This “non-being” or “nothingness” may have been the mu that is so central in Japanese Zen and is often understood in the sense of Mahayana “emptiness”. The ‘Heart Sutra’ terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Heart-Sutra.pdf a text that even many Japanese laypersons know by heart, explains for example
“All dharmas are marked with emptiness…in emptiness there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness…. There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path. There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment. ~ Page 27
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Dinesh said:
“All dharmas are marked with emptiness…in emptiness there is no form nor feeling, nor perception, nor impulse, nor consciousness…. There is no decay and death, no extinction of decay and death. There is no suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path. There is no cognition, no attainment and no non-attainment. ~ Page 27