Black
We have different means to convey our messages like pictures, voices, touch and many more. Each means has its own limitation though. No matter how hard we try to convey messages, their interpretation is done by the receiver, and if receiver chooses not to interpret what can one do about it? Nothing.
Not really. "Nothing" is represented consistently and any of senses can interpret equally, that too without being taught to sense it. Silence can be deafening but is experienced equally by all of us well, and even by a deaf. Dumb can convey nothing easily by not saying nothing. Black is seen by all of us and even by a blind.
Really you can represent nothing with nothing and still get it conveyed to anyone without any false interpretation. We don't need any senses and to all our senses nothing means the same. No other knowledge has this much consistency.
Following is one of Khalil Gibran's essays.
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled with blue mist. Is it not beautiful?"
The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, "But where is any mountain? I do not hear"
Then the Hand spoke and said, "I am trying in vain to feel it or touch it, and I can find no mountain"
And the Nose said, "There is no mountain, I cannot smell it"
Then the Eye turned the other way, and they all began to talk together about the Eye's strange delusion. And they said, "Something must be the matter with the Eye"
Zero means a lot more than it meant earlier. Black is more than just a colour to me now.
Nothing..?
Not really. "Nothing" is represented consistently and any of senses can interpret equally, that too without being taught to sense it. Silence can be deafening but is experienced equally by all of us well, and even by a deaf. Dumb can convey nothing easily by not saying nothing. Black is seen by all of us and even by a blind.
Really you can represent nothing with nothing and still get it conveyed to anyone without any false interpretation. We don't need any senses and to all our senses nothing means the same. No other knowledge has this much consistency.
Following is one of Khalil Gibran's essays.
THE EYE
Said the Eye one day, "I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled with blue mist. Is it not beautiful?"
The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, "But where is any mountain? I do not hear"
Then the Hand spoke and said, "I am trying in vain to feel it or touch it, and I can find no mountain"
And the Nose said, "There is no mountain, I cannot smell it"
Then the Eye turned the other way, and they all began to talk together about the Eye's strange delusion. And they said, "Something must be the matter with the Eye"
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Zero means a lot more than it meant earlier. Black is more than just a colour to me now.
Nothing..?
posted by Chandrasing at
10:50 PM
3 Comments:
Nothing is like zero and Something is like point tends to infinity. There is line which joins these to points. Each one having unique line of their own.
Here
Something is state.
Nothing is state.
Senses acts like x and y values which try to build equation of that line.
And The Line is your understanding.
Nothing is a singular point, which does not need any kind of explanation or prior knowledge to be applied. Is it same with something? May be.., but we have not reached that level yet. The level where understanding by all of us converge to a single line of understanding.
Its nice to read the other side of nothing.
I think both silence and nothing can again be totally different experiences by different people. For example, if someone works in a noisy factory, just the absence of the noise is silence for this person and for someone in meditation even the air could be a lot of sound.
As long as we are bound to the 6 sense organs i.e. 5 sense organs and the mind experience will differ.
Again for a blind, how would he/she know the colour is black? I mean unless one sees light he/she can understand darkness, unless one experiences cold he/she can understand heat, unless one sees white can he/she understand black.
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