I Am Nothing; I Am Everything!
Why, or Why Not?
2007-06-18 16:04:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am nothing in the vastness of this universe.
I am everything to my current life of illusion.....for this is my illusion and these are my choices.
I must take responsibility for this moment in my life, but I must allow everyone else to be as big or as small as they choose to be in the spaciousness of this thing we call life.
2007-06-18 16:10:52 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, truly I am nothing...nothing but a mixture of 5 Skandhas which are impermanent and forever in a state of change.
Yet this is not the true "me" and my true self, my Mind also is not everything. This lays hidden, overwhelmed and rarely does my Impermanent Consciousness become aware that this exists, yet it exists, silent, unaware, radiant yet bound by my Consciousness and it's grip on my awareness. Here, within, it awaits... it is Nibbana...Nibbana is everything.....it is everything, the goal, yet in truth it is nothing, nothing to do with me or I, it is awareness, awareness and Compassion and Love, Mindfulness alone and undaunted...
I must choose to free it, I continue to practise....discarding "self" through Mindfulness Practise is the key....if only I would use the key to more effect....then Nibbana will be revealed...
Peace from a Buddhist....
2007-06-23 21:31:49 · answer #2 · answered by Gaz 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I'm not better than anyone. I can disintegrate so easily. I am often all that I have to keep myself going and safe. Even then, I am everything but I am nothing without God.
2007-06-25 12:27:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have experienced feeling like nothing and it has made me know that in truth we are everything because we are able to rescue ourselves and others from the empty abyss of nothingness to bring great light and hope into this world.
2007-06-18 17:48:52 · answer #4 · answered by Fluffy Wisdom 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because in comparison to the whole world, my worth is nothing, people like me are born every second. Yet to me my life is everything because it's the only one I'll ever get.
2007-06-18 16:07:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are some Eastern beliefs that teach that we all came from nothing - the great abyss where all creation began.
The best way my mind can wrap around it is like this....
black is the color of creation - it is the color of the womb where creation begins.
It is nothing- yet everything
Peace.
2007-06-18 16:12:23 · answer #6 · answered by Kaybee 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I can. I am nothing in the grand scheme of life but I am everything to my soul.
2007-06-18 16:14:04 · answer #7 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I looked deep within myself and was dismayed for I could not find who I thought I was, so I am nothing. Later on the truth of myself became apparent suddenly and I am everything! ~ : )
2007-06-18 17:24:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i am nothing is easy--no thing ness.my personality wasn't that much when i was a child,i could sit for hours with out thinking and Baily remembered my name .
being ,every thing, is much more difficult
i believe i can temporarily identify with the part of the goddess that is every thing, but being a ego [a thing] i wouldn't want to be every thing because i would no longer be ME. and i like me,ness
2007-06-19 18:57:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! With out God I am nothing but with his strenght that lives in my I am and deserve everything.
Galatians 2:20 - 2:21 NLT
20 My old self has been crucified with Christ.[a] It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
2007-06-18 16:15:10 · answer #10 · answered by justtryingtohelp 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋