The Zen of Advaita - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

Once Koans are de-labeled andde-framed and descriptions orabstractions are removed, theunderlying “reality”, the no voidvoid, appears to appear.Give up naming and describing.Break the language barrierExampleZen Koan: “What is the meaning ofthe founder (Bodhidharma) comingfrom the west?”When we give up meaning, namingand describing there is nomeaning.All states, stages, waves, andstations, since they containwords, yield the understanding andexperience that something actuallyis.In 1973, I was living in LosAngeles and I read a book, whichtoday I cannot recall. What Ido remember is a very amazingstatement that went somethinglike this, “when you realizethat something is nothing andnothing is something you will haverealized”.100