Chinese Buddhist texts come with a copious amount of Taoist terminology. And many of these technical terms areantonyms, such as motion and rest, existence and inexistence, delusion and truth, and so on. However, there is unityand internal connections among those seemingly opposite concepts. According to Seng-chao, there is motion withinrest and rest within motion. The three temporal phases, the past, the present, and the future, are not flux and flowinglike a river. The entities of the world are not physical and tangible. All the intangible and the imperceptible alsodeserve a place in the world. The reason why common people confuse illusion with truth is that they have notattained sage-knowledge. And their ignorance of sage-knowledge destines them to live forever in suffering in thecircle of birth and life, which is also known as Samsara. Nirvana is the sole escape. To reach Nirvana, one isrequired to be enlightened with absolute truth.
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