Zero, Emptiness, Spaciousness, Fullness, etc...

[Mark Kohut]

I also think: one of P's motifs is the failure of words to capture the
ineffable from Lot 49 thru GR passim.
He wants the ineffable to Be.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Reactions to Joseph Tracy's musings:
>
> Words always fail, but such failures are at best poetry, art, love's
> attempts, when expressing the ineffable. The emptiness Joseph relates to
> the zero is multivalent. It is the Source, as in the Space from which all
> being/forms spring.  It is the place before Space, an eminence before
> everything. It is a Fullness, pregnant, ready to explode into all
> possibilities.
>
> In classical Eastern terms it is "not" and "not not."  "Naught" and
> "naught naught."
>
> David Morris
>
>
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