nothing is other than this*
► nothing doesn’t change
► nothing is perfect
► nothing depends on nothing
so it goes … with all that is,
with being as a whole … with this
Nothing is other than this. No one is. No one is another being.
only in the mind or by convention
are there any other beings
No other beings but countless changing forms – of being – arise and cease in endless flux.
only in the mind or by convention
is anything or anyone an entity
apart from being as a whole
▼
be aware of being as the whole
of what is, as all that is,
as the universe, as nature,
and be in awe of this: the whole
▲other than this, nothing is
Nothing is other than the whole. No one is.
No one you see is other than all that is made manifest.
You and I are nothing other than being as a whole, aware of being.
No being thought of as you can be as it is without being thought of as not you.
How then are you not that?
You are that.
No being thought of as me can be as it is without being thought of as not me.
How then am I not that?
I am that.*
Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Love says I am everything. Wisdom says I am nothing. Between the two my life flows.*
notes
*a link – see note … and words by Maurice Frydman*
this post – one view of what is – displaces the Substack placeholder Coming soon
a perennial question: Why is there something rather than nothing?* (!?)
nothing is the absolute truth (!*)
anything thought or said is not the absolute but a relative truth (!*) / at best
Shunryu Suzuki: “… it is necessary, absolutely necessary, to believe in nothing.” (!gb !*)
the three lines following the first in the post are the three marks of existence (!?)
nothing is perfect / ideal, complete, beyond change
so it goes … / with thanks to Kurt Vonnegut; from an April 2007 obit in the Guardian:
Vonnegut was a writer whose insistence on straight-talking – despite the superficial tricks and elaborations of his novels – became a central credo, a way of registering his anger and bewilderment at the harm visited upon innocents by nations, governments and corporations seeking to shore up their power through obfuscation and cant. If one of his aims was to provide a voice for those innocents, his method of making himself heard was both courageous and effective; he told us the hardest of truths, but in the gentlest, funniest and most amiable way he knew how.*
being as a whole / “being” – here and later – a mass noun (!?)
being as a whole / simply being and letting be: being well – and so may all be well*
Nothing is other … No one is another … / a call for a paradigm shift … see Daniel Quinn (!*)
countless changing forms … in endless flux / arising and ceasing, as Buddhists say (!?)*
no one need do more than need be done to simply be and let be
with choiceless awareness – open to direct experience (!*) – to see
anyone or anything thought of as an entity as nothing but the whole
ehipassiko / ehipaśyika; “which you can come and see” … ehi, paśya; “come, see” (!?)
/ anything said anywhere by anyone is merely asserted; it’s up to you to see what is true
/ what can be told and what can only be seen are the relative and absolute truths (!*)
pace* convention: to see anyone as an entity, see them as nothing other than the whole*
/ entities and identities (!*)
only in the mind … is anything or anyone an entity (!*)
being as a whole / in whatever passing forms arise and cease (!?)
be aware of being as the whole … and be in awe / pay attention, be astonished*
see also Einstein’s letter to a grieving father / and see especially further notes*
see collateral damage from a “a kind of optical delusion” of consciousness (Einstein)
nothing doesn’t change, so this post – nothing – has done and may yet / not a paradox*
only in the mind or by convention … / nothing is other than this, no one is
nothing is other than this … / nothing is not this
what is thought of as this cannot be as it is
without what is thought of as not this
nothing and this are two sides of the same coin: (!*)
they coexist as an entity, the whole
only in the mind or by convention
is any entity other than the whole
in loving acceptance of what is: the observer as the observed
the four stages of acceptance (J.B.S. Haldane)* are worth noting here:
1) This is worthless nonsense
2) This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view
3) This is true, but quite unimportant
4) I always said so