Suchness neither belongs to knowing nor to not-knowing

Chan Master Huangbo said: “法本不有，莫作无见，法本不无，莫作有见，有之于无，尽是情见。”

Within the mind of emptiness (śūnyatā), not a single dharma exists, yet one must not take it to be nonexistent. The true suchness mind is not nonexistent; He truly exists, and therefore He is called the true mind/mind of suchness. But one must not think that He has any mark or any dharma. Regardless of whether we take true suchness to be existent or nonexistent, or the myriad dharmas to be real or false, all these views are the opinions of our mind consciousness. The mind consciousness is a deluded mind, so all such views are sentimental views, not the view of true suchness. True suchness has no view and no knowing, yet there is not a single dharma that He does not know, nor is there any dharma that can exist apart from Him. Therefore, knowing is deluded awareness, and not knowing is the indeterminate (avyākṛta). True suchness neither belongs to knowing nor to not-knowing.