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Eternal Nothingness
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So I have been thinking about this one a lot recently and it's something that always comes up when I trip, the fact that our true nature is eternal nothingness.  Most people can't wrap their head around this because they try to identify nothing with a concept essentially trying to make something out of nothing. 

When I think about the word nothing I realize it means no-thing therefore no things.  Our true nature of being is formless as the only thing that is constant is change.  When I think about this when I'm tripping it scares the shit out of me.  The fact that I will never find myself because nothing is there and never will be there. 

I sense western culture as a massive repression and escape from our true nature.  We identify so strongly with things and it is why there is such pain and suffering.  The death of a loved one can be a harsh reminder that our philosophy is totally wrong and what strong illusions we build for ourselves. 

Does anyone else ponder this kind of stuff?  It seems everything else is just an escape from our true selves.


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Re: Eternal Nothingness [Re: liberty hunter]
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liberty hunter said:
Does anyone else ponder this kind of stuff?


Yeah. Nietzsche. He dead though.

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Re: Eternal Nothingness [Re: liberty hunter]
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Voidness does not mean nothingness, but rather that all things lack intrinsic reality, intrinsic objectivity, intrinsic identity or intrinsic referentiality. Lacking such static essence or substance does not make them not exist--it makes them thoroughly relative.


The Heart Sutra
Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, meditating deeply on Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that the five aspects of human existence are empty, and so released himself from suffering. Answering the monk Sariputra, he said this:

Body is nothing more than emptiness,
emptiness is nothing more than body.
The body is exactly empty,
and emptiness is exactly body.
The other four aspects of human existence --
feeling, thought, will, and consciousness --
are likewise nothing more than emptiness,
and emptiness nothing more than they.

All things are empty:
Nothing is born, nothing dies,
nothing is pure, nothing is stained,
nothing increases and nothing decreases.

So, in emptiness, there is no body,
no feeling, no thought,
no will, no consciousness.
There are no eyes, no ears,
no nose, no tongue,
no body, no mind.
There is no seeing, no hearing,
no smelling, no tasting,
no touching, no imagining.
There is nothing seen, nor heard,
nor smelled, nor tasted,
nor touched, nor imagined.

There is no ignorance,
and no end to ignorance.
There is no old age and death,
and no end to old age and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,
no end to suffering, no path to follow.
There is no attainment of wisdom,
and no wisdom to attain.

The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and so with no delusions,
they feel no fear,
and have Nirvana here and now.

All the Buddhas,
past, present, and future,
rely on the Perfection of Wisdom,
and live in full enlightenment.

The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra.
It is the clearest mantra,
the highest mantra,
the mantra that removes all suffering.

This is truth that cannot be doubted.
Say it so:

Gaté gaté paragaté parasamgaté Bodhi! Svaha!

Which means...

Gone, gone, gone over, gone fully over. Awakened! So be it!


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