This

January 31, 2025

This ...

This is everything. This is all there is. There isn't anything more. There's nothing less. There's nothing before or after this. And this itself is nothing, too.

This doesn't change. So appearances change. Things appear to change. Things seem to change. Everything that happens seems to be a new happening. And things that happen seem to appear and then disappear. But that's just how it seems.

This---There isn't a good word for it. In non duality, there's various words that speakers and writers have tried to use to express this inexpressible happening that doesn't happen. The all that isn't. Everything and nothing.

It's not expressible, of course, because it's totally paradoxical, because it's both everything and nothing. Because it is and it isn't.

There isn't a word for this, but I use the word this because I can't find a better one. But there isn't a this.

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