To: K-list
Recieved: 2001/01/26 21:30
Subject: [K-list] It's about Nothing
From: Kalipadma
On 2001/01/26 21:30, Kalipadma posted thus to the K-list:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:29:07 -0800 Mystress Angelique Serpent
<MystressATnospamkundalini-gateway.org> writes:
>
> Yes. To make a place for the peace of being Nothing. What you
> Truly are.
>
> Many years ago, playing past life games... <snip> I turned inward
and asked "who am I?" and fell into the Void.. Vast and incomprehensible.
I asked what is This, and The
> Voice said
> "I am infinite I am nameless nothing", and showed me scenes of the
> stars and planets being born of the Will of It's infinite creativity.
Then
> It told me It was Me!
>
> I did not understand it, could not believe it. I "bookmarked"
> the place
> in my mind so I could find it again without the crutch... Then
> started
> looking in books to find what Goddess was nameless infinite
> Nothing.. Still
> makes me smile, to remember my folly... seeking a name for the
> un-nameable... a form for the infinite..
> Namelessness is inconvenient, so I call It, "Goddess".
> Others call it, Void, Self, Buddha-nature, Dreamtime..
It's difficult to define the undefinable. Dosen't stop the mind from
attempting it, though. But the examples you give here are not coming too
close.
Buddhists call the Nothing "shunya." My working partner overheard a
conversation between two seekers in a bookstore looking at Buddhist
texts. "I'm having trouble understanding Buddhism," said one. "It's
just so... EMPTY, y'know?" Which is it, precisely!
The Buddhist concept of Nirvana comes from a root that means "to
extinguish (as a candle)." The point of Buddhism is to get off the Wheel
of Reincarnation, to realize that you are Nothing, All is Nothing.
Hinduism? As Kali is the Goddess of Time, Bhuvanishvari ("the Lady of
the Spheres") is the Goddess of Space. All the emptiness of space is her
realm. Related to her is the concept of Prakriti. Prakriti is Nature,
the background or Void upon which Tat Purusha (That Person) performs.
Aditi (the Indivisible) is a Vedic Goddess who similarly is Nothing.
Shaktas (Hindu Goddess-worshippers) see the Universe as <lila>, the
Goddess' play. She was lonely, and created the forms of Existance to
entertain Herself. At Pralaya (dissolution), all is reabsorbed into
Shakti.
From the Amritanubhava of Sant Jnaneshvar:
And when the time of dissolution comes,
the oceans and the rivers merge into the Primal Waters,
And the Sun and its brilliance merge with the element of Fire,
and the Wind and all its motion merge with the Universal Air...
And so, while striving to see Shakti and Shiva
both I and my Vision disappear.
Like the wood that gives itself unto the fire,
or the river gives itself unto the sea,
as when salt dissolves, it becomes the Ocean,
when the Ego dissolves,
we become Shiva and Shakti.
The Lover, out of boundless love,
has become the Beloved...
-- Kalipadma
Enticed is the bee of my mind/
By the black lotus feet of my Divine Mother./
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