Everything written on this site can be briefed up to an extent that it can be written on a small piece of paper. So, why to write a lot more when you can say the same with fewer words, with just an article or essay? Well, mostly it is because you want to sell your words to earn some money but other than that there’s one more reason.
To convey information, few words are enough, but to convey the understanding you may need a lot, a lot of words and even then you can never be sure that the job is well done. Books are the efforts to share your understanding with the world; at least some of them are. Now, obviously books are not the only way to share understanding, we try to do it with many different mediums.
A large part of media and internet is dedicated to share understanding. It feels like you have accomplished something great if you can make someone relate to your understanding, but on the back of understanding what we are really trying to share is our realizations. Realizations are even more abstract in nature than understanding. It’s easy to share information and it’s little difficult to share understanding, but it’s really strenuous and arduous to share your realizations.
An absurd conclusion
Every direction you take in the observations and enquiry of this world will take you to an absurd destination, a conclusion which doesn’t make sense, a paradox. What is, is not supposed to be, so what is supposed to be then? ABSOLUTLY NOTHING. The question that has haunted many clever minds is how is there anything rather than nothing? Everything points to the absence of everything and everything is a proof of its own absence.
It’s not just the conclusion of everything but the whole existence of everything screams in silence that there can be nothing and here nothing doesn’t mean empty space, it means the absence of everything even emptiness. However, something that is absolutely nothing cannot exist itself either, because there is no variable left to exist, there is nothing, you can’t even imagine this kind of. There is nothing left to imagine, no space, no darkness, no emptiness, no time and not even the lack of time.
Maybe that’s why there is no “nothing”. What should be cannot be, hence what shouldn’t be, is, because there is no alternative left. Maybe everything is, because “nothing” as it cannot exist. But even this does not answer how, only why, although, it seems that how was never the real question here, it only appears to be because of our conditioning that determines how we look at things. Sometimes there is only why, no “how”, no “where” and no “what”.
Clear understanding
I can make you understand even the most complicated ideas given enough time, but I am not confident that I can make you realize the same. Realizations are powerful things, even if my own realization is flawed or wrong, if you can realize my realization, if you can come close to it, you may see exactly why and how I came to that realization.
Realizations don’t change you straight away, however, once you have seen something there is no way to unseen it. Now it will stay inside you like a seed, and it will grow slowly but surely.
But as I said you can’t share your realizations that easily, most you can do is to try to make the other person understand what your realization is. To share understanding one needs to try to make sense. If what makes sense to you makes sense to the other person too, you may be able to share your understanding, but even then, it is not a necessity that you will be able to share your realization too.
If other person’s sentiments and preferences are not aligned with the understanding you have given them, they will find a way or argument to go around that. This is the reason why explaining the same exact thing to two different people generate two different reactions even after their equal understanding level.
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To share yourself
For realization to happen understanding should come with no other options. When there is no scope for preferences and interests and when there is no escape route to which one can jump to, only then realization hits at its best. For this understanding is the first requirement, without clear understanding, nothing further can happen.
So, for a realization to happen crystal clear understanding is necessary, because once you clearly understand, you are left with no choice or options automatically. The deeper the truth is, the dangerous it is. Dangerous to what we believe and dangerous to what we are. Here to escape or to save yourself don’t try to dig deeper, don’t try to understand the truth behind the truths and don’t try to look behind the veil, although, chances are you will never find anything real enough to disturb you.
Was it worth it.
But, if you succeed, you are going to lose your faith, not in the God or the world but in yourself and in your reality, in hope and in existence. Walls will still be walls and yet they won’t be. The problem is that these realizations are not of God or some out of the world bliss; these are the realizations of shear absurdity and meaninglessness. They don’t destroy your perception but your faith in it.
Normally, the words that everything is basically nothing and the world is nothing, but a persistent illusion are just that, words. To say that everything is just an expression of oblivion and absence and yet you are something bound to be constantly hanged in between, is nothing in itself. To say that this is the reason that existence is nothing, but misery is just a hollow sentence.
But these words with the understanding of same are a completely different matter, because with this understanding comes the realization and with the realization, there is no going back.
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The point of it.
So, what is the point of knowing these kinds of truths? People have asked me this question many times, what purpose does this serve? They do not serve much purpose, other than showing there is not any purpose anyway. Maybe they can free you from many hectic and heavy burdens of purposes you are already carrying. But that isn’t the point here; it doesn’t matter even if they do nothing for you. We are curious by nature and therefore we are bound to search and stumble upon these truths from time to time. We just can’t help it.
We by ourselves may never realize these truths in our entire lives, however, we will search for them knowingly or unknowingly our entire lives, so it’s not about “what” here either, it’s also only about “why”.
