ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 focuses on Nāgārjuna’s philosophy of ‘emptiness’ of substantiality and of intrinsic meanings as the foundation and precursor to Zen Buddhist notions of ‘non-duality’. The ‘non-plurality of the world’, and the ‘non-difference of subject and object’ are shown to be inextricably co-determined by an embodied, participatory, “without-thinking”, active cognizance. Additionally, configurations of the potentiality of existence continuously subsisting substantial manifestation, and the ‘substantiality of constant change’ are shown to nullify orthodox body to mind dichotomies. Rather, they adhere to ‘connectionist’ and ‘systems’ theorems deferring to emergent non-discriminate properties.
