The Beauty of Nothingness: Contemplating the Vanishing Breath
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.
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Alan Watts talks about the fundamental reality that there is beauty in nothingness, that nothing is more fertile than emptiness. Nothingness is more fertile than Emptiness – Alan Watts
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