I am an avid reader. I like to read
a lot. Presently I am reading books on Neuroscience, Spirituality, Self awareness.
I am also fond of looking for the book recommendations done by distinguished
personalities in various fields. My kindle is stocked with so many unread
books. My amazon wish list of books is pretty long. But every time I finish a
book, my thirst for knowledge is not satiated but it increases. What am I
missing? What the yet unpurchased book (which is in my wish list) will offer me?
I want to be better. Better than any one else. I would like to improve myself.
I feel incomplete. And I think I try to find that complete ness through books.
At the back of mind there is this constant desire that the next book I am going
to read will make me complete. But that never happens.
Where is this feeling of
incompleteness coming from? Is it acquired by me through my conditioning which
has happened consciously/ unconsciously while passing through life or am I born
with it? I see people around me who are
driven to achieve material success. They bask in the glory of material achievements,
be it bigger cars, nicer homes, exotic holidays, rare spirits or wines. Nothing
wrong in that. They are focused on one
thing after the other.
In my case I find that happens for
me in respect of books. I am really greedy about books. Put me in a bookshop
and I behave like a child in the toy shop. I enjoy them, browsing, reading. To get transformed. To become a
person who is calm and happy and contented. Is there an end to this? Even after reading so
many books my need for books and for that one particular book which will complete
me is still there. Do any of you feel this way in respect of books? Am I
overdoing it? Number of questions arise in my mind.
I read somewhere that inside our
core there is nothing. This nothingness creates an urge to fill it. Be it
material things, knowledge, spiritual things, or even charitable works or volunteering
for social causes. Is it good or bad, I don’t know. What you do to face this nothingness?
This feeling of emptiness inside. Generally, you keep yourself busy, engaged in
various activities, so that you don’t face it. What are the ways to deal with this?
I remember a story which I have read sometimes back.
Once upon a time there was a beggar with a begging
bowl. He was not getting any alms to feed himself. He went to the palace of
king and requested the king for some alms. The king asked his servants to fill
the bowl with the grains from the store. The servants filled the bowl first
with rice, then with wheat and then with other grains, still the bowl could not
be filled. The king was astonished to see this. But being a king, he ordered
his servants to fill the bowl with precious stones, gold and other wealth he was
having. To his surprise his servants told him that the royal treasury is now
emptied but the bowl is still not full. A wise man in the king’s court was seeing this drama. He
called the beggar and asked him whether he can see the begging bowl. The beggar
handed over it to him. The sage then asked the beggar – what is the material,
the bowl is made up of. The beggar replied” I fashioned it from human skull
that I found in the crematorium”. At this point the sage realized what was
happening. Human greed is such that nothing can fill it.
So, what is the antidote to it? What should be done
to keep this in check? Mindfulness or awareness of breath is a way to live
consciously. When a person lives with awareness, he realizes that he cannot
fill the void or / that nothingness inside with anything. And probably he
starts on the journey of inner peace and contentment.
I think I am slowly realizing this about books. I am
now consciously avoiding purchase of new books and trying to live a more
conscious life. What you do to be aware or live life consciously?
“Mindfulness and awareness is the bridge between
reaction and conscious choice.” Hal
Tipper
Such an insightful story and relatable feeling of nothingness. This nothingness is what we fear when we try to be silent or meditate.
ReplyDeleteUrge to read is good urge then to spend on material things. However, it sometimes put us in a confused state. Because we feel one opinion is right and other too.
ReplyDeleteI heard or read somewhere that mind doesn't stop questioning about the things and it starts pushing us from one query to another. But, it teaches us that real solution doesn't come from mind but after silencing the mind.
There is one chapter in book on Sri Aurobindo. The adventure of Consciousness. He was brilliant and scholarly personality but he found that one opinion is right and it's converse opinion is also true. Then he didn't want to depend on mind and it's solutions. He started taking the resort of silencing the mind.
All this came to my mind while reading the blog.
Thanks for this blog.
Thank you Mandar for an insightful comment. As said by Aurbindo mind needs to be silenced or one should go beyond mind and for that to happen mediation or breath awareness helps. Really glad that you took time to read and offer comment.
DeleteTo live conciously is my biggest urge. I want to keep my mind in control. It should be quite when I want it to be quite. It should focus on the things I need to focus on. My urge is to control this monkey. It should not jump at happiness or grief. I know the way, but it is a very difficult path, I have my Guru who can take me to the path, but I loose conciousness very often.
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ReplyDeleteWhat isnot there in Mahabharat , willnot be available anywhere.
So if we assimilate that epic , our urge for search in other books is likely to subside.
Next comes selective reading.
Finally reading of books burnt or banned.
The above may be a few antidotes for the urge Sir.
Thank you for the suggestion.
DeleteSomewhere I read that Ambedkar was a voracious reader and he had an insatiable thirst for books. He bought nearly 2000 books from New York and 32 boxes of books from London.
ReplyDeleteAs we live our precarious lives on the edge of void, we come close to a state of nothingness, and we are too often aware of our fragility.
Being self aware is the root of living a conscious life.
Beautifully expressed. True we live our lives on the edge of void and come close to a state of nothingness. Sometimes I wonder is it that that we are born with it or we develop it over a period of life.
DeleteAbsolute nothingness is altogether a misconception and a contradiction in terms. There can be no nothingness and that too absolutely! when there is a questioner of this question sitting rock solid. Nothingness is a relative term indicating presence or absence of objects at a particular space or time and certain conditions of perceiving mind. Thanx @Quan Le - Stockholm, Sweden
ReplyDeleteNothingness is a kind of “ lonliness” @Shawn Goth - Stockholm, Sweden
ReplyDeleteGreed is much more developed in human beings than in other animals, this is partly because human beings have the capacity to project themselves far into the future, to the time of their death and even beyond. The prospect of our eventual demise gives rise to anxiety about our purpose, value, and meaning. Wonderful post. @Carla Gouveia, Doctor at Medicine and Healthcare2005–present Lives in Portugal
ReplyDeleteMan’s desire knows no bounds. Man will never and can never be satisfied. Man’s existence is defined by his greed. Man is in essence a greedy being. This is the view of the sixteenth century thinker Thomas Hobbes as laid out in his seminal work The Leviathan. Blessings to Madhav @Gallia Reyes -Portugal
ReplyDeleteNothingness is just that. Nothingness. It can not be described. Every description or attribute you can think of.. is not it. Excellent blog @Gijs van Dinther - Auckland
ReplyDeleteLike it or not, our society is fuelled by greed, and without greed would descend into poverty and anarchy. And it is not just our society: greed lies at the bottom of all successful modern and historical societies, and political systems designed to check or eliminate it have all ended in abject failure. Superb!!! @Paul Dale - Darwin
ReplyDeleteMan is full if he is in tune with the universe; if not, he i ..he is empty, utterly empty. And out of that emptiness comes ..emptiness comes greed. Thank you @Nishan Niz - singapore
ReplyDeleteNaturally, we don’t see nothingness anywhere we look, but we do see scenes that are empty of anything we want, and we often use the word then. Sometimes the emptiness is physical. Sometimes it’s emotional. Awesome blog @Garyen Kwong - Helsinki, Finland
ReplyDeleteI love this article. Subconsciously, I'm this. I super can relate. We are not rich when we were young and there is this feeling that "I promise myself not go back to the same situation again". I had the opportunity of working abroad. I always ask myself "how much is enough for me", so that I can go back to my country and be with my family. After some time of introspection, I finally determined exactly how much I needed and how many years I will stay in my host country. Also, I try to buy things though, not I need, but will give me closure to the issues of my childhood and teenage years. I try to buy plenty of shoes, branded shirts and gadgets. I was deprived of those when I was young. Now, I'm a bit emotional. Going back, too much of something is bad. @Sharon Pompilii - Philadelphia
ReplyDeleteNothingness is just running away from thing and thingness is running away from nothingness. Thank you @Steve Lee-Manila, Philippines
ReplyDeleteNothingness in spiritual term means a state where you lack all sorts of thoughts going on in your mind. Not just the conscious mind but the unconscious as well as subconscious mind. These are just my opinions not facts. Thank you @Leeman Cheng - British Colombia
ReplyDeleteIt is horrifying, it is a ghost life. If you are empty and there is nothing inside you, it is impossible to live. Thank you @Lukya Panggabean, Studied Communication and PR Faculty & Journalism (college major) at Universitas Padjadjaran Lives in South Jakarta
ReplyDeleteGreed is, to say the least, a mixed blessing. People who are consumed by greed become utterly fixated on the object of their greed. Their lives are reduced to little more than a quest to accumulate as much as possible of whatever it is they covet and crave. Even though they have met their every reasonable need and more, they are utterly unable to redirect their drives and desires to other and higher things. Thanx a lot for referal link of such a wonderful blog @Catherine Henggeler-Minsk, Belarus
ReplyDeleteI believe, we cannot live the concept of nothingness as long as we are. Or, we are somethingness. You can only think about nothingness, or, if you try hard — you can watch it. @Rafael Daulet, Business Development Executive at Unicase Law Firm - Australia. Thank you for referal link.
ReplyDeleteIf you picture a graph with a sinus wave, the waves peakes and troughs add up to 0. Every wave is in that sense an expression of 0, of Nothingness. As everything is made of energy and energy is a vibration, Every-thing is an expression of No-thing.The need for zero arose from needing a number. Excellent post @Ashley- LA
ReplyDeleteIn short, yes: there is such a thing as nothingness. It’s a concept, not a material thing. It exists only in our heads (not to say you have nothingness in your head! Haha). It’s our concept for a complete absence of things. Thanx @Andrew Manzo -UK
ReplyDeleteWhen there is no consciousness, the question of what exists then can not and does not arise. Even to raise a question, consciousness is required to exist. So the question of whether nothingness is the ultimate reality does not arise. Even to experience nothingness, the presence of consciousness is a must. It is futile to even imagine a situation when no question can arise. Thank you for sharing a link @Laura Simpson - Melbourne
ReplyDeleteEnlightenment is neither nothingness nor realisation of nothingness. Enlightenment is the realisation that the universe is an illusion and is contained within an individual's consciousness. Superb post @ Richard Martini -Frankfurt
ReplyDeleteFormlessness is the potential for all form it is the source and blank canvas for reality
ReplyDeleteIt created consciousness (in no moment always is there) and that consciousness can of course limit its focus and reach a human perspective that forgets it is god. Thank you @Richard Heaney lives in Oregon
Very similar to the Double Entry Accounting System of debits/credits. And when all the debits and credits equal zero and the loan is paid off, then the balance sheet is in balance by equaling Nothingness. And then the God of Nothingness is ready to create a new binary universe, in a continuous Cosmic Cycle of life and death of a universe and its anti-universe partner. Thanx @Peter Michael - NY
ReplyDeleteIt’s a flexible concept. Someone might stand in the middle of a desert, looking out at nothingness stretching far as the eye can see. Thank you blogger for openess of your mind this is really great indicator of nice human. Thank you Ashwini for referral link and let me congratulate on your IG 10K milestone. @ Ryan Edwards Derby, Derbyshire
ReplyDeleteThere are no words, no senses, no meanings, no oxygen, no cells, no thoughts. Total and ultimate blackness. No light. There is no you, no others, no direction. Excellent blog. @Hana - UK
ReplyDeleteNothingness is what remains when withholding recognition of meaning in anything. Minus as well of course the withholding, the recognition, and the lack of meaning. In conceptual terms, nothingness must also be everything, not just in total, but every specific thing. This is taken very seriously by some ancient religious traditions, especially thowe with some foundation in mysticism. Thousands of years later it gets a new face in some post-modern philosophical theories with little or no acknowledgement of its spiritual roots. Japanese Zen Buddhists, for one, teach that their meditation techniques are the most efficient way to experience its truth. @Mike Morgan-Managing Director at Morgan Analytics Institute2016–present PhD and MS in Management Science & Economics, Lives in Dallas, TX
ReplyDeleteNull is still something that we needed. That’s saying something. It turns out, null is fundamental to programming. It’s like doing mathematics without zero. That’s far from nothing. Thank you. @Fedrik - California
ReplyDeleteNothingness can not be felt. In a way, it is like deep dreamless sleep. There is nothing at all…not even a “me” to experience it. And yet there was existence…for when you wake up there is not the feeling that you ceased to exist at some point in the night.Excellent !
ReplyDelete@Tim - Brisbane
Feeling nothingness is logically impossible. It is paradoxical as well. When consciousness is around there can be no nothingness. When it is all nothingness there is no scope for any consciousness to exist. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Zen - Hanoi, Vietnam
Even in the void of space, there is a very low density of particles, hydrogen and helium, dust. Very very little, but still, not absolute nothingness. If you want to get picky, there’s probably light, too, which is something! But from the standpoint of a person stranded in space, “nothingness” sure fits what they have there. @Joe Andros - Texas
ReplyDeleteWe can’t know who or what will prop up in our way. We can’t expect the unexpected, as much as we can plan. We can’t rely on probabilities for a certain course of action. These are the initial touches of humans on nothingness - to be conscious is to be forced to choose, to choose is to experience traces of nothingness. All these are premonitions of our progress to death, the ultimate nothingness of being. Superb blog. @Mac - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
ReplyDeleteAt the very small and the very large, at the earliest times and in the far future, the universe is weird. So that trying to guess, to intuit a model based on our common sense, is almost certain to be very wrong indeed. @Alec Cawley,Liberal software engineer with a physics degree- Lives in Newbury, Berkshire
ReplyDeleteHumans are a vanishingly unimportant animal on a vanishingly unimportant planet in a vanishingly unimportant galaxy in a vanishingly unimportant galaxy cluster in a visible (to us here on earth) universe that is unknowingly, but possibly also, vanishingly unimportant in our larger universe. @Gregg DuPont Retired Veterinarian,
ReplyDeleteLives in Seattle, WA
Nothingness can be understood as an absence with respect to a backdrop or substratum of something. If “something” possesses nothingness, that thing lacks somethingness. But if we predicate nothingness within nothingness, then there can be no thing from which to take away from that we can call somethingness. Superb!
ReplyDelete@Bob - Hampshire
The meaninglessness of his poise is an attempted portrait of nothingness itself. Thanx. @ DONALD - Miami's
ReplyDeleteIt is a concept without content. Nothing cannot refer to the physical world because anything that exists in that world must have, at the very least, position and duration. Nothing, would have to possess those parameters in order to have presence, which would mean that nothing would be something. Brilliant blog. @John Hylland - America
ReplyDeleteMuch of the emotional power of greed comes from a form of hope, where the expected reward far exceeds the expected time and cost to be invested. In the real world, this manifests itself in many ways, such as gambling, get-rich-quick schemes, and other forms of selling. Excellent read @California - Angel
ReplyDeleteThe beauty of our universe lies in its simplicity. Where everything that is created must have Cosmic balance. But only a balance at the beginning of Time, because if it weren’t for a slight disparate entropy of both universes they would cancel each other. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Shajung - California
Nothingness is a very vague term, it can be used in anything but which i personally think does not exist as we or the universe is said to be created from nothing or came out of nothing. Excellent!
ReplyDelete@Greg - Colombia
It doesn't exist outside some fumbling imagination. Even attempting to imagine it is pointless, absolutely impossible. You exist and so there’s no ‘nothingness’.wonderful blog. @Glen -USA
ReplyDeleteNo-thing-ness is pointing to a non-material reality that is entirely beyond our 5 senses both directly as well as indirectly through its effects on totality, if any. THANK YOU . @Kennedy -LA
ReplyDeleteIt cannot. This should be extremely obvious. When we say “nothing” we simply mean that within a given area, there are no things, at least no things of interest, within that area. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Murray - Chicago
Pure Awareness is the only ‘no thing’ which IS Known by itself, as itself, and through itself. But the mind needs to stop identifying with ‘things’ and quiet down for Pure Awareness to notice itself while in the apparent human form. @Rula Mazigi Lives in Charlotte, NC
ReplyDeleteExplained very succinctly . Thank you
DeleteIt is the absence of all love and the souls in Hell are the closest to knowing what absolute nothingness. Is. @Bruce Barron London
ReplyDeleteFor humans it is the thought. The moment you become thoughtless of the world these rays (photons) which have energy effect you and give your nothing Ness everything. Thank you. @Campbell- USA
ReplyDeleteThings exists because of nothingness. Nice blog. @Baker - UK
ReplyDeleteNothingness cannot be nothing if there is not something. What do you think about that? @Carter-Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
ReplyDeleteNothingness is simply “not anything”. It is what rocks dream about. Every time you imagine something, you are imagining some form of time, space, matter, or energy, so the closest you can get to imagining nothingness is to simply stop imagining. Thank you. @Torres - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
ReplyDeleteI think that even in the singularity which preceded the Big Bang, this was also not nothing - all the matter contained within is our present universe. To this end: true nothingness is a paradox. Welldone!.
ReplyDelete@Nguyen-Beirut, Lebanon
By reading this article it’s clear that the practice of meditation and its results: experiencing genuine joy and well-being. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@ Flores - Bucharest, Romania
The mindful process teaches us that we may not be able to shape the world to our specifications, but we can definitely do something about how we interact with it. It helps us see our place in the world and is, as famed Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön puts it, “a sense of clear seeing with respect and compassion for what it is we see. This is what basic practice shows us. Thankyou for referal link. @Rivera - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
ReplyDeleteWe can’t know no thingness with the mind - I’m saying ‘no thing’ and not ‘nothing’.
ReplyDeleteThe mind is in space and time and only perceives in those dimensions. Pure Awareness or Pure Consciousness is without dimensions but very much Present and uniquely Known by virtue of being each and every one of us (we ARE Awareness) at all ‘times.’ Thank you for referral link. @Walker- Stockholm, Sweden
With mindfulness, we learn to recognize and acknowledge what’s going on in the mind, moment by moment, without judgment and with benevolence, and to let it go. Thank you. @Nelson-Hanoi, Vietnam
ReplyDeleteSince childhood, we’ve always been encouraged to examine things outside of ourselves; the emphasis has rarely been to search within ourselves. Wonderful post. @Mitchell- Honolulu
ReplyDeleteConsciousness implies awareness: subjective, phenomenal experience of internal and external worlds. Consciousness also implies a sense of self, feelings, choice, control of voluntary behavior, memory, thought, language, and (e.g. when we close our eyes, or meditate) internally-generated images and geometric patterns. But what consciousness actually is remains unknown. Our views of reality, of the universe, of ourselves depend on consciousness.Best Blog thank you for referral link. @Flores- Atlanta, Georgia
ReplyDeleteConsciousness is a truly puzzling phenomenon. For one, my own consciousness is the only element of existence I am personally aware of. Wonderful and thank you for referral link. @Sanchez - Madrid, Spain
ReplyDeleteReality is a vast and impermanent illusion (anicca) comprised of endless distractions and suffering.Thanx. @ Allen - UK
ReplyDeleteWe live in the multiverse, the infinite set of all possible universes. As a consequence, we naturally find ourselves in that corner of it which allows for intelligent and sentient life. @Robinson- Manila
ReplyDeleteGreed is just a clue about the real problem. Thank you for referral link. @ Hall- Santo Domingo
ReplyDeleteGreed is a natural tendency among most sentient beings. Excellent post. Thank you. @Martinez-Auckland, New Zealand
ReplyDeleteImperfection. People lost perfection thousands of years ago and that was tragic. Instead of complete mental-emotional-physical balance and harmony, they started to have bad inclinations and desires to do wrong. One of these wrongs are inordinate desire to possess things or enjoy things, and that is greediness. - Klári Geiszler - Darwin
ReplyDeleteIt’s really no use to figure it out for every person in the world. A great first step is to figure out that for oneself. Thank you for a good read.
ReplyDelete@Jose - Denwar
In my view, greediness is just a perverted form of the basic experience of real needs, especially core existential ones. That it drives so many to such lengths I think, is a reflection of a metaphysical need that we all have to never not be, which by definition, can never be satisfied by mere accumulation of experience or the passage of time. Wonderful blog. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Anna Emdenborg - Budapest, Hungary
Gravity is an abstract force that is beyond our 5 senses but we imagine the presence of gravity when we see objects getting attracted towards the center of our planet. Thoughts and memory are entirely beyond our 5 senses both directly as well as indirectly through their effects on totality, if any, however both thought and memory are undeniable and self-luminous. Excellent blog. @Lopez- Harare
ReplyDeleteEnlightenment is the Absolute Nothingness @Anderson- Brussels
ReplyDeleteNothingness refers to the troubling concept of nothing. When we speak of ‘nothing’, we are referring it as some sort of entity or being. But in fact, we can’t imagine nothingness. It’s somewhat considered to be a concept, but it’s a concept with no content, hence not actually a concept. @Cheng Wen - Detroit, Michigan
ReplyDeleteNothingness’ can be perceived as the opposite of ‘somethingness’. As someone said- ‘in love I am everything, in wisdom I am nothing, between the two my life flows’, and also ‘the void is full to the brim’. Thank you writer @Daisi Lui - Hanoi, Vietnam
ReplyDeleteEven in vacuum, there is something. Nothingness cannot exist, but something has to exist. And also, after death something will exist, that would also be an error if nothing would exist. Nice article. Thankyou for referral link. @Wright-Darwin
ReplyDeleteThe universe is the opposite of nothingness. It is filled with something. And itself is therefore something. Thank you. @Sam - USA
ReplyDeleteEverything is true, for a given definition of truth. Nothing is true, for a given definition of truth. This is the philosopher’s dilemma. So don't think too much about your hobby and complete , incomplete . Thank you for reffral link.
ReplyDelete@Timy - Boston
True nothingness then is exactly that, nothing, no time, no space, no energy, no intelligence, no thoughts just nothing. To me the most logical result of nothing BANG ….would be nothing ..but instead …..nothing …..BANG…we got everything. Wonderful link referable . Thank you.
ReplyDelete@Ziting - California
If nothing is something then something comes from nothing. If nothing isn’t something then nothing comes from nothing. So, you just have to ask yourself if nothing is something. Don't worry fly into flow. Thax.
ReplyDelete@Edam -Boston
I am starting to understand this topic that explaining this is much more difficult and beyond my capacity but your blog is awesome. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Era - WA
Yes, nothingness exists, but only as a false concept. The concept itself, “nothingness,” is also something. It is a concept. Wonderful blog. @SHEN - Austin
ReplyDeleteIt can’t. Nothingness does not exist. 'Nothing' has no boundaries, therefore 'everything' is in to 'nothing'. Thank you for superb blog.
ReplyDelete@Densy - Michigan
In short, we don’t know and possibly we will never know. Even if we found out, we can always ask, what happened before everything we know to cause that. Excellent blog. Thank you for referral link.
ReplyDelete@Ronald - Texas
We come across several instances in our lives in which we feel inadequate, bogged down, overwhelmed and downright incompetent. These instances are nothing but points on a learning curve which make us question our prior knowledge and compel us to upgrade ourselves in the light of the present situation. So don't feel bad about incompleteness feelings we all need love care and support system to face the life. This is only the truth. Thank you Ashwini for referral link. Wonderful blog and wrtier. @Radha Acharya - Amsterdam
ReplyDeleteIf the world doesn't end today, then you have a second chance: When faced with challenges, it does feel like it's the only thing that matters in life. But the truth is that with every new morning you get a new lease of life, and a new chance to solve your problems differently. According to me the real philosophy is face the challenges of life bravely other things are just running away. You might be don't like sorry for that but i am giving my true opinion. You are awesome writer. Thank you for referral link.
ReplyDelete@Kellsie-Bucharest, Romania
Nothing can make you feel incomplete if you don't allow it to. Know that the ultimate power lies in your hand. It is you who decides whether a situation has the capacity to break you or make you stronger. You have come to the world alone and you have to leave it alone. But don't confuse being “alone” with being “lonely”. Life offers you a lot of happiness in the form of friends, family, nature or pets. Enjoy your book reading. Enjoy being an observer to this wonderful mess called life and you will never feel incomplete again!! Stay happy!! God bless you my child. You have very good capacity to write. Thank you.
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As humans, we have the urge to blossom in our own unique way – we thrive in doing so every day of our lives. We dig to find ourselves and strive to reach that ultimate feeling of well being and meaningfulness. Thank you. for wonderful blog. @Tiffany - Prague, Czechia
ReplyDelete1. That means that there is no “it” to produce anything. To “produce something means that something exists so that it can take the actions required to produce something. But, if there is no “it”, then there is nothing to produce anything. So, what the question is actually asking is: “If there is no thing to act, how can the thing that does not exist, produce a something?”. Which makes no sense at at all, it is an obvious contradiction. Nice blog. @Braxton - Bogota, Colombia
ReplyDeleteYou know the time where you gave something in your life your all and put in the effort and still felt incomplete or dissatisfied? This is because most of the time we forget the golden rule for well being which lies in one simple word—balance. Thankyou for a refferal link.
ReplyDelete@Fletcher-San Francisco
On the quantum scale, we get “noise” all the time where particles appear and disappear at random, and on average there is no net effect. This rarely has a noticeable effect on us. @Harlow-Darwin
ReplyDelete“Why are we here, because we’re here… Roll the Bones…. Why does it happen, because it happens… Roll the Bones…@Jameson-Brussels
ReplyDeleteBalancing our lives requires us first to know what our lives are all about – what is important for you, what you give value to. There is no template or one size fits all ticking chart for that, but there are some basics to help manage our thoughts and emotions and further find stability in our minds. We tend to focus on one or two aspects of our lives and give them full throttle energy, time and thought. Whether we like it or not something else around you and inside of you will be starving and needs more nourishment. Thank you for a wonderful blog and a refferal link. @Knox - Houston, Texas, USA
ReplyDeleteTo put it simply, for some reason, you are here. And all the “here” you experience appears to have no starting point at all. Nice!
ReplyDelete@Nash- Auckland
Put everything into perspective and give every element of your life the right amount of thought, time, and energy. Working on your social relationships and leaving out your career or hobbies will leave you useless and empty. Likewise, having a grand career, one that fulfills all of your interests and not giving your family and friends the right amount of quality time, will also leave you in constant guilt trips and obstacles. It’s never enough to go to the gym, have a fantastic workout plan and poor nutrition. And vice versa. It all matters, and it all weaves into one story. Maybe you won’t have the perfect balance, but at least you’re on the right track of not leaving any part of you hungry for satisfaction. It’s almost like we’re redefining the meaning of success for ourselves and taking a journey within to find our own balance. Excellent referral link thank you Ashwini.
ReplyDelete@Preston - Copenhagen
When nothingness is mere a feeling then within this feeling the feeling of things appears. The root is not nothing or thing but it is heart which feels both. Thank you for a wonderful writer. @Ryder-Hanoi, Vietnam
ReplyDeleteIn order to define “nothingness” “absolutely,” you need an absolute frame. But that wouldn’t be nothing, now would it? This is related to why an observer makes the universe exist. @Vance- UK
ReplyDeleteToday is the day to take all matters back into your control and not let those areas of your life control you and your time. It’s time to find that wholesome you. Enjoy your reading hobby why you are desroying.Don't think much life is love , Care find that you will get. Don't go into search of those things for which n number of people lost their happiness. Philosophy is good thing but this may destroy our happiness as we are normal simple souls. At least this is applicable to me. Thank you and be happy with love and care.
ReplyDelete@Parker- Stockholm, Sweden
What happens to our feelings when we refuse to acknowledge them? They stick around in the shadows of our minds, gumming up the emotional works and, eventually, cutting us off from ourselves altogether. The result? We feel empty. We have a pulse, but we’re not really alive. Take care of self with liveliness not with dead heal. Thank you for a wonderful blog.
ReplyDelete@Tanner - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Life is an emotional experience. @Audrey- Ankara
ReplyDeleteBefore anything at all existed, including all time, matter, space, and energy, there was nothing. There was no space, no time, no matter, and no energy. No aliens and no other beings within the universe. How could something exist out of nothing? The thing that caused the Big Bang is outside of the universe - outside of all time, space, matter, and energy. If that cause of the universe is in time, occupies space, has matter, and is made up of energy, then it is part of the universe and it cannot create itself. So, the cause of the universe is timeless, spaceless, immaterial, and powerful to cause something out of nothing. That is what theists define as God. He is the cause of the universe and He is timeless, spaceless, immaterial, and powerful to create the universe out of nothing. The first law of thermodynamics does not apply to the moment of creation. It applies after the creation of the universe. Our "man" is space. Excellent writer. @Finley- Auckland
ReplyDeleteThe fact that we have words for this absolute nothing idea does not mean it is an actual possible state, in the sense that you mean. Thank you. @Hadly- UK
ReplyDeleteConsciousness, basically the fundamental proof of our existence (as Descartes famously put), entails nothingness. Upon deeper introspection, our freedom as human beings is also a form of nothingness. Wonderful blog. @Mackenzie- Kuala Lumpur
ReplyDeleteReveal reality in its is-ness.Thank you @Paisley-UK
ReplyDeleteDo not grasp onto the different thoughts and emotions that are hitting us at any given moment, do not let them stop you. Have no ego and just take it in.
ReplyDelete“It is to see things as they are and not become attached.” this is the way i am using. Thanx
@Willow- Budapest
Practicing mediation is a way to engage with the void. @Scarlett - Harare
ReplyDeleteEmptiness is equated with gentleness. An aggressive spirit will be brought low.”
ReplyDeleteIf you want to engage the Void, you have to engage it with gentleness, you cannot force your way into the Void. @Skylar - London
The Void is limitless. “Not conviction but perception is the way.” It is a state of pliable awareness, choiceless awareness. This helps shift our perception of something because we are open to all that is possible.Thank you. @Carlos-Lisbon
ReplyDeleteJust watch choicelessly and in the watching lies the wonder. Thank you for referral link @Dennis- Manila, Philippines
ReplyDeleteIf we can drop a need for things to be right or wrong, and just take life as it comes and respond to it in that way, then we will have less problems.@Giovanni- Helsinki
ReplyDeleteTo be consciously unconscious or to be unconsciously conscious is the secret to Nirvana. The act is so direct and immediate that intellection finds no room here to insert itself and cut it to pieces.@Leonardo-Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
ReplyDeleteThe mind is the name given to this dynamic aspect of emptiness from which all movements come. A mind that has no dwelling doesn’t stop, but continues to flow ceaselessly and ignores limitations and distinctions. Let this mind fill up the whole body and flow freely throughout the totality of your being without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club. Fantastic blog and thank you for referral link.
ReplyDelete@Maverick- Sydney, New South Wales
Meditation is a good way to get into the feeling of the Void. @Santiago- Copenhagen
ReplyDeleteThe universe is the opposite of nothingness. It is filled with something. And itself is therefore something. Nice writer thank you.
ReplyDelete@ Shamak - California
Very interesting . I have one question. Can anyone DEFINE what "NOTHING" is ? All I hear is that nothing is a lack of something. That tells me what it isn't, it does not tell me what it is. Thank you. @Sam - Texas
ReplyDeleteTechnically, there is no ‘before’ for the universe in which a state of nothingness could exist, since time itself is intrinsically part of the physical universe. Nice writer .Keep on.
ReplyDelete@Kevin - Chicago
ncompleteness can be caused due to many reasons but in the root of all will be one: unsatisfied desires . They can be emotional, professional etc. It is surely not a good feeling. If you can adjust with the present state of life and lifestyle , accept it , you may find peace. Excellent writer. Thank you for sharing referral. link. @Glen - NY
ReplyDeleteComes the category of people which you described. We start using present to either compensate what is missing or to avoid the pain inside. With physical exhaustion in the end of the day, we sleep or even not. But for us, mornings are the worst because incompleteness haunts us that time the most. I am experiencing the same. Thank you.
ReplyDelete@Jimmy - Canada
The answer to this question can take many turns. I just chose to answer it this way. Don’t worry. Life is beautiful (lyrical reference from ‘Around the World’ by RHCP) and Living is simple (song by Switchfoot). We often eat in the past to excrete in the future. Take hold of the present, my friend. Life life to the fullest! Thank you.
ReplyDelete@Harry - Swizerland
Learn to enjoy the journey not just the end results. Brilliant referral link. Thank you.
ReplyDelete@GRAMMY - London
There is no such thing. Nothingness implies something, because without something there can never be nothing. Therefore we see that nothing is in fact something. Thank you writer. Thank you Ashwini .
ReplyDelete@Linda
According to science 99% of universe and atom is nothingness. These were the nothingness of the word of very small scale and very large scale. Remember people say everything is made up of matter which has definite mass and dimensions but in real when matter is further divided weeing photon.Excellent blog.
ReplyDelete@Simpsons -Scotland
Awareness is beyond the existent and non-existent, beyond “merely real.” Thanx @Madry - London
ReplyDeleteThe concept of zero, null, space, emptiness or other abstract ideas are virtual objects, they are not of the physical universe, but we use them as a means to represent the interior or exterior of all things that exist. Wonderful post. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Jack - USA
Greed Is Good, When It Comes to Reading Books. Fantastic blog sharing thank you.
ReplyDelete@Rocky - Sydney
When thinking in all-or-nothing terms, you split your views into extremes. Everything—from your view of yourself to your life experiences—is divided into black-or-white terms. This leaves room for little, if any, gray area in between. Thank you for wonderful blig writer .
ReplyDelete@Henry - Scotland
It’s not the same nothing as we have in mind. A blackness. A dull boring empty space. None of that has anything to do with it either; it is independent of all such ideas. It’s also quite intimate. More immediate than space and time. Darkness doesn’t go anywhere when light shows up. When the light is gone, the darkness is immediately there because it’s always there. In much the same way, absolute nothingness is here, right now. Thanx.
ReplyDelete@Johnson - London
One theory is the Big Bang, which indicates that all matter (and its energy equivalent) was compressed into a single black hole. That compression is possible because the universe is mostly empty between all particles. Nice blog.
ReplyDelete@Hana -London
What is absolute darkness? The absence of light, right? It’s whatever remains when light is gone. So it is more fundamental than light. It is the space in which light shines. You are wonderful writer.
ReplyDelete@Kinley - Sydney
A void is absent of anything, and is therefore empty space. A vacuum is an area of space with no matter, and therefore is also empty space. One might argue that either of these are something or nothing, based on personal interpretation.Nice blog. Thank you.
ReplyDelete@Harper - London
Hooray! An article of 'Nothing' that is really is 'Something' that may explain 'Everything'. ;-) I like the logic shared with this article, of which I feel a worthy read. Thank you for a referral link.
ReplyDelete@Noir - Sydney
Thank you for writing this stimulating article. @Laura - Sydney
ReplyDeleteWe have a “field” of perfectly silent, “freed of witness,” Universal Consciousness which has no activity — no thoughts, emotions, memories, etc. It is now the perfect reflector of awareness which is transcendental — prior to consciousness. By stillness, (astral and causal,) Universal Consciousness becomes “pure,” and to any instrumentality it is indistinguishable from awareness — but yet it is, however itty, tarnished by being “manifest.” That residue is “Cosmic Ego.” So, hey, toss Universal Consciousness! Just to be sure. Awareness don nee no steenkeenk mirrors! Thank you for a wonderful post. @Bobby - LA
ReplyDeleteWriter as usual honest with the expressions (which is really appreciable ) and this time topic is very very deep ocean of the human mind process. There’s nothing to understand about nothing, it’s most inherent quality is it’s inability to be understood. But maybe we can set some limits for “nothing”? Even if we get ok, we don't accept it whole heartedly. We feel we are missing some thing in life when all we are missing is the chance to utilize the present and see what is happy in it.
ReplyDeleteDissatisfaction with our life often results because we may feel really out of place of what society or family or the material world in general expects us to do. The pressure of having to align yourself and stay in tracks just to run the race after success, which is so highly hyped, may just manifest in the form of this ‘incompletene'. Thank you for a wonderful post.