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

[Ian Livingston]

He points a finger and seems to say, "Look! There is what I cannot say."

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:01 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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