The Void as ‘Not-Is’ – Dual

"A person may say: 'The Void is, also, both the eternal and the non-eternal'. This is at odds with reason. A person may say that things with common parts join up. The case is not so. Why not? The Void is all-pervading. If it joins up with what is created, what is created should also become all-pervading. If it pervades, everything must be pervading. If everything is all-pervading, everything can be joined into one. We cannot say that can exist both joining and non-joining. A person may say: ‘That which has once joined, joins up again, as in the case of two fingers which meet'. But this is not so. Why not? The joining cannot precede. The joining comes about later. If what did not exist before comes about, this is nothing more than the non-eternal. Therefore, we cannot say: 'The Void is what already was joined and [now] joins’. What one obtains in the world is what which did not exist before, but comes about later. This is as with a thing that has no eternity. If the Void stands in a thing like the fruit in a vessel, if so, it must also be non-eternal. A person may say that if the Void stands in a thing, it is like the fruit in a vessel. But this is not so. Why not? Where the Void in question could exist, not having the vessel at hands? If there is any place [for it] to exist, the Void would have to be many. If many, how could we say eternal, one, and all-pervading? If the Void exists in places outside of the Void, then a thing could well subsist without the Void. So, know that there can be no such thing (dual) as (being) the Void."

Read More on the Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 42 - On Bodhisattva Kasyapa 3.

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