Tag: nothingness

Emptiness = Voidness = Nothingness = Shunyata

Fear of Emptiness = horror vacui

Quotes of gurus relating to the fear of emptiness:

I feel that the feeling of boredom and the fear of nothingness are central in the spiritual awakening, one of the most trickiest pitfalls that can block one for eons in the path to spiritual developme

Does the hole in the ground filled again with sand still exist?

Nothingness when viewed by the mind seems awful, the most dreadful thing to fear from, a black hole. That's why humanity is so agitated, so occupied with doing and excitements and addictions.

THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO ENTRY ON KAPALIKAS. I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY IT IS SO?

The world is not an objective thing. The illusion is that there is a perceiver exploring something outside of his consciousness, but the world forms from the inside out.

I have left the nothingness’ behind, walking further beyond time and space. The though is arising from nowhere, and the returning to the source has become the creative walk within.

Those who say

don't go but stay

do not understand

that there is nothing but movement.

Nothingness or unlimited potential? There doesn't seem to be a problem of choice here. But nothingness is chosen by the majority of "spiritual" people, most of the time. Why would you do that?