By rejecting both being and non-being, I illuminate the path in nirvana. Sometime after his death, in about 300 A.D., Nagarjuna's stream of thought took shape as the Sandhinirmocana Sutra, which is also regarded at the first scripture of the Consciousness Only school. An intermediate zone exists between good and evil, a zone that is neither. From now on, people will constantly be forced to choose new systems of values. Because of that, we will repeatedly find ourselves in an ambiguous situation in which it is impossible, at least from the present perspective, to make clear choices.
Action based on a simple yes-no dichotomy is no longer an adequate response to society's demands.
But compared to either yes or no, when thinking stops and becomes action, it is an extremely creative state. The principle of majority rule, the modus operandi of democracy, does not value vagueness. As such, it encourages the suppression of thought. But if an indeterminate category were allowed, people would be able to show that they wanted to think the issue over further. We can even conceive of cases in which the best answer to a question being voted on is, in fact, neither yes nor no.