Notes on Nothing: The Joy of Being Nobody
The author of this book has chosen to remain anonymous. The story of who they are is not important. This could be anyone’s story.
It could be yours.
Author's Note:
“This is a book about Nothing.
You could also say it’s a book about Everything.
Most accurately perhaps, it’s a book about Nothing-as-Everything and Everything-as-Nothing.
It takes as its spine an account of a specific experience that seemed to happen to me, during which there wasn’t very much ‘Me’ around. There have been many names given to these kinds of ‘non-experiences’ depending on what tradition or view-point they are being seen from.
Here let’s call it a meeting with Nothing, that never actually happened ...”
The author of this book has chosen to remain anonymous. The story of who they are is not important. This could be anyone’s story.
It could be yours.
Author's Note:
“This is a book about Nothing.
You could also say it’s a book about Everything.
Most accurately perhaps, it’s a book about Nothing-as-Everything and Everything-as-Nothing.
It takes as its spine an account of a specific experience that seemed to happen to me, during which there wasn’t very much ‘Me’ around. There have been many names given to these kinds of ‘non-experiences’ depending on what tradition or view-point they are being seen from.
Here let’s call it a meeting with Nothing, that never actually happened ...”
The author of this book has chosen to remain anonymous. The story of who they are is not important. This could be anyone’s story.
It could be yours.
Author's Note:
“This is a book about Nothing.
You could also say it’s a book about Everything.
Most accurately perhaps, it’s a book about Nothing-as-Everything and Everything-as-Nothing.
It takes as its spine an account of a specific experience that seemed to happen to me, during which there wasn’t very much ‘Me’ around. There have been many names given to these kinds of ‘non-experiences’ depending on what tradition or view-point they are being seen from.
Here let’s call it a meeting with Nothing, that never actually happened ...”