Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Nothing


Nothing, noun (Eng.); Rien (Fr.):

  • having no quantitative value.
  • Something that has no existence. Yet.

"Being 'in the gap' can be disorienting and even scary. Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and possibilities might lie ahead. But it was just this state of pure potential that existed before the universe was created. All you can do now is to relax into this nothingness... fall into the silence between the words... watch this gap between the outgoing and incoming breath. And treasure each empty moment of the experience. Something sacred is about to be born.

Nothing is not just nothing. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all. So why in the middle do we make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious--why create despair?

Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey."

- Osho Zen Tarot

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