What is nothingness
Why do you think that nothingness is just a void, or a pure black space with nothing in there? This is how a human being imagines “nothing”. This is not the case. Notice, it’s still something. You are not a human being; this is how it your “understanding” starts. I will use language here just to explain the concept. However, you cannot fathom it by the means of language.
When the observer takes a back seat in consciousness, and just observes the reality, the self of sense drowns in void, disappears. Try not to put labels and describe what you see. Language is not needed. What you will discover soon is that the stencil, or what you call individualized personality, will cease to exist. When there is no self, there is no one to register the reality. That’s a key moment. There is no cognition and description of what you see, smell, or hear. You do not need to close your eyes to think yourself out of reality; you actually do not even need to meditate for this. All you need to do is to stop naming the objects and phenomena you see – to stop creating the meaning of the experience. When this happens, experience is still there without a description, but at the same time it is not there either. So, we cannot call it “experience”. However, when there is no observer, you cannot register the reality. Drop the observer! The last step…to get what I am talking about.
This is how the illusion (maya) of the solid world has been creating “you” for a long time. It has been creating “you” through the stencil of the perceiver and the perception. By returning back seat into the seat of consciousness, when you drop all the notions, language, descriptions, you are disappearing. You do not need to close your eyes for this to happen, because even with your eyes closed, your mind still separates and divides between inner and outer, thoughts and void, cognition, feelings, and emotions. “You” are still there! Drop everything and get naked in front of the unknown. Don’t stop your thought process – no need even for that, let it be there. You do not know yet the true meaning behind the objects that you see. You really do not know who you are; everything that you know comes from language (reasoning, prior knowledge, and beliefs). What if you do not have language? Are you still your body or the holistic experience? Are you still separating and dividing between “mine” and “not mine”? No, when you drop language and knowledge, all you are left with is a holistic experience – “One” – a picture that contains everything, and your body is just another object on that canvas. You are not in your body. By slowly putting your attention back on awareness, by dropping even that!!! you begin to experience nothingness. Who said that nothing is empty? Actually, nothingness can contain all the elements of perceptions: sound and color, tactile senses. This is how illusion has been created, illusion that there is something there, when in fact there is not. You are walking on the bridge between dualities without realizing that wholeness is couched within nothingness, and nothingness contains and gives birth to everything. How? By giving experience some description. It is very simple, by reasoning…
It does not mean that everything that appears into Being from void is already there. What it means is that by changing the perception, you can realize, but only post factum, that everything is nothing. It only appears as is colors, sounds, senses, but everything is nothing in its core, and vice versa. You will ask: “How”? Very simple. When you drop the stencil of the perceiver and start having the experience of Being/Totality, without any cognition and linguistic recognitions. Who is there to acknowledge the factuality? Nobody, right? Nobody could say there is a tree, because “you” as the perceiver are NOT there. What is there then? It cannot be communicated, that is the trick…
Does it mean that the light was off, and everything zoomed in into the black dot? No. We do not need to switch the light off for existence to become nothing. All you need to do is to “think your way out” of existence as a human being. When there is no you, there is no world. Because “world” is just the linguistic description of your mind. There is no such thing as world, it is all a mental construct for you to see the plausible reality. Once you break the meaning of everything and drop all the notions, reality as you know it will cease to exist because you will take your illusory self out of the equation. Death is not real; this is literally how you die. Time only exists as a descriptive mechanism to make sense of the continuum from moment to moment, or a motion. Again, when you do not describe motion, you do not have time. Contraction and dilation of time only happens in your mind.
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