Huai Nan Zi Book 2: Beginning of Reality
"The creating of the universe had a start, but there was another period that existed before this start took place; before this period that existed before the start took place, there was another period of time as well; there was a period of "being"; before this period of "being", there was another period of "not-being"; and before this period of "not-being", there was another period that existed before the period of "not-being" took place; and before this period, another period also existed."
It is an interesting chapter of Huai Nan Zi discussing about the period of the creation of universe and the periods before. However, isn't that an endless loop if we continue to refer to the before periods or it stops at "before before not-being"?
How would you understand by the above coded statement?
it is better to understand it in the following way.
When this is(this being) -that is there(that being)
When this is not (non existence of this being)-that is not(non existence of that being)
This arises(this being arises) -that arises (that being arises)
This ceases(this being ceases)- that ceases(that being ceases)
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