The end of words and views is what is meant by the scriptural saying, "The path of verbalization ends, the course of mind dies out." That is, in respect to these two aspects, emptiness and existence, the end of words and views means to leave all realms of verbal discussion and mental activity. There is only one true thusness and the knowledge of true thusness. Why? Because existence and emptiness merge completely, cancel each other, and transcend all characteristics. Because whatever thoughts are stirred, all is thus. Because ultimately there is no subject or object to be "this and that." Because thusness alone is left—manifest and unhindered by defilement. Scripture says, "Only thusness as such and the knowledge of thusness as such alone subsist" and so on.
Scripture also says, "All things are of the character of extinction and cannot be expressed in words."
Scripture also says, "Reality is beyond all contemplative practices."
Scripture also says, "If you understand real truth, there is no enlightenment."
~Thomas Cleary, in Entry Into the Inconceivable
Note: Thusness (or Tathata) has a more 'positive' connotation than emptiness (sunyata). It refers to the eternal nature of reality that is "ever thus" or "just so" free of all conceptual elaborations, free from subject-object distinction.
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