Nothingness

Nothingness

Being in the gap can be disorienting and even scary for most of the people. Nothing to hold on to, no sense of direction, not even a hint of what choices and possibilities lie ahead. Keep in mind that this was the state of pure potential that existed before the universe was created. All you can do now is to relax, fall into this silence between the words and watch the gap between the outgoing and incoming breath. Something sacred is about to manifest. Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words "shunyata" which translates in English to "nothingness". In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature so why on the middle do you make such fuss ? Why in the middle people become so worried, so anxious, so ambitious and create despair? Remember! From nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey! As nothingness is potential, absolute potential which has not manifested yet, but it does contain all. Short Paragraph by OSHO from "The Zen Manifesto" Zen knows only a vast life which contains all kinds of contradictions In a deep harmony, The night is in harmony with the day And life is in harmony with death And the earth is in harmony with the sky The presence is in harmony with the absence. The immense harmony This synchronicity Is the essential Manifesto of Zen. This is the only way of life which respects and loves and denies nothing, condemns nothing. How to make sense of the word "Impossible":