The Sum of Awe
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noth·ing
/ˈnəTHiNG/
pronoun
Nothing, as a literal concept, is the lack of something. You cannot portray nothing in physical reality because it simply isn't there. Nothing is a personified form of something that doesn't exist, but if that's all nothing is, then how can 'nothing' be said to exist?
And if nothing doesn't exist, what is death? It can't be oblivion, which would be nothing. And the idea of an afterlife? That's a hell of a claim. At least 'nothing' can be represented mathematically, but an afterlife? The only way that's been ventured to us is through fables and claims - all of which could be lies. Besides, we already know that brain damage can cause unconsciousness or affect our consciousness in certain ways; therefore it seems logical to me that the death of the brain would follow with the death of our consciousness.
So, then, assuming we do not go anywhere when we die and then, based on my proposition that 'nothing' doesn't exist - what is left? That death is an illusion. If there is no 'nothing', and there can never be 'nothing', there is not a thing that truly ever dies and "disperses into" (for the lack of a better phrase) nothing - anything that can be said to die is an illusion, a falsehood. This clump of matter and mind that you, through your illusory mind, labeled as (Your Name) is impermanent only because it's an idea.
Ideas hold no concrete reality to begin with, they were already 'nothing', and thus they can die and become lost in transition. The real you: the self-awareness, or perhaps even beneath that, is everlasting. It is the universe observing itself, a panpsychic-like consciousness. The fact that you have been illusioned into thinking you're (Your Name) and that you have an ego is strong evidence that the universe does look in on itself and can be illusioned. It's strong evidence, in my opinion, that the universe has an overarching consciousness that we all call 'I'.
This applies to everything in the universe. Ice 'dies' when it becomes water, a phone 'dies' when it is smashed to pieces, planets 'die' when they are consumed by the star it revolved around... but these are all just formations, formations defined by minds that are illusioned by separateness.
From all of this I gather that the ONE and ONLY thing that exists is Change; pure, formless Change always labeling itself 10,000 times over. I gather that this Change is alive in some way and it's at the root of all conscious beings.
/ˈnəTHiNG/
pronoun
not anything; no single thing.
"I said nothing"
Similar:
not a thing
not a single thing
not anything
nothing at all
nil
zero
Nothing, as a literal concept, is the lack of something. You cannot portray nothing in physical reality because it simply isn't there. Nothing is a personified form of something that doesn't exist, but if that's all nothing is, then how can 'nothing' be said to exist?
And if nothing doesn't exist, what is death? It can't be oblivion, which would be nothing. And the idea of an afterlife? That's a hell of a claim. At least 'nothing' can be represented mathematically, but an afterlife? The only way that's been ventured to us is through fables and claims - all of which could be lies. Besides, we already know that brain damage can cause unconsciousness or affect our consciousness in certain ways; therefore it seems logical to me that the death of the brain would follow with the death of our consciousness.
So, then, assuming we do not go anywhere when we die and then, based on my proposition that 'nothing' doesn't exist - what is left? That death is an illusion. If there is no 'nothing', and there can never be 'nothing', there is not a thing that truly ever dies and "disperses into" (for the lack of a better phrase) nothing - anything that can be said to die is an illusion, a falsehood. This clump of matter and mind that you, through your illusory mind, labeled as (Your Name) is impermanent only because it's an idea.
Ideas hold no concrete reality to begin with, they were already 'nothing', and thus they can die and become lost in transition. The real you: the self-awareness, or perhaps even beneath that, is everlasting. It is the universe observing itself, a panpsychic-like consciousness. The fact that you have been illusioned into thinking you're (Your Name) and that you have an ego is strong evidence that the universe does look in on itself and can be illusioned. It's strong evidence, in my opinion, that the universe has an overarching consciousness that we all call 'I'.
This applies to everything in the universe. Ice 'dies' when it becomes water, a phone 'dies' when it is smashed to pieces, planets 'die' when they are consumed by the star it revolved around... but these are all just formations, formations defined by minds that are illusioned by separateness.
From all of this I gather that the ONE and ONLY thing that exists is Change; pure, formless Change always labeling itself 10,000 times over. I gather that this Change is alive in some way and it's at the root of all conscious beings.
