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Must even the highest concept be let go?
Direct answer
Yes. At least according to the movement of Zai and Sheng themselves, neither “Zai” nor “Sheng” can be re-made into an object that must be grasped at the end. Once a concept is declared to be the absolute endpoint, forever irrevocable, it easily turns from a tool that points to the fundamental into a new entity. The direction of the books is this: after the concept has brought you there, the concept itself also enters the becoming it describes.
Further explanation
Therefore “Sheng” is not used to replace “Dao,” “emptiness,” or “consciousness” as a new, even higher divine name. To say “Becoming Is Becoming” is precisely to stop the further question “is there something else behind Sheng?”. In the end one does not arrive at the most powerful noun, but stops treating nouns as the fundamental itself.
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Conclusions that must not be drawn
It must not be understood as a ban on language, on thinking, or on logic.
Related phrasings
Must even the highest truth be let go?Can one cling to an ultimate concept?Must even “Dao / emptiness / Sheng” be let go?
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