From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   (from chapter 9 of Wei Wu Wei's "The Tenth Man")   
      
   'SELF' and 'OTHER' are two empty concepts, each totally   
   lacking in verisimilitude, making sense only in their   
   interdependence as appearances in mind.   
      
   There is no self, there is no other-than-self. No thing   
   of the kind exists at all except as phenomenon.   
      
   All they are is what they are when they are not   
   anything. Objectively figments, they represent mind   
   cognising them within itself, and the cognising of them   
   is itself their phenomenal being.   
      
   To differentiate between them is absurd; to be identified   
   with one and to regard the other as independent is   
   ridiculous; to claim one and to reject the other is the   
   purblind nonsense of identification—for all each is, is   
   whatever I am, and whatever I am is all that anything is.   
      
   'That' is no other than 'this', and 'this' is no other   
   than either, for each is the cognising of both, and such   
   is what I am.   
      
   Self and other are images extended in conceptual space   
   and in conceptual time (duration), rendered apperceptible   
   as phenomena thereby, and their only being lies in their   
   interdependent apprehending.   
      
   To a sage, differentiation into self and other-than-self   
   is just the 'let's pretend' of children playing at being   
   Judy and Punch.   
      
   --   
   Oh, for the love of signature silliness....   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)