“The noumenon, called suchness or absolute mind, does not exist in a pristine realm above and beyond phenomena, but expresses itself precisely as phenomena.”

“However, how do four of these genera complete being, without nevertheless constituting the suchness of being?”

“That is to say, to become a Buddha, and the way of its being is designated by the term tathatā, suchness or a thing-event's being such that it is showing its primordial mode of being.”

“But granted that Plato does not accept the this-such distinction, why saddle him with the view that all things are thises, rather than all suches or perhaps even neither?”