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suchness

n. (context philosophy chiefly Buddhism English) existence per se.

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Deepest Depth is the desire of all Form, which cannot itself be reached in the world of Form, but rather as the Emptiness of each and every Form: when all Forms are seen to be always already Formless, then dawns the Nondual empty Ground that is the Suchness and the Thusness of each and every display.

Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves, sufficient in their Suchness, not acting a part, not trying, insanely, to go it alone, in isolation from the Dharma-Body, in Luciferian defiance of the grace of God.

Because Emptiness was not a realm apart from or divorced from other realms, but rather was the reality or Suchness or Emptiness of all realms, then nirvana was not, indeed could not be, sought apart from the phenomenal world.

This categorical rejectionthe dialecticcreates an opening or clearing in awareness in which the primordial and unobstructed nature of the Real can shine forth nondualistically as the Suchness of all phenomena.

Even to me, for whom this is the very hearth of Hell—here, where the armies spawn who sack my kindred's habitation, and 'spoil us of our lives—even to me this is a mighty hall of wonder, and my every eye most avidly imbibes the Muchness and the Suchness of it all!