So we can distinguish the arising—which is God, Buddha-nature, the absolute, just what is—from the world which is formed instantaneously, the other side of the arising. In fact, the two sides are one: the arising and what we call the world are not different. If we could really get this, we’d never again have any trouble in our lives, because it would be obvious that there is no past or future—and we’d see that all the stuff we worry about is nonsense.
