The suchness of being implies a previously existing being and quiddity. |
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. |
The same relation may prevail between the suchness of willing in men and the realization of that willing. |
Without any apparent regard for the suchness of her environment, she sat down. |
However, how do four of these genera complete being, without nevertheless constituting the suchness of being? |
The noumenon, called suchness or absolute mind, does not exist in a pristine realm above and beyond phenomena, but expresses itself precisely as phenomena. |