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title: "Must even the highest concept be let go?"
type: "question"
group: "Ultimate Questions"
thought: "Zai-Sheng Thought"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://tongzai.space/en/questions/must-the-highest-concept-be-released/"
---
# 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.

## Core concepts

- Becoming Is Becoming
- Becoming Without Begetting
- Becoming-Becoming-Becoming

## Primary sources

Sheng, Chapter 1, §1 Becoming Is Becoming; Chapter 9, §2 Becoming Without Begetting; §3 Becoming-Becoming-Becoming

## Conclusions that must not be drawn

It must not be understood as a ban on language, on thinking, or on logic.

## Citation

Wenzi｜Zai / Sheng｜chapter/section｜Tongzai Space｜canonical URL