“Homage to the Great Nothing without which the earth and stars and sun would not exist. Praise to the Magnificent Nothing, the mother of all Buddhas and jnanis. Though words are crude (some call it Brahman, God, Tao, Buddha), I call it Nothingness. Markless, signless, unborn, unconditioned, deathless. Beyond time or space. stains or purity, Nothingness calls us all home. It is our true name. Dark, silent, still, void, and utterly unknowable, Nothingness is the great womb from which we never leave. Who can sing praise loud enough to honor exalted Nothingness? Whose knees can bow low enough, hands write enough, hearts open wide enough? The best obeisance we can perform is to look inwards and see for ourselves the fertile Nothingness in our hearts— prior to awareness, to our births, even to the dawn of the universe. Allow ourselves to return to Nothing…
Bound by neither space nor time, Nothingness is dimension-less, time-less, and form-less. The Void is unborn, unoriginated, unconditioned, and deathless, neither coming nor going, ‘creating’ nor destroying, rewarding nor punishing. It has never set anything in motion nor caused anything to happen. Ultimately, there is only Nothing, which is the final and only truth.”
— God is Nothingness: Awakening to Absolute Non-being – Andre Halaw
