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Portals of Nothingness
Scientists say that the entire universe came from an infinitely small, and infinitely dense, singularity, which expanded out into what we call the Universe, which is still expanding today. Even as it continues to expand, it is still an expansion of that initial singularity. When we want to talk about who we truly are in this equation, we could say we are something like a portal, or a gateway. We are a nothingness, through which all information has the potential to pass through. What we like to call things are really thoughts, and what we like to call thoughts are really things. The two do not differ, in truth. The “thoughts” and “things” fight to sustain their existence, and since they are momentary phenomena, it is necessary for them to latch on to something in order to gain some sense of a lasting existence. They lack any inherent nature, and so beyond the fight to be sustained as entities, they need to be processed by us in order to be separate entities in the first place.
Information is the essential nature of all things. Pure information populates all of reality. Information is pointless without being processed, which is why it seeks a portal through which to be understood. The portal itself is nothing, but it is only through these portals of nothingness that the information can be processed. We are these portals of nothingness. The information cannot exist without the portals, for the nature of the portals is infinite potential, and a thing cannot exist without the potential for that thing first existing. The source for all things is the nothingness, and this nothingness manifests as portals for information to pass through, something like a black hole. Although the portals are essentially nothing, they contain within themselves all potential information, and therefore it is not so inaccurate to say that the portal is everything.
Any particular range of information is limited, which is why it is impermanent and cannot sustain itself. We, as portals, tend to identify with a limited range of information, which is why we ourselves feel so impermanent and insignificant. As information passes into your awareness, allow it to flow through you, without getting caught up in it. Recognize them for what they are, limited expressions of your potential as it expands, entering into the portal that is your consciousness. They are not who you are, and through your attachment you make them more than they are, while simultaneously making yourself less than you are.
Information is the essential nature of all things. Pure information populates all of reality. Information is pointless without being processed, which is why it seeks a portal through which to be understood. The portal itself is nothing, but it is only through these portals of nothingness that the information can be processed. We are these portals of nothingness. The information cannot exist without the portals, for the nature of the portals is infinite potential, and a thing cannot exist without the potential for that thing first existing. The source for all things is the nothingness, and this nothingness manifests as portals for information to pass through, something like a black hole. Although the portals are essentially nothing, they contain within themselves all potential information, and therefore it is not so inaccurate to say that the portal is everything.
Any particular range of information is limited, which is why it is impermanent and cannot sustain itself. We, as portals, tend to identify with a limited range of information, which is why we ourselves feel so impermanent and insignificant. As information passes into your awareness, allow it to flow through you, without getting caught up in it. Recognize them for what they are, limited expressions of your potential as it expands, entering into the portal that is your consciousness. They are not who you are, and through your attachment you make them more than they are, while simultaneously making yourself less than you are.
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Moved to General Banter.
Please reserve matter relating to simple Buddhism for the 'Buddhism for Beginners' forum.
Any other esoterically-themed discussion should go in this forum...
Thank you.
I'm with the others... where do you get all this from?
Energy is matter, matter is congealed energy. Particles are waves and particles at the same time. The location of any given particle is unpredictable and unknowable until it becomes fixed by an observer.
Gibberish.
First,"Scientists say". What part of the original post does this apply to?
Second, this nebulous thinking, even if accurate, is not the kind of thinking a scientist would participate in. Nothing can be tested.
Dependent origination basically experientially and logically disproves a first cause.
I'm not sure if this research is published as yet and for the life of me I cant remember the name of the team but I read something on black holes last year due to be published - singularity occurs at the 'end' of a black hole - physics breaks down at this point so nothing can be hypothesised about it - this is unacceptable to objective science - an alternative is to consider 'data' rather than energy - therefore energy is not lost to the event horizon and singularity at the end of the black hole, energy is 'materialised' data and it is the data that is left at the event horizon (the energy never really existed)... this deals with the fundemental problem of 'lost' energy in black holes
So one proposition is that the material universe we as humans experience is a 2 dimentional representation of the true multidimentional 'data' - the 3rd dimention is time apparently... the maths to this assists in the singularity quandary and balances many other equations also apparently
My understanding of the theory is that it says something like - there is source data (which by definition is all data) and expressions of 'data' which is material experienced in the universe by an observer... the interaction between the two occur along a timeline but time is relative to the observer...
this sounds akin to thought and action coming together in the moment...? I guess that we are at the boundaries of science being expressed as a philosophy so it is inevitable that it will overlap with spiritual theories...
That said, we are all made up of the matter of the universe and are indistinct in it - perhaps the rawest, purest spiritual expression is the true nature as experiencable by the subjective observer and something that objective science can never comprehend as the expression of the universe is inherently subjective and not objective... (as objectively nothing and everything collide into paradox)...
If you take the term "information" and replace it with "Spirit" or "Mana" or "Illuminus" or "Oneness" or "Godhood" it would not change the message one bit. "The universe has an essential nature, that nature is called (fill in the blank) and this universal force permeates everything. Because of our limitations we cannot comprehend the true nature of (fill in the blank)." I'm not disparaging what you're saying, just pointing out that it's the same message with new clothes. I'd ask, how can you tell that your information theory is correct, and not the spirit one? Or would you say they are all talking about the same thing?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero
But if you want to get real funky, check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number
These are numbers such as the square root of -1, which according to the basic arithmetic we learn in school, shouldn't exist (because the square of any number supposedly should always be positive) ... and yet, by applying such 'imaginary' concepts, pure maths provides many solutions to real-world problems.
x = 1- 1/2 - 1/4 - 1/8 - 1/16 ... etc.
X thus approaches a limit of 0 but never reaches it. With proper maths notation using algebra (instead of the long-hand version I have given), X is effectively the closest possible number to 0.
Each symbol has a referent. Zero has no true referent. Well no thing really does.
You need reference points which are minds projections. What reference points does zero have? And in fact all number have no reference points other than what the mind asserts. 1 and 2 have no inherent linkage.
A construct asserted is always a divisiable puzzle. Always in relation. Interdependence is seperation, yet containing all potential.
On the other hand there are subtle differences between each apple. Apple is only a mental label. Thus all we ever have is describable but not any certain category. Or rather the assignment of a category is a projection.
“The nature of all things is like illusion, like a magical incarnation. So you should not fear them. Why? All words also have that nature, and thus the wise are not attached to words, nor do they fear them. Why? All language does not ultimately exist, except as liberation. The nature of all things is liberation.”
I like that quote; I don’t understand it though.
All language; all things, just liberation.
These words describing “Portals of Nothingness” can be seen as liberation, but when they’re taken for something else, they’re just another prison cell.
Thank you for that quote. Made my whole weekend/night.
However, it cannot be increased by something which doesn't.
This is possible because it is only the minds projection of wholeness and parts. The whole contains the part and the part contains the whole. Projection is a whole projected on parts and wholeness projected onto parts to be considered parts. And so on and so on.
The concept of zero is the same concept as emptiness. It points to the groundless ground. Multiplicity and singularity only exist as nominal projections. The appearance is just an interpretation based on dualistic projection. If one were to experience anything one would see that oneness and separation are merely projections. Reality lacks any intrinsic quality.
Even labels such as permanence and impermanence are not applicable to reality. How is permanence possible if all is based on conditions. How is impermanence possible without a mind to link 1 to 2.
Identity of Relative and Absolute
The mind of the Great Sage of India was intimately
conveyed from west to east.
Among human beings are wise ones and fools,
But in the Way there is no northern or southern Patriarch.
The subtle source is clear and bright; the tributary
streams flow through the darkness.
To be attached to things is illusion;
To encounter the absolute is not yet enlightenment.
Each and all, the subjective and objective spheres are related,
and at the same time, independent.
Related, yet working differently, though each keeps its own place.
Form makes the character and appearance different;
Sounds distinguish comfort and discomfort.
The dark makes all words one; the brightness distinguishes good and bad phrases.
The four elements return to their nature as a child to its mother.
Fire is hot, wind moves, water is wet, earth hard.
Eyes see, ears hear, nose smells, tongue tastes the salt and sour.
Each is independent of the other; cause and effect must return to the great reality
Like leaves that come from the same root.
The words high and low are used relatively.
Within light there is darkness, but do not try to understand that darkness;
Within darkness there is light, but do not look for that light.
Light and darkness are a pair, like the foot before
and the foot behind, in walking. Each thing has its own intrinsic value
and is related to everything else in function and position.
Ordinary life fits the absolute as a box ands its lid.
The absolute works together with the relative like two arrows meeting in mid-air.
Reading words you should grasp the great reality. Do not judge by any standards.
If you do not see the Way, you do not see it even as you walk on it.
When you walk the Way, it is not near, it is not far.
If you are deluded, you are mountains and rivers away from it.
I respectfully say to those who wish to be enlightened:
Do not waste your time by night or day.