Could the pivotal point on which this world turns really be impermanence? That our entire existence from beginning to end is based on the everything being out the door before it arrived?
If it was would that define and shape our entire experience while being here? In the sense that if the reason why there’s anything at all is because things need to change in order to be. If change is why nothing lasts.
Making the natural response to this universal predicament to save ourselves and the world from the ravages of change. In the temporal sense of a life extension salvation. Stuck without being able to solve the underlying problem constantly in our face.
Where on the one hand everyone knows. On the other hand the conscious recognition is forbidden. Myths being denial worn to clothe the naked truth.
News, entertainment, business, politics, education. All streaming rooted and grounded in one central theme. A theme that connects all living bodies plant and animal alike.
Rooted and grounded in a one common basic nature of reality. All share the same fate.
Did it begin when emptiness was created out of nothing? Was it the void has always been without beginning and end? No matter if either way there is something rather than nothing.
A ubiquitous starting point. A lossless, spaceless, timeless, formless something. From which it all came to be.
A void compressed twice. Emptiness to energy. Energy to matter.
Involving loss. Loss needed for time and space. Container for all form.
If so, it might be possible to explain why everything encountered has only one driver operating in the background. A string that connects the dots like beads of existence.
Could this be why the need arises to make to make this world a better place? Creating noble myths to give purpose and meaning.
The fight a flight in a world continually moving forward simultaneously creating and destroying itself in what is known as this very moment.
Where all projects intended to change the world for the better conveniently overlook that the problem is this moment is change itself. Because loss makes change possible.
The myth being to pin the blame on the effects of change and not the cause of change. Which works wonders by creating purpose and meaning with goals and missions that’ll hopefully withstand the test of time.
If emptiness is lossless and compressing it involves loss to a resulting distilled state, energy could like liquid emptiness. Then when energy compresses it’d be like emptiness frozen solid in the form of matter’s time and space.
This could account for why there’s something rather than nothing. A corrected question would be to ask why there’s energy and matter rather than emptiness. Because nothing is nothing while emptiness is something.
The dreaded void of lossless emptiness seems hardwired shared to be avoided at all costs. If the purpose of compressing emptiness is for the void to become self-conscious dividing itself into lossless self and other self built on change’s loss.
If so, nothing has moved off square one. Matter is emptiness disguised.
Hiding itself from itself. The job to find it out.
Energy a bridge between energy and matter. Making possible the void able to consciously know itself that some have called “enlightenment.”
Giving rise to why the axis of consciousness turns on an empty hub. Making it possible to try to fix and improve the way things are. Changes not needing to addressing the underlying predicament.
If so, stands to reason the call for change overlooks that change itself is the problem. Making hope for an improved state of world affairs possible. Needed, of course, without question.
Because even if the underlying problem will remain in spite of any change made, new possibilities for how to deal with having a body built on the axis of loss can help. Giving meaning and purpose to one’s existence.
What enlightenment might do is make conscious why there is a universal predicament that drives the way everything is happening. If so, perhaps an eye opening might at the very least help put an end to the blame game.