03-09-2011, 12:00 AM
Nu Lang wrote:Mornings Son wrote:Nu Lang wrote: To have simply nothing is nothing at all.
who is left 'to have simply nothing'?
I'm saying that's not ever going to happen...that a 'who' will have nothing...starting to sound like Dr Seuss. Always for a who there will be something, otherwise, what the point? And not only that, but how would such who even know its exisitence if its nothing, absolutely nothing, has nothing, thinks nothing, sees nothing, feels nothing?
I think when Buddhist circles talk about this and insist upon this extreme state of being, they brush over the idea of what complete nothing would actaully be. Death. Death without the reflection of life to shine upon it is the unknowable. Some identity is needed to be aware, even if that identity is not very self-reflective. Ideally that's what we want anyway, a very minute amount of self-reflection so as to enjoy whats 'out there'.
How to name and describe what is outside concepts and seen by no-one?
Alas I lack skills to push this further.
who is left 'to have simply nothing'?
I'm saying that's not ever going to happen...that a 'who' will have nothing...starting to sound like Dr Seuss. Always for a who there will be something, otherwise, what the point? And not only that, but how would such who even know its exisitence if its nothing, absolutely nothing, has nothing, thinks nothing, sees nothing, feels nothing?
I think when Buddhist circles talk about this and insist upon this extreme state of being, they brush over the idea of what complete nothing would actaully be. Death. Death without the reflection of life to shine upon it is the unknowable. Some identity is needed to be aware, even if that identity is not very self-reflective. Ideally that's what we want anyway, a very minute amount of self-reflection so as to enjoy whats 'out there'.
How to name and describe what is outside concepts and seen by no-one?
Alas I lack skills to push this further.