The Foundation Paradox
Looking at this rich philosophical content, I need to distill the most profound insight that challenges conventional approaches to understanding reality.
The deepest truths emerge not from grasping after certainty, but from releasing our need to possess any single account of reality as complete. Fazang understood that every attempt to fix reality's fundamental structure springs from attachment—the very attachment that blinds us to what we seek to understand.
When we declare particles most fundamental, or consciousness, or God, we mistake our explanatory tools for the territory itself. Reality's structure becomes visible only when we learn to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously without collapsing them into one "correct" view. This isn't relativism but its opposite: a recognition that truth transcends our partial glimpses of it.
The paradox cuts deep—only by abandoning the quest for absolute foundations do we glimpse what might actually be foundational.