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Presence and Absence as the Twin Gates

In every great spiritual tradition, reality resists capture by categories. Language attempts to fix what forever slips through its net, and the mind, which depends on conceptual divisions, cannot help but organize experience into opposites: light and dark, fullness and emptiness, presence and absence. Yet when seekers approach the Absolute, they find themselves confronted with the inadequacy of such pairs. Still, paradoxically, these very categories—presence and absence—become indispensable markers, twin gates through which thought and practice must pass before they are transcended. read more