[Dr. Matthysse said] he thought that at the end of the chain of symbols and equations there was nothing. But Buddhist philosophy would never agree with that. There is no way that this is nothing. We are simply not nothing. . . . What we are is, to be more precise, something that, when we try to pin down what it is, appears to be nothing; yet when we do not try to pin down what it is, looks very much like something. And that is a way of saying that what we are is conventionally, or relatively, existing somethings, not absolutely existing somethings.
p. 60
Robert A. F. Thurman "Tibetan Psychology: Sophisticated Software for the Human Brain"
MindScience: An East-West Dialog
Wisdom Books, 1994
Dr. Matthysse is a psychobiologist at Harvard who applies mathematical models to brain biology.

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