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<aside> 📌 THE IDEA OF MU
The Indian philosopher Nagarjuna was the most innovative Buddhist thinker after Buddha. IN the early 2nd century A.D., he systematized traditional thinking about the illusory nature of perceived reality. This led followers over the next couple of hundred years to question even the reality - or at least, the individuality - of the doubting mind.
Buddha-nature, the perfection of being at which Buddhist meditation aimed, was the recognition of non-being, immersion in a self-descriptive “void.” Enlightenment is therefore literally inexplicable. This was the doctrine of Bodhidarma, who arrived in China in the early 6th century AD and founded the tradition now generally known by its Japanese name, Zen. A 12th century Japanese definition called it, “a special transmission outside the scriptures, not founded on words or letters, which allows one to penetrate the nature of things by pointing directly to the mind.”
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International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism at Hanazono Universitity
**Plum Village, Thich Nhat Han**