Alan Watts - The Beauty of Nothingness

So if you really go the whole way and see how you feel at the prospect of vanishing breath. Of all your efforts and all your achievements and all your attainments turning into dust, nothingness...

What is the feeling? What happens to you?

For some reason or other we're supposed to find this depression. Do you see in a way now that is saying, the most real state is the state of nothing. But if somebody is going to argue that the basic reality is nothingness, where does all this come from..obviously from nothing. Once again you get how it looks behind your eyes.

So in this way by seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality and you see it's your reality, then how can anything contaminate.

All the idea of your being scared and put out and worried and so on it's just nothing. It's a dream. Because you're real enough but this is the most incredible nothing. So cheer up you see the essence of your mind is intrinsically pure, clear, void.