What is emptiness?

[WODIN]

the abscence of love.

This is a direct association to nihilism where abscence equates to nothingness.

 

[The_Ghost]

Look at all the hot manvatars in this thread! Woooeee! That's what I'm talking about!

Please don't treat us as objects, we have feelings too.......wait a sec, who am I trying to kid

 

[jerkbox]

Jerkbox.. about this pistachio-coloured room you're in... explain.

actually, it's white/cream colored....for some reason my camera made it look green

i'm eating pistachios right now though, if that means anything.

 

[Seashell]

Please don't treat us as objects, we have feelings too.......wait a sec, who am I trying to kid

How come the wallet is flat after this weekeend? Did someone in that throng of butt-grabbing ladies make off with it?

 

[from zero]

i'm eating pistachios right now though, if that means anything.

That's a mighty big coincidence.

 

[The_Ghost]

How come the wallet is flat after this weekeend? Did someone in that throng of butt-grabbing ladies make off with it?

It was you wasn't it. When you grabbed my ass and lifted my wallet you could have at least smiled and said hello

 

[sigmund]

What is emptiness?

This question can be raised at many levels. Initially, to try and understand emptiness I personalised the expression in terms of “Do I feel empty / Is my life empty” – and what exactly does that mean?

To me it was quite apparent that for my life to be empty in a literal sense was a nonsense, as I am constantly provided with and seeking stimulus both consciously and subconsciously. So what this question (interpreted personally) became was - am I satisfied? Am I feeding my desires, be they physical / emotional / spiritual? And if so to what purpose are my desires bound? Does feeding my desires automatically fill the void of emptiness? Should emptiness be perceived as a negative, nihilistic in nature? These questions were however leading me astray of the original question “What is emptiness?”

I next thought of emptiness in terms of cognitive function and came up with:

Having nothing more or nothing less, to be void of any reaction or thought, be that cognitive assimilation, physical / mental process. Additionally absence of creative activity – the ability to not enter into conjecture or speculate – to totally let go.

The cessation of emotional response must also take place, in accordance if feelings ride upon the foundation of consciousness with love & hate primarily adjudged the two extremes, they and all sub categories must be released.

I therefore concluded that total abandonment of consciousness and sub-consciousness is necessary in order to achieve emptiness, in my opinion an impossibility for the human mind. You could argue that in certain states (sleep, coma) we do not perceive the ultimate reality underlying our experience however I do not feel emptiness is achieved, as some level of activity is present and therefore provides a sensation, even if at a deep subconscious level.

My conclusion was that the human mind could not experience emptiness but that does not mean emptiness is universally unobtainable, after all in theory it should be the most simple form, that from which all else began.

 

[WODIN]

So there isn't any such thing as nothing or abscence of all things.

 

[SoKlueles]

My wallet all the time, or my big empty purse, pretty as it may be....is empty.

 

[WODIN]

My wallet all the time, or my big empty purse, pretty as it may be....is empty.

it's full of something....air.