there is a transcendental need for reason as the vehicle of itself undermining

• the only way to understand that
  • reason isn't self-justifying
  • there is knowledge that transcends reason
• is to use reason to reach a stage where you think reason might need to be abandoned,
  • reason becomes most necessary
• Understanding the limits of reason requires reason
  • that is the essence of Madhyamaka

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• when reason is turned upon itself, when consciousness studies itself, that is where paradoxes emerge - at the limits of thought and the limits of conceptualization