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[from Chan Magazine, Vol 35, #2, Spring 2015, p. 15]: . "Therefore, only when the mind that keeps grasping onto preceding thought comes to a full stop, then the non-dualistic unmoving True Mind can manifest." . Quoting Chan Master Sheng: ["In prajna, nothing is known, yet nothing is unknown". Ven Xing continues: If there is something to be known, then this knowing is confined and limited. Therefore, only knowing without any objects of knowing can truly exhibit "nothing is unknown". Similarly, the third state in the Silent Illumination practice is described as "without contacting things, it knows". What is means is that, as long as there are objects that can be ontacted by you, then what can be known is limited. It would not be "nothing is unknown" It would, indeed, not be True Knowing. [end quote by Venerable Guo Xing].
