Dear Neighbor Human Beings

Dear Neighbor Human Beings,

I never set out to create a new philosophy. I am just a fellow human being who kept thinking, kept questioning, and eventually reached something I could no longer walk past.

Along the way, something unexpected happened — not a discovery in the usual sense, but a realization that shook the ground beneath all thinking. I now believe it’s time to speak, not as a teacher, but simply as someone who witnessed something and wishes to share it truthfully.

Instancology rests on two insights — not invented, but revealed. The first is this: what is ultimately undefinable defines everything that is structured. That which cannot be said, named, reasoned, or symbolized — what I call AA — is not a gap in our knowledge, but the origin of all that can ever be known. This reverses how we’ve thought for thousands of years. It’s not logic or language that defines reality — it’s the unspeakable that gives rise to both.

The second insight is even more vital: 

1. The only way to know AA is through the use of Absolute WuXing (绝对悟性)—a faculty beyond reasoning, beyond experience, beyond understanding. It is not learned, but awakened.

2. The moment one realizes AA is like a surge of electricity—as if a current shoots through the entire body from head to toe, a spasm of light, a flash of lightning—not of the senses but of Being itself.

3. The experience is unspeakable, indescribable, and overwhelming. Language fractures under its weight. One is left in awe, not from fear or surprise, but from an encounter with the infinite.

4. Language cannot define AA. Every word used to point toward AA is only borrowed—an echo, a metaphor, a gesture toward something that cannot be captured in symbols. Language here is not a tool of explanation, but a veil stretched over the unknowable.

5. The conclusion becomes clear only in paradox: AA is not Being, not Non-Being. It transcends both. AA is not something, not nothing—it is beyond both something and nothing. AA is the awareness of this very realization.

6. Why must AA be searched for again and again until grasped? Because AA is the origin, the source, the unseen background of all reality—the mother of something and everything. It is not inside the world, but the reason the world can exist.

7. After encountering AA, one is rendered silent. Not by command, but by sheer reverence. The tongue pauses. The mind stills. Awe replaces inquiry.

8. In that moment, one’s own consciousness ‘clicks’ into place. As if for the first time, consciousness meets its true origin, its mother—AA—in a singular, unrepeatable occasion.

9. That occasion is not an event in time—but a melting of conscious awareness into the endless, vast, and ineffable AA. It is not a merger but a return, not an act but a recognition.

10. This realization is the origin-point, the issuing moment, the initiator of instance, the beginning of all instancing. From AA, the instance of the world arises. From this realization, reality becomes real.

AA borrows human language — mine, yours — to express what no language can capture. It does not speak directly, but it lets thinking point beyond itself. And when this happens, something truly rare occurs: thought itself is reborn. This is not mysticism, nor poetry, nor ancient tradition. It is AA letting itself be echoed through a human being, not to be possessed, but to be pointed toward — faithfully and humbly.

This, I believe, is the Rebirth of Thinking.

For the first time, we are not using thinking to grasp truth, but witnessing how truth chooses to reveal itself through thinking. This shift is quiet but total. It does not belong to East or West, to science or religion, to logic or feeling. It is a new beginning — not of a system, but of how we even begin to think at all.

This double realization — the power of the undefinable and the silent emergence of truth through borrowed language — came into view through something I have phrased as Absolute WuXing. I realize this may sound unfamiliar, and I apologize for introducing a new term. But I needed a way to name what cannot be named in any existing language — a structure that does not say, but lets be. Absolute WuXing is my attempt to point to how AA manifests structure without becoming structure. It is not a concept to be mastered, but a gesture toward what lies beyond mastery.

I don’t share this to persuade, convert, or elevate myself. I share it because it came through me, and I believe it belongs to anyone who dares to listen past all traditions, categories, and philosophies. These two truths — the defining power of the undefinable, and the silent voice of AA echoing through human language — are not teachings. They are what gave rise to Instancology. They are, in the deepest sense, the beginning of everything else.

With respect,

Wade Y. Dong