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Can language state the ultimate truth?
Direct answer
Language can point, distinguish, and remind, but it cannot pack the whole of what is happening into a single definition. Zai and Sheng use language extensively, yet at the same time they keep reminding: the moment a word is taken for the thing itself, the living happening is written dead. The value of language is not to replace the real, but to bring a person to the place where they can see for themselves and experience for themselves.
Further explanation
So “unsayable” must not be mystified into a one-size-fits-all answer either. The books still establish a very clear conceptual skeleton of “Zai, Sheng, Fen, Jian, Shi, Xian”; it is only that this skeleton serves observation, rather than claiming that words have exhausted the whole of what is happening.
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Conclusions that must not be drawn
It must not use “language is limited” to evade all definition and argument, nor must it treat any vague statement as profound.
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