“People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness

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Japanese martial artist, writer, artist 1584–1645

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Then you will come to think of things in a wide sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.
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