[MD] Is Morality innate in the cosmos?

[Heather Perella]

Ham,

     You said:  "Existence is a reality carved out by
nothingness; it's the ground of our being.  If we
could negate nothingness, we'd be right back to the
"absolutely converged" Essence.  But we don't because
we can't:  we negate "beingness" instead."  

By that last statement, do you mean we negate
"beingness" because we die?

     Reinier said: 
     I think we experience space because we experience
> substance. In an empty universe there would be no
> space to experience. ...
> You need to be able to be aware of 'not the object'
> to be aware of 'the object'.  An experience of 'A'
will
> always be accompanied by the experience of a
possible
> 'not A'. This implies you need a limitation in
either time
> or space of the experience. This implies you need a
> concept called time and space, but this makes space,
> in my opinion, not equal to nothingness.
     
Did Reinier mean by this that to notice space and time
we need to experience something outside of space and
time to see space and time?  This would be an
objective view if that's what he meant.

You said later in the posting:     "If nothingness
isn't negated, my question back to you is: What does
Essence negate to create existence?"  

     By you saying "...nothingness isn't negated..."
is that because nothingness and Essence have the same
definition?  If so, why couldn't nothingness be the
vast, incomprehensible infinite realm of Essence
experienced by us tied together with the finite realm.
 Our concepts and even awareness are capable of only
seeing so far (a limit exists), therefore, the
nothingness is a response or sense that we have of
Essence.  I would include other ways of describing the
experience of Essence (other than as nothingness which
is a very visual type of experience).  One would be
'quietness' or 'silence' (a more auditory way of
describing Essence).  This reminds me of a Zen rock
garden in which it is intentionally made so that the
person looking at the garden sees almost the whole
garden, except for a small part of it.  This is to
remind or show the viewer of the garden that there is
always something that we cannot see, no matter where
we turn our head.  There is this blank spot in our
awareness.  When I meditate I experience a blank spot,
and closing my eyes is a more physical way of showing
how I don't see what is around me, yet, I can hear it.
 Something is missing, my sense of sight.  Yet, even
in my awareness I see or experience a definite missing
or blank spot in what is going on.  It is present.  I
feel it, I mentally see it, yet, it is hard to
describe a cougar unless you see a picture or saw it
yourself in a real life experience.      

SA

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