There is always paradox in philosophical study. It cannot be helped. And there is truth, you know. Where there is paradox there is truth if you have eyes to see [laughs]. But as long as you are confined to philosophical study, you have no eyes to see through paradoxical statements. Philosophy is good because it is paradoxical. So, we Buddhists use paradoxical expressions. It should be paradoxical, so we apply paradoxical expressions as philosophers do. And we do not think that is paradoxical.
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