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Compare above, at the end of the very first section commenting on the title, where it says: "... the title as a whole speaks to the setting itself, its taking place before, if possible, the usual dichotomies set in, before we begin to build walls between this and that, ... between body and brain, between bodies and being etc." And perhaps, since we have already referred to the exacting footnotes of Dr. Guenther's, from his work on Saraha (above, under the heading of Excursion), these lines from page 22 may also be worth looking at: "The idea of treating mind as a physical phenomenon presents considerable difficulties to Western thinking because of a deeply ingrained dualism that pits the psychic/mental against the physical/material. In Buddhist thought body, speech and mind represent our 'physical' side, while 'pleasure' (bde-ba), 'luminosity' (gsal-ba), and 'undividedness by concepts' (mi-rtog-pa) represent our 'psychic' side. The idea of degrees of intensity and density reflects a dynamic or 'process' mode of thought. Even among the Buddhists, of course, there were those who persisted in thinking of the universe as a static entity...."

And again, p. 35, the footnote: "In Buddhist thought, causality has generally been conceived of in terms of webs or networks of relationships. The idea of a chain of links, as seen in Westerns thought, is considered to be a secondary and rationalistic reduction of the way reality actually unfolds in experience. For a modern Western view of causality as a complex of vectors moving along in time and space, see for example Calvin O. Schrag, Experience and Being (Evanstone: Northwestern University Press, 1969), 82-89."