Dualism or non-dualism

Zen maintains a stance of “not one” and “not two,” that is “a position-less position.”

• “not two” means negating the dualistic stance that divides the whole into two parts.
• “not one” means negating the non-dualistic stance occurring when the Zen practitioner dwells in the whole as one, while suspending judgment in meditation. 
• the free, bilateral movement between “not one” and “not two” characterises Zen’s achievement of a personhood with a third perspective that cannot, however, be confined to either dualism or non-dualism, neither “not one” nor “not two”.