Nothingness...

The ultimate truth hurts very much.

Finally, everything is gone, including me and you. What remains is a pure consciousness.
It is not that you are plugged into it, you are no more.

The dispersion is so intimate and so ultimate that first your personality has to disappear, then your
individuality has to disappear, then what remains is pure existence. It makes one feel a little worried
and concerned, because you don’t know the experience of not being.

Just think for a moment.... Before this life you were not. Was there any trouble? Any anxiety?
After this life you will not be again. What is the fear? There will be silence and peace, in the same
space where anxiety, tensions and anguishes flourished. They all will have melted just the way a
dewdrop disappears into the ocean.

Hence, Zen does not teach you self-realization. Self-realization is a much lower goal. Zen teaches
you the ultimate: no-self realization, or realizing that disappearing into the whole is the final peace.

Your very being is an anxiety. At whatever level you are, some anxiety will remain. You are anxiety,
and if you want anxiety to disappear, you have to be ready to disappear yourself.

- Osho