‘From the first Nothing is!’ declared Hui-neng, the pioneering 6th Chinese Patriarch of C’han-Zen.
Now, 1,300 years after Hui-neng, a new and widely- publicized survey was done among a group of distinguished Intellectuals. The question was solemnly titled:
[What is] ‘The Most Important Unresolved Question Of All Time’?
The prize went to Dr. Martin Heidegger for his celebrated query [itself, a variation on Aristotle’s ‘ti on’, literally, ‘What Is?’]:
‘Why is there Something and not Nothing?’
Jeez! You know, smart people say the darnedest things.
If the universe was entirely pink, I will never know it to be so.
There has to be a spot of not-pink somewhere so that I can confirm that the rest of the Universe is pink.
There has to be a minimum of two colors in order for me to see one color. Anything I see is only spotted in relationship to what it is not.
And one more thing. I need to be able stand apart from this pink and purple Universe in order to see that indeed the Universe is pink and purple.
I need, in other words, to be an ‘Independent Observer’. [‘Independence’ requires separation. A helpful redundancy, a shoulder-strap in addition to a seat-belt.]
When Professor Heidegger affirms a ‘Something’, he simultaneously affirms his presence as an ‘Independent [hence Separated] Observing Self’.
This is the basic idea underlying the widely-popular and much-mauled Principle of Co-Dependence, also called the ‘Doctrine of Dependent Designation’, a doctrine on the conditional nature of the Binary.
Not-Two 
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