being to a predicate, and predicates belong to the world of phenomena. Affirmation assumes distinction: this is true, that is false; this is real, that is not. But the Absolute stands prior to all distinctions, prior to the very duality of “is” and “is not.” read more

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