[MD] The differentiating nothingness

[platootje at netscape.net]

Hi to All and specifically to Ham who wrote to SA:

<begin quote>
I think you're missing the metaphysical "function" of nothingness that 
is my
focus here.  Again you describe the experience of looking and listening 
for
nothingness as something which does not exist, but not as something that
differentiates.  "Quietness" does not adequately describe the difference
between objects experienced, unless you're detecting that difference on 
an
oscilloscope or a Geiger counter.

What I had hoped to hear from you was whether it is logical to say that 
what
is not-other to Essence is both "not-" and "other" (divided) in 
existence.

Can you comment on that?
<end quote>

Ham,

Though I haven't been posting I have been reading and thinking. If I 
recall correctly you and I agreed on a lot of things but somehow got 
stuck on your concept of nothingness. In this post of yours I see yet 
another attempt to explain it, but the concept is still not understood 
by others as it is by you.
(@SA, maybe you DO understand it better then I do, if that's the case 
then maybe you could explain it tom me in your words)

While thinking and reading on a lot of subjects I was strengthed in my 
opinion that there is no such thing as the nothingness you're 
propagating. I think all is connected, Essence is All, our perception 
being the differentiator, valueing Essense creating existence. I see 
this view confirmed by quantum physics.
But to your specific comment "whether it is logical to say that what is 
not-other to Essence is both "not-" and "other" (divided) in existence" 
I would like to say, yes that's logic. The opposite to duality is 
unity, but only from the viewpoint of duality, because from the 
viewpoint of unity there is no opposite. Essence is Unity, Existence is 
duality. Only in existence can there be the concept of existence and 
Essence, of unity and duality, of other and not. In Essence that 
differentiation does not exist. It is the source, but it's not an 
external source, and we're not apart from it.

Sorry for breaking in to this discussion but I just couldn't resist it.

Kind regards,
Reinier.





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