Until you have grasped this fact, your position is simply untenable.

"Common sense is revolted by the above assertion that what is, is not, what is not, is, but in actual practice it is found to be the only valid one.

"The story of the monk who was praised for bringing a basket to catch the drips from a leaking roof illustrated this identity of what is and what is not. A bucket or a basket, there is no difference.

"One man's meat is another man's poison. A leaf of grass is a six-foot golden Buddha. Life is a perpetual dying. And if you keep to the so-called commonsense point of view (which is more elastic than supposed) you will find that your hard and fast divisions between right and wrong, profit and loss, useful and harmful, are inapplicable to all your problems and indeed to every circumstance of life that is deeply felt and profoundly experienced."