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title: "If even the highest concept and the observer are withdrawn, what is left in the end?"
type: "question"
group: "Ultimate Questions"
thought: "Zai-Sheng Thought"
language: "en"
canonical: "https://tongzai.space/en/questions/what-remains-at-the-end/"
---
# If even the highest concept and the observer are withdrawn, what is left in the end?

## Direct answer

If one must answer in a single sentence: Sheng would say that what remains is not a new “thing,” but that Sheng is still becoming. The observer can be pressed with questions, concepts can be withdrawn, and even the name “Sheng” cannot be grasped as a final entity; but withdrawing these ways of explaining does not thereby stop the happening itself.

## Further explanation

So the endpoint is not “at last finding the true X,” but seeing this: you kept wanting to find a final support behind the becoming, and the book finally lets go of that very move as well. It is not nothingness, but no longer fixing the root into an object.

## Core concepts

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

## Primary sources

Sheng, Chapter 9; Chapter 1, §1 Becoming Is Becoming

## Conclusions that must not be drawn

It must not be written as “in the end there is nothing at all,” nor surreptitiously replaced with “in the end only pure consciousness remains.”

## Citation

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