Wednesday, 31 August 2011

23. Analysing the Nothing.


Nothing simply means, not existing in the way, existence is supposed to mean, that something exist, in all state of our being. We can say, not perceivable as a sensation that can transpose nothing to be an objective something physically or mentally. Its not only an absence but also absence even as a thought. A double absence.

Form to Nothing is an analogy like flame to a fire. Heat is the energy itself or source that appears as a flame. So life is the source itself that appears as a 'form'. By itself, form is just a shape of 'life'. Life by itself is not perceivable or is 'nothing' as perceivable, other than as an expression in perception as appearance. it has no objective attributes or qualities except as in 'thought'. The subjective nature of all objects is life and the objective nature of all objects is life, appearing so and believed to be 'real objective' in thought. So, being nothing by itself, appears as forms and 'things or events' mentally. So source of all forms is a mental material or dream material or nothing, but has the capacity to look like or appear as real persons, plants, buffaloes etc.

For example, we experience a dream and wake up. Then we are sure that the contents of the dream, did not exist as it would mean, about existence in a matter of fact. We are not able to even have a trace of it, in factuality. So content of dreams do not exist. They are made up of non matter. We had the experience of reality in the dream, but the entire content, doesn't exist, in waking state. However its only a memory, occurring ‘now’ about the existence of a dream ‘before’ that did not exist anywhere factually.

Can we guarantee that the so called physical matters of waking state exist? What constitutes to the reality of the objects is only by our experience of it. In the deepest sense, its is only its knowing in shape and form and identifying in separation by projecting our knowledge onto the form, that brings about an apparent reality to form. We believe that objects to forms are real and thereby experience them as or knowledge of them. So we experience our own condition and not ‘it’ per say. It’s a game we play, so that this subjective appearance becomes an objective world. Or else, all would appear like to be ‘Unreal’ and dream like.

When we mean, something exist, say a tree, we imagine that firstly it is a tree and secondly, it can exist even in your absence. Did the world exist, before we were born, as our experience? No. We have no such experience. Will it exist, after our death?, at least this will not be our experience. So the world is given its existential status by our presence. Our presence is what makes the world present, or to exist. Such a presence is made of knowing material, that is not of matter, that is ‘content’ to knowing, as we know matter to be. Then what is it? Its 'nothing' capable of being the world, that apparently seems to exist. 

Nothing, is the source. Its the aliveness, that prevails, even in absence of content to our experience. We can know the absence and presence of things or matter. Every day, we can know our absence as in waking state, in the dream state and so on and One day, we will know, that the ‘we’ we think we are, isn’t an entity or a existence in separation. It ‘in’ formed, by ‘thinking’ or a product of thinking that creates a separate me in here and an objective world out there.

We think we are. God exists. We think, the is content ot knowing, but its all knowing of content. That should be the correct statement. May be Socrates had this in mind and made a grammar mistake, while he wrote, ‘I think, therefore ,I am.Isness is the property that 'Nothing' exhibits in manifestation as the world. There is an isness of the world, which is just the knowing of creation. We ‘think’ it into existence. Such isness or knowing capacity, is what ‘I’ am.

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