This chapter contains more about selflessness and not grasping at anything, including the goal of enlightenment, about how all concepts are fluid. I believe this is what is meant by `all dharmas are buddha-dharmas.' This reminds me of some ideas of Douglas Hofstadter about how consciousness is about leaping outside of rules, breaking out of conceptual boxes at all levels, getting out of ruts.
I couldn't help but fixate on the phrase 'No beginning, Subhuti, is the highest truth.' I don't understand why it is the highest truth. I will have to think about that.
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I think that 'no beginning is the highest truth,' is a reflection of the fact that everything is metamorphosis. No thing ever arises from nothing. Another way to say it is that the fundamental building blocks of reality are changes, and also relations, but not objects.
It reminds me a little bit of the "beginning" of the universe. That moment itself is impossible to conceive, because in the moment in which the universe was created, there was/is no time. Thus, no beginning.
At least, that's my poor understanding of it. I talked of this a bit w/ E. in the Rose Space Center.
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