Research Projects

This work explores the possibility that mind, while ever-present, cannot be grasped as an object of thought. Through a non-dual framework, it examines Awakening not as an attained state, but as a ground of awareness within which cognition itself unfolds. By reinterpreting ignorance, method, and realization as condition-dependent structures, the inquiry seeks to clarify the limits of conceptual knowledge and the conditions under which clarity discloses itself.

What does it mean to think—and can thought ever arise independently? This study proposes the Principle of Dependent Origination of Thought, arguing that cognition, creativity, and invention do not emerge from an autonomous mind, but from interdependent conditions. Drawing on Buddhist philosophy and modern epistemology, it reinterprets thinking as a process of relational reconfiguration rather than creation ex nihilo. In doing so, it challenges the myth of absolute originality and invites a more humble, ecological, and contemplative understanding of human intelligence.