Experiencing the great void | Bernardo Kastrup

Bernardo Kastrup is a metaphysical idealist, arguing that universal phenomenal consciousness is all there ultimately is. He holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering and another in philosophy. Bernardo is also the executive director of the Essentia Foundation.

[gg-orij]

So the void is not really that bad. This is an existential relief.

[ravivaradhan]

What the Nagarjuna refers to as the void is that which does not admit any categorical descriptions such as "It is X; It is not X; It is both X and non-X; It is neither X nor non-X" The void is the Reality that cannot be put into our conventional framework of language and description. The void is not Non-existence.

[HardcoreZen]

The fifth patriarch says, “The Buddha-nature is emptiness, so we call it being
without.” This clearly expresses that emptiness is not non-existence. To
express that the Buddha-nature is emptiness, we do not say it is half a
pound and we do not say it is eight ounces, but we use the words “being
without.” We do not call it “emptiness” because it is void, and we do not
call it “being without” because it does not exist; because the Buddha-nature
is emptiness, we call it “being without.” So real instances of being without
are the standard for expressing “emptiness, ” and emptiness has the power
to express “being without.” This emptiness is beyond the emptiness of
“matter is just emptiness.” [At the same time, ] “matter is just emptiness”
describes neither matter being forcibly made into emptiness nor emptiness
being divided up to produce matter. It may describe emptiness in which
emptiness is just emptiness.
- Dogen Zenji (Bussho "Buddha Nature")

[ayoubzahiri]

“I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble.
I want that love that roared like thunder.
I want that love that will raise the dead.
I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.
I want that love that is the silence of eternity.”

― Rumi

[mrnibelheim]

I have a teacher who claims that "if it's an experience, then that is not it, " since the void has no qualities.
The Buddha claimed that he had been "extinguished, " which seems to suggest exactly that: that there is no entity remaining to report on the experience of the void.
However, as long as we want to talk about it, we seem to be compelled to speak in subject-object terms, and there seems to be no way around this.
So it appears to me that until the void IS the case we are not extinguished, but still hanging by our nails onto some conceptual projection of a future state.

[anthonycotter]

The “Void” is Consciousness, it is the Reality, it is the Source of everything and nothing - it is pure Silence. If you have not experienced it you really can not explain it.

[Pfuetzenspringer]

I once experienced the void. It was absolute nothingness and absolute everything. Opposites are one. That stillness was ear deafening loud. It is IT! YOU are IT!🙏🤲🫶

[Wingedmagician]

I always saw the void as pure potentiality. Not exactly nothing or everything.

[martin-hall-northern-soul]

Perhaps BK would take it a step further on reflection, if there was no excitation of consciousness there wouldn't be any alters to attempt to experience the void. No excitation, no dissociation. No dissociation, no alters and no universe.

[HeloisaAOliveira]

Prajna Pqrqmitq, transcendent wisdom . A pregnant Void ( emptiness. ) Who is there Bernardo?

[HeloisaAOliveira]

Excellent! Ibn Arabi s empirical philosophical core content

[jmerrick]

You experience the void everytime you fall into deep sleep. The void is the source and final end of everything. It is the alpha and Omega.