Bodies are born from the Quiet Void (śūnyatā) Like images in a mirror Once we realise this quintessential, illusory nothingness We will see Reality.

Philosophically conceived, man the perceiver is the intermediary between the self that has realised him and the image engendered within his culture. He functions in the same way as was traditionally held by the Chinese to be the rôle of the king (wáng: ), who was the intercessor between Heaven and Earth. Man now forms part of this trinityhe can entreat Nature, that is Earth, Heaven and their progeny, by himself; he equates with them, is of them, because he, too, is the result, the fruit, of their union.