Because the object of following the Five Fold Way is to achieve Nirvana, which is NOT the same as the Beatific Vision but something one might call “the great Silence.” Or you might call it the “Big Freeze,” because it represents the end of all motion. God is not there, Nothing is there. There is no there.
>> God is not there, Nothing is there. There is no there.
Sounds a lot like the “outer darkness”.
I don’t want to be there. I want to spend eternity in the Light.
Good answer. Could one be a Catholic Confucian? I think so.
I should add that many Christian mystics came to a similar place. So, I’m not so sure you couldn’t have something like “the Tao that can be spoken isn’t the eternal Tao” generally reconciling with Christian mysticism.