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Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology (1943) is a philosophical treatise by Jean-Paul Sartre that is regarded as the beginning of the growth of existentialism in the 20th century. The French title is L'Être et le Néant. Its main purpose was to define the consciousness as transcendent and to advocate rationalism. The work also sought to disprove George Berkeley's famous conten ... Including:

• Being and Nothingness - Analysis
• Being and Nothingness - Connection to No Exit
• Being and Nothingness - Satre's Solution

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Summit of Nothingness (wu-chi): Taoist concept of the realm of nonexistence from which all things emerge and then return (fu); Neo-Confucianists such as Chou Tun-i and Chu Hsi identified the Summit of Nothingness with the Great Ultimate (t'ai-chi).

 
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Sunyata (Sanskrit). Void, space, nothingness. The name of our objective universe in the sense of its unreality and illusiveness.

 
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The Hebrew version of "the Void". Nothingness (i.e. "The Other Universe" whence this one derives).
 

 
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Buddhist Quotes: There Is a Sphere
 
There is a sphere where there is neither earth nor water nor heat nor air, for it is beyond the field of matter; nor is it the sphere of infinite space, or consciousness, for it is beyond the field of mind. There is not the condition of nothingness, neither is there the state of this world or another world, nor sun nor moon. This is the uncreated.
 
 This condition I call neither arising nor passing away, neither dying nor being born. It is without form and without change. It is the eternal, which never originates and never passes away. To find it is the end of sorrow.
 
- Udana Sutta

 
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There'sa crooked line drawn on land: One side of it is called India, the other side, Pakistan. People living on either side of this human made line could well kill one another - in fact, precious lives have been sacrificed to ensure that the line stays where it is.
 
You cannot have only peace, only love or only light, how much ever you wish it were so. Yin and Yang, Shiv and the Shakti, Krishna and Radha, are in perfect equilibrium in the cosmos. Their play is this universe, without and within. This unceasing play of opposites generates infinite hues. Murder and mayhem exist; so do loving and caring.

 
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In the language of yoga, the purpose or the effect of continuous nada sadhana on the human mind is ananda - extreme bliss.
 
Nada, or sound, is divided into two parts - aahada and anhada, heard and unheard. Heard means that which is possible for you to hear 'through the physical ears', and unheard means 'felt', which is the condition of nada before it is musically shaped and regularised. Then come the shrutis, then swaras, notes, which from time to time have been explained by the masters.

 
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Nirvikalpa samādhi ( निर्विकल्प समाघि ), sometimes also spelled as ‘Nirbikalpa Samadhi’, is the highest state of samādhi, in which the aspirant realizes his/her total oneness with Brahma. It has been described as a state of absolute nothingness. One is said to be in a state of Nirvikalpa samadhi “when only the knowledge of unbroken reality remains, and the mind dissolves itself in the cosmic consciousness." Nirvikalpa - The realization. Attaining th ... Including:

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Although clearly influenced by Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, Being and Nothingness represents a significant departure to the extent that Sartre was more or less indifferent to Heidegger's central concern with Being. Additionally, Sartre was profoundly skeptical of any measure by which humanity could achieve a kind of personal state of fulfilment comparable to the hypothetical Heideggerian re-encounter with Being. In his much gloomier account in Being and Nothingness, man is a creature haunted by a vision of "completion," w ...

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