Erin, that was a very interresting blog entry. While you surely didn't have any enthusiasm about melting with the void, you have to realize that many eastern theologies are based on only one hope : reaching this point, reaching Nirvana. I caoont believe this can be too horrible, except for people not ready/willing, or people who like their stand in the illusion of reality. As you guessed, I dont like my stand in this illusion. That being said, I will be wise enough to inform myself as to what I didn't like when I die: was it my life (which case I might decide to move on and experience the different wavelengths), or was it deeper (in which case I could decide to un-exist, as we said in my previous thread)?
Besides, and as JohnR said, Nothing and Everything are the same concept. This is the intimate relationship between zero and infinite that I was talking about earlier. All those who want to really feel "at one with God" have no choice: they have to dissipate.
Dharma, love was created out of desire. Whether love existed before time and space, I don't know, but love is not what "is" in the sense that it is not a preexistent condition: pure void energy is, and this energy does not need feelings. As a matter of facts, this energy in its absolute form is probably not "sentient" as we understand it, and it probably does not need self-awareness either. Why would it? It is not a divinity in the sense that it does not (in its purest form) need express a desire to creation and a love of creation. Yet it pre-exists space, time and consciousness.
That's probably what they mean when they say that God said "I am". Had the energy sit still and not realized its own existence/non-existence, it wouldn't have become a divinity and we wouldn't be paying taxes and getting bones broken...
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