There goes that rascally Wei Wu Wei again, using impeccable logic to annihilate (and then redeem) you and me and the entire universe:

“Objects…are only a surmise, for they have no demonstrable existence apart from the subject that cognises them.

“Since that subject itself is not sensorially cognisable except as an object, subject also is only a surmise.

“Since the factual existence of neither subject nor object can be demonstrated, existence is no more than a conceptual assumption, which, metaphysically, is inacceptable.

“There is, therefore, no valid evidence for the existence of a world external to the consciousness of sentient beings, which external world is therefore seen to be nothing but the cognisers of it, that is—sentient being themselves.

“But there can be no factual evidence for the existence of sentient beings, either as subject or as object, who therefore are merely a conceptual assumption on the part of the consciousness in which they are cognised.

“It follows that ‘consciousness’ also can only be a conceptual assumption without demonstrable existence…

“[C]onsciousness may be regarded as the manifested aspect of the unmanifested or non-manifestation, which is the nearest it seems possible to go towards expressing in a concept that which by definition is inconceivable…

“All that we can say about this which we are, which to us must be objectified as ‘it’ in order that we may speak of it at all, is to regard ‘it’ as the noumenon of phenomena, but, since neither of these exists objectively, phenomenally regarded it may be understood as the ultimate absence from which all presence comes to appear.

“But consciousness or ‘Mind”, does not ‘project’ the phenomenal universe: ‘it’ IS the phenomenal universe which is manifested as itself…

“This-Which-Is, then, which cannot be subject or object, which cannot be named or thought, and the realisation of which is the ultimate awakening, can only be indicated in such a phrase as [this]: 'I am not, but the apparent universe is my Self.’”

—Wei Wu Wei, “‘I Am Not, but the Universe Is My Self’ (Shit-t’ou, 700-790): Logical Analysis of This Intuition,” The Mountain Path 1, no. 1 (1964): 44.