has anyone ever really just thought about nothing for a couple of hours im talking pure nothing no objects no light no dark not even color what if there was just nothing at all what would it look like, what would it feel like. I tryed meditating on this but you really cant even if your head is clear there still is something even a color i feel like knowing what nothing is, is like knowing what life means. It's odd but give me your opinion on this
Everytime I don't have noise around me and I try to quiet my mind, I hear this faint sound that sounds like when the tv goes out. Not static but, that long beep sound.
Soulfire130 don't listen loud music.
Thinking nothing, well you just can concentrate on your breathing, months of practice needed trough meditation, but than again it's not nothing.
Of course nothing exists. The hard vacuum of intersellar space is about a good an example of nothing as it is possible to imagine. Nothing also exists as a concept: the numeral "0" represents "nothing," and it is arguably the most important numeral we have.
The question is, why would you consider it a valuable, or even useful practice to meditate on nothing?
Well the reason I meditate on nothing is because it was the way I was taught to meditate. But I had a discussion similar about this in one of my classes were everyone was suppose to name something that has nothing in it. Some things said were; space, an empty bag, a hungry stomach. And during this whole thing I really thought about it and it just came to me that nothing is about the most complicated thing I could ever think of. But i'm just looking for opinions on it
Truthfully meditating on nothing is not going to help you and thinking that it would was a waste of time.
We can not comprehend what nothing would be like because our very existence, the very thought of nothing is something.
Being, is something...
We are being.
To be nothing is impossible.
We can not experience the feeling of nothing but we can understand it; if there was nothing we wouldn't feel, see, taste, hear, know anything. We wouldn't know that we're nothing. It is non-individualistic. We would be we. There would just be nothing. As said, the very being, the very existence of individual knowledge disallows us to cope the "feeling" of nothing.
"Well the reason I meditate on nothing is because it was the way I was taught to meditate."
Hmmm. Your instructor didn't understand meditative practice as well as he thought he did. It's not supposed to be thinking about nothing: it's supposed to be not thinking about those things which pertain to the world of the senses and the physical body. Which is far more difficult to both teach and do.
