One of the most influential responses to this seeming inconsistency was put forward by Zhiyi (538 597), one of the founding figures of Chinese Tiantai Buddhism, who forwarded a "three truths" approach that embraced such apparent opposites as existence and nonexistence, enlightenment and delusion, and the sacred and the profane as equal partners of the "Middle Way".
In this view the only goal is the one permanent and eternal principle: the One, God, brahman, which is totally opposite to phenomenal existence.
Instead, we should look at what has pushed rich and poor (or, more accurately, the rich and everyone else) to such opposite extremes of existence.
40, 65), which suggests not only the need to "return" to Dao, but also that the Daoist way of life would inevitably appear the very opposite of "normal" existence, and that it involves a complete revaluation of values.
If the nature of nothing entails its non-existence, the nature of its opposite, completely pure being, entails its real existence.
Together these selective environments could facilitate the origin and existence of opposite life-history tactics whose success would depend both on the current environment and the frequency of opposite tactic in the population.
What the people see must be the opposite of this grim existence.
A body of literature suggests attenuated neural and behavioural responses in active versus passive conditions, although recent studies have also demonstrated the opposite effect15,21,33,34,35, suggesting the existence of different modulation types in different brain regions.
Madonna's desire to find meaning through Kabbalah shows, says Eagleton, that "nobody is as otherworldly as the worldly"; she wouldn't believe that meaning resided in the opposite of her material existence if she was skint.
The essential decency I'd discovered in his private life (a soft-spoken, considerate existence, the opposite of his more hateful lyrics) seemed to have doused the rage his work flared from.
