SHUNYATA

This is my new word. According to my Osho Zen Tarot book, SHUNYATA means no-thingness. Not Nothingness. What's the difference? No-thingness is not just nothing, it is all. It is vibrant with ALL possibilities. It is potential, absolute potential. It is unmanifest yet, but it contains all.

Beautiful word; beautiful concept. It goes on to say that, "In the beginning is nature, in the end is nature, so why in the middle do you make so much fuss? Why, in the middle, becoming so worried, so anxious, so ambitious - why create such despair?
No-thingness to No-thingness is the whole journey."

Why do we make such a fuss? So when I get stressed or caught up in stupid drama I'm going to use Shunyata as my new mantra to remind me. I'll let you know if it works!

I watched the 3rd Lord of the Rings last night, again. I've probably seen it 3 or 4 times. What I love about it besides the grand scope of it - peter jackson's amazing vision, the characters, and of course Tolkien's gorgeous imagination - every time I watch it I get something new out of it. Last night it was when Gandolf said, "it's the deep breath before the plunge," about the silence before all hell breaks loose.

Don't know really why it struck me except for that i feel like I'm waiting, I've been waiting for a long time for things to change. And maybe it's about to...