The Void, of which it cannot be said that it is or is not, nor that it has consciousness or has none, while it denies absoluteness to any experiential value (alike to being and to consciousness) cannot be identified. And that is the doctrine of not-self (anatta) as I see it in one aspect at present. This voidness cannot be “is-ed” and so introduced into the worldly scheme, except as the denial of absoluteness of all particular values. It has no more effect on ordinary life than the theory of relativity. But just as that theory completely alters calculation of enormous speeds, so, as I see it, this void-element completely alters calculations of extraordinary situations, of death (as killing, suicide or the partner of old age). N.T

Monday, February 24, 2014

Wandering on deserted places ...


Wandering on deserted places, there are found many traces, and tracts, from which we deduce the movements of heros and gods and so we weave history. Yet were our vision to become a little clearer, we might discover that all this tracts are merely made by ourselves during our own earlier wonderings.

Nanamoli Thera
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