You and Nothingness Are One You are nothing , You may have your name and title , your property and bank account , you may have power and be famous ; but in spite of all these safeguards , you are as nothing . Your may be totally unaware of this emptiness , this nothingness , or you may simply not want to be aware of it ; but it is there , do what you will to avoid it . You may try to escape from it in devious way , through personal or collective violence , through individual or collective worship , through knowledge or amusement; but whether you are asleep or awake , it is always there . You can come upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being choicelessly aware of the escapes . You are not related to it as a separate , individual entity ; you are not the observer watching it ; without you , the thinker , the observer , it is not . You and nothingness are one ; you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon , not two separate processes . If you , the thinker , are afraid of it and approach it as something contrary and opposed to you , then any action you may take towards it must inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery . When there is the discovery , the experiencing of that nothingness as you , then fear---which exist only when the thinker is separate from his/her thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them---completely drops away ..
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:18:42 +0000
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