Tathagata	~      One who went and saw and came back ~      Perpetual arrival	1.     What did the tathagata see? Seeing. Where did the tathagata come back from? Coming and going. Who did the tathagata become? Becoming. 2.     The wisdom of coming with coming and going with going. (Between coming and going wisdom’s still turning point.) 3.     The one who has arrived knowing coming is going and going coming. (The traveler’s greatest obstacle is the desire for destination.)
Tathata	~      Thisness ~      Hereness	1.       a.     De do do do, de da da da. 2.       a.     The world’s inviolable innocence. b.     The peace of whylessness. 3.       a.     That which goes without going. b.     Because reality has no style. c.     The immanence of everything and nothing in something. 4.       a.     There is no thus in this. b.     Blessed thereness. c.     The witness vanishes. d.

there’s always an underneath

Thales becomes Heraclitus becomes Parmenides becomes Democritus Empedocles Anaxagoras Plato Aristotle Averroës Scotus Descartes Leibniz Becher Dalton Mendeleev Maxwell Thomson Rutherford Bohr de Broglie/Schrödinger/Heisenberg Chao DeWitt Gell-Mann Nambu Starry Pulling Weaving Versing

Water Fire Being Atomos Four elements Seed Idea Cause and Motion Minima Haecceity Corpuscle Monad Phlogiston Atom Element Light Electron Nucleus Quantum Particle-wave Positron Ghost Quark and Gluon Strings Strings Strange Waves Universes

Trishna

~      Itching ~      Desire and conquer

1.     The short circuit of the self: Desire, ergo repetition, ergo desire. (The comforting familiarity of the discomfort of desiring.) 2.       a.     Desire’s paralogic: If A, then Z. b.     The contradiction of desire and the one who desires—the satisfaction of one entails the extinction of the other. 3.     Desire’s dream: to hallucinate reality.