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No-Thingness
Osho's Words
Buddha has chosen one of the really very potential words - shunyata. The English word, the English equivalent, "nothingness", is not such a beautiful word.
That's why I would like to make it "no-thingness" - because the nothing is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with all possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all.
In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, no ambitious - why create such despair?
Nothingness to nothingness is the whole journey.
Commentary-Reading
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 be 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 no-thingness...fall into this silence between the words...watch this gap between the outgoing and the incoming breath. And treasure each empty moment of the experience. Something sacred is about to be born.
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Commentary and Osho's Words are from the book
Osho Zen Tarot
The Transcendental Game of Zen
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