Imperishable No-thingness...

There are all sorts of advantages of being No-thing,

of being Space really, because things are at risk, are up against one another, they are threats to one another.

Each is asserting itself, crowding others out of its space.

Things exclude one another.

That may have certain attractions, but it certainly makes you, if you are a thing, terribly at risk, and basically frightened, because things perish.

You should be frightened because things perish,

If you are No-thing, it raises the question of whether you can perish at all.

If you are Space/Awareness, is that the kind of thing that perishes, that comes and goes?


~ From: Open to the Source, by Douglas Harding