nothingness?

Ta-Wan

Why should there be something that we call nothingness?

Nothing is a concept built from the idea that there is a thing called something.

Seen as it is though 'something' is almost entirely empty. At the smallest scales, we can see that all of the stuff around us is made of atoms which are 99.999% empty.

Emptiness is not though empty. At the smallest scales, emptiness is teeming with stuff just as valid as the stuff we say forms 'something'.

The difference between nothing and something is not real. We can not rightly refer to nothingness as any meaningful thing.

Of course, from a Taoist stance, something and nothing would be said to be mutually arising and not valid as separate things. There is though much theory in such widely separate fields as religion and science referring to nothing all the time, as if it were a valid thing to fathom!

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