Before love and hate,
before fear and rejection
Ahead of those words is
Neither ….
Neither love nor hate, neither choice nor rejection.
This «neither » is not a negation, a fight against, a distanciation move :
It is absence,
It means « not to be found here »
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« Neither love nor hate, neither choice nor rejection. » is extracted from the Shin Jin Mei, Key text in the Zen Tradition.
©FJ Jan 2024
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Notes & Silence 
There seem to be two possible conclusions:
1. All is nothing
2. In unity, all extremes are encompassed and destroyed.
Perhaps these two are, actually, the same thing.
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I agree… they come down to the same thing.
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