What is Nothingness?

[Brandon Nankivell]

Found this to be very insightful, specifically to what it is not

[Brandon Nankivell]

Nothingness is:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[LastThursday]

8 hours ago, Brandon Nankivell said:

Isn't nothing neither existence nor non-existence?

It depends. My logic is:

If any kind of something is said to exist, then whatever exists must be something, that would then exclude nothing itself, and so nothing is non-existence. 

But you could equally say that nothing doesn't have any relationship to existence/non-existence. Although, I would say that doesn't really help with defining what nothing is.

[Atb210201]

On 31/03/2025 at 6:14 PM, Princess Arabia said:

Who's seeing behind the eyes of the one that got his upper face eaten off but still alive. Who's seeing behind the blind man's eyes. I guess there's someone behind our eyes playing peekaboo.

The same guy I'm pointing to 

[Breakingthewall]

We could distinguish two kinds of nothingness. One in which nothingness exists, absolute zero, and another in which movement exists but no consciousness. Both are merely theoretical possibilities, since if something exists at some point, or if consciousness appears, as is the case here, that is sufficient demonstration that reality develops and manifests with what we call something and consciousness. If all this manifestation were to disappear, there would be nothing. But since it already existed, it is absolutely inevitable that nothingness would manifest again, since it was the potential for this manifestation and the crack without anything would be just nothing, then no crack 

But the interesting thing here is to realize that nothingness houses the potential for manifest reality. Nothingness is constantly opening up and releasing its essence, its total potential. All reality that appears and moves is nothingness in its limitlessness, manifesting forms inevitably and eternally.

Edited Friday at 02:09 PM by Breakingthewall

[Aaron p]

It seems like you're getting a lot of confusing and chaotic replies that are conflicting with each other or might be appearing to conflict with each other. 

Just remember that the nothing you think Leo is talking about is usually not the nothing that he actually means. It's not just a blank piece of paper or an empty box or mental silence. That kind of nothing is what is a common trap in the likes of Buddhism. You might want to include in your contemplation about how nothing is the same as everything, like the fish swimming in the middle of an empty body of water... It is simultaneously surrounded by nothing (in the water) and everything (the water itself).

Another reason why the word nothing is used is because what is being pointed to really cannot be defined by words nor is it simply a word game at all. It is extremely powerful and will hit harder than a freight train if you realize it deeply enough. And when it hits you it won't feel like nothingness it will feel like the most incomprehensible everythingness possible (if you get a big enough dose). 

[Spiritual Warrior]

On 4/4/2025 at 8:15 PM, Aaron p said:

And when it hits you it won't feel like nothingness it will feel like the most incomprehensible everythingness possible (if you get a big enough dose). 

I can't wait for this realization