My Hero Zero (Nothing to be considered)

Tonight I find myself thinking about nothing (I wish). Actually My thoughts float around the idea of zero.  Funny, as a number and as a concept, zero was first seen in the Mayan civilization(Those ahead-of-their time advance civilization type Mayans again :)) They used the concept of zero as a place holder in their base 20 numerical system.  0 was represented as a shell, 5 as a rod (or line), 1 as a stone or dot.

Why am I thinking about zero? Why does it seem all for naught as it were? 🙂 Earlier tonight a friend tweeted (what one does on twitter) something like “What is good or bad anyway?” The Wheels started turning. At first, I thought, wow relative concepts in a dualistic system but then I went deeper. What constitutes good? I then free-associated  (which was good, these days I can’t pay to associate, it gets too expensive and people tend to look down on it 🙂 ). Good makes us happy, good gives us joy, no, not exactly, good gives us pleasure, ah good is a thing of the ego, what’s good for me is what satisfies me, you satisfy me therefore you are good or what is good for you is what I like, good is the opposite of bad, we split things into two piles good and bad, this pile is better than that one, we discriminate, saying something is good, always involves some form of discrimination, but in a non-dualistic universe, it all becomes very relative, something may feel bad but it exists so we can grow, learn and evolve, it has already happened, it is happening now, it will happen sometime in the future and then we ascribe value to it. It all becomes part of our path, our journey so it becomes equal. So then everything is at the neutral point, the zero point between good and bad.

Then I thought about a cartesian coordinate system where 0 is at the intersection of two lines to form a plane or of three lines to form a cube. So then from zero we can go from width (horizontal) to height (vertical) to depth. From zero, we can jump dimensions, from a zero point emotionally, we can go in any direction, from a zero point emotionally we can jump to any mood, it all seems to be about getting to zero. When we quiet our thoughts in meditation we arrive at zero, from zero comes everything. When we return to 0 we return to infinite potential. Anything can come out of nothing, King Lear’s adage to the contrary.

Also zero is indivisible, therefore non-dualistic…

2 thoughts on “My Hero Zero (Nothing to be considered)”

  1. very goo..err. i mean i see no blog post separated by internet. i see it as all apart of the same source. 😉

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