Chinese Attitudes Toward Death

          In "The Sacred Art of Dying", chapter 6 - Chinese Attitudes Toward Death, Kenneth Kramer explains how the Chinese people view death and how they have related it to the world around them since the beginning of their people.
         The chapter begins with a big confusing paragraph about the Chinese belief of creation.
         "There is a not yet beginning. There is not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to a beginning. There is being. There is non-being. There's not yet beginning to a non-being. There is not yet beginning to be a not yet beginning to be a non-being. Suddenly there is it being and non-being. But between this being and non-being, I don't really know which is being in it which is non-being. Now I have just said something. But I don't know whether what I have said has really said something or whether it hasn't said something."
         As I said, this is a large and confusing paragraph that takes time to understand. The way I interpreted it was that the being and non-being are life and death, and they coincide with one another. In the paragraph it states, " But between this being and non-being, I don't really know which is being in it which is non-being". I believe the philosopher here is unsure which he is experiencing at the moment, life or death. He just knows he must experience one to experience the other.