Futility of speech which is the external actualization of thought



When can it be said that something exists?

When it is known to have qualities and duration.

One can then say, "X exists" whatever X is, a person, love, hate, quantum theory.

Anything that can be said not to exist at a point in time when those qualities having duration are no longer in that stable configuration.

Even "existence" will not always exist - because the one deciding that things exist/don't exist ..... won't always be around.

At that point, does this one......deciding on things.......not exist?

So, what is beyond existence and non-existence?

(Aka the famous  Zen prattling:  What was your original face, before your parents conceived you?)

One clear, simple way to answer this is ........that which has no qualities, including the quality of duration.
And since no-quality is a quality, no duration is durational.......that which is the absence of qualifications and the absence of this very absence of qualities.


It is this impossibility of saying which gets revealed in Zen stories, and through objects who spoke on the utter futility of speech
which is only the external actualization of thought.