My thoughts started with 'loneliness', journeying thru 'emptiness',finally ending with 'voidness'.So,that's what i am going to ponder about-nothing.I ve been thinking along these lines for quite some time....The nothingness which prevails over everything.... If one had come across zen philosophies(btw,i ve become a kind of zen fanatic in recent times..So,girls watch out...gift me a Zen book and i am yours all night),we can find a number of references about nothing.Nothingness(sunyata in Zen-similar to suniyam in tamil) forms the heart of zen where everything is perceived as nothing.Let's take a zen koan as example...
A monk asked Chao-chou, "Has the dog Buddha nature or not?" Chao-chou said, "Mu." (Mu in chinese is nothing)..
Take another one...
WHEN Yamaoka was a brash young student, he visited the master Dokuon. Wanting to impress the master, he said:
"There is no mind, there is no body, there is no Buddha. There is no better, there is no worse. There is no master and there is no student; there is no giving, there is no receiving. What we think we see and feel is not real. All that is real is Emptiness. None of these seeming things really exists."
Dokuon had been sitting quietly smoking his pipe, and saying nothing. Now he picked up his staff, and without warning gave Yamaoka a terrible whack. Yamaoka jumped up in anger.
"Since none of these things really exists," said Dokuon, "and all is Emptiness, where does your anger come from? Think about it."
Ya..They do sound crazy..but,that's wat koans are.. crazy puzzles to solve.. No one explains them..there is no answer to them..Each one sees them in their own view.. For some,they are blabberings of a drunkard..For some,they are fancy good-for-bumper-stickers-anecdotes which a fool might quote in his blog..But,to me personally,they reveal a lot about this Great Void...
Let's not astray into philosophical path and let's discuss it in a normal way..I ve presented my thoughts in form of question and answers
Does everyone feel empty,sometimes?not in the sense of sorrow,but just a feel they are a part of nothing?
A: I doubt.. Feeling a part of nothing,sounds a little sorrowful,even now..It has a traditional negative tag attached to it...at least in our culture..Many religions teach us that we should feel as if we are a part of the universe and everything in it and vice versa..that we are all connected... those kind of stuff..But, i ve seldom heard preachings about identifying oneself with Voidness.....The emptiness, in a sorrow context, can be something which everyone might be well acquainted with..but,the positive aspect of it, i really doubt....
How it might feel to embrace nothing?
A:Absolutely no idea.. I tried searching for this thing,but couldn't find any... But, obviously i don't think anyone would have maintained chronicles about their wisdom of nothing(probably this is the first :))... But, when i imagine how it might be, it appears that we might not feel anything about this embrace... Neither will we feel joy over our ultimate discovery of supreme truth nor will we be sad since we now have nothing within us... Life will be as it had been always... One wont even care about this acceptance..But, the way we look @ thing will def change... No positive thinking and no negative thinking..no optimism and no pessimism.Say No to both 'Yes' n 'No'... :)...
If there is no change cos of acceptance of nothing, what point does it make to accept it? I might very well dissuade and be my own, as before?
A:Exactly.That's the point, i was trying to make.. You accept or not, nothing will change.. Take some philosophy.. For Example, "Treat others as you want them to treat you".. Some might agree here..others might not..But, if you accept this stmt is right,then you will proceed to make some changes in your lifestyle so as to accommodate this philosophy.. try to become a follower of this statement(truth,philosophy..watever).. That changes something in you.. So, everytime u accept something and bring it into your life, we keep changing...Ultimately, every philosophy's aim is to make to follow something .. to lead you to a new path(might be good .. might be bad...)..But, the concept of nothing doesn't make you do it...You as as before..nothing changes(well,not exactly..but in a abstract sense,yeah..)
Aren't these kind of arguments just a way to prove one's point that acceptance of nothing is good? Many of them sounds crazy.It might be a philosophy worth nothing..
A:Well, it might be..I just trying to point out that the value of 'nothing' is very underestimated.... It might be both worthless and priceless...
Will it not preserve our spirit that we may live as we choose and free from bonds of fear? Or Will it banish us to a imaginary world,void of emotions and unfit for human life?
A:For this,i would really like to support the first part..But, i am not sure of that yet.. i have my apprehensions about that.. May be the final stage of nothingness will do more good than evil...But, guys, i am not oracle(actually i work in sql server :)) ....not able to look that far into the future.. But, why not try it out?
Are you still a virgin?
A:Well,it's hard to say...
So, sometimes, when u are free enuf(Software Professionals,read as:Monday to Friday 9.00 to 6.00 when you @ work), give some thoughts abt this voidness.. May be we can create an orkut group and discuss ant nothing..
As it is with my first post, If any you found this post as irrelevant and absoultely stupid,well Archimedes did run naked.........
