i am extermely okay with this statement as it provides a very fresh look at my state

One of many problems actually because they clearly use brain washing techniques during their seminars…

Jun 25
Nothing
From nothing, I came.
From nothing, I am.
From nothing, I speak.
From nothing, I act.

Without history or reason,
belief or denial,
I am a clearing for all that is yearning to be.
I am a clearing for all possibility.

Thoughts will come and
thoughts can go.
But to nothing I return,
and from nothing I emerge.

For nothing is the space between
the Divine spark.
The rest between two notes.

Nothing asks for nothing
and gets nothing in return.
A pureness of reciprocity.

From nothing the wave rises
and to nothing the wave falls.
From calm to storm to calm again.

From nothing the cloud forms, lightning strikes and
rain falls.
Followed again by the clearing, static-free sky.

From nothing my purest heart speaks
and these words on this page came.

And though words fill up your head
and may move your heart and stir your soul,
these too, return like you,
to nothing.

So let us celebrate this nothingess.
So that this space and peace and rest
may arise
and dissolve,
from nothing.
To nothing.

I always believed life was empty and meaningless..and that we humans give meaning to it. It’s very true. Take a look at all the ephemeral joys we go through…they all die sooner or later…and then we find a new meaning to life and move on. Yes WE are the ones who find that meaning. If not, left alone life is empty.

Excellent post here!

Keshi.

If you think of it this way, life is meaningless in itself, but we create a perceived meaning to it. Just like objects don’t really have a color, they just happen to obsorb a certain wavelength of light, which is then interpretted a certain way by our eyes, which leads us to create “that object is color X”.

Let me know how your debate goes!

Thank you!

Eventually he convinced me to take it at a time when I had decided to really focus on changing my job situation. He couldn’t explain how the Forum would effect that, but he tought the course would be very beneficial for me.

As the weeks before my Forum became days, I started to ask myself, “What did I sign up for?” I had no idea what this course was about other than some clever statements made in the intro session, which I had integrated into my life years ago. And yet everyone talked about the course as if it was an earth shattering experience.

Finally, a day or two before the course began, I said to my friend, “Why am I paying $550, taking a day off of work, and devoting my first free weekend in two years to this thing? What is it I’m buying? What is this third day epiphany or excercise?” My friend didn’t want to tell me. He thought it would ruin the surprise. I told him I really didn’t care and in fact I insisted. I was tired of all the hocus pocus mystery about this thing. I got that it was experiential. But I also got that all signs pointed toward it giving me an experience that I’d already had at other times in my life. So he let the cat out of the bag. The whole point of the Forum is that life is empty and meaningless.

To which I said, yeah, and? Tell me something I don’t know. This is not news to me. I’ve had truly existential experiences in my life that have put that lesson into sharp relief. But my friend strongly urged me to go.

So I went to day one. After about eight hours I finally said, “Why aren’t these people getting it? I can’t sit around for three days waiting for people to get it. They all want to go up to the microphone, have the instructor analyze their lives, and come out whole. Don’t they realize they can just sit in their chair and do that themselves? What do they think this instructor is going to tell them other than, “It’s up to you whether you want to be upset about your situation?” He doesn’t know them. What more could he tell them?

So I decided the only reason I was staying at that point was to make my friend happy and to avoid being rude. Since neither of those was a good reason for being there, I left.

My friend remained. She was skeptical like me, but by day three, she seemed like she’d drank the kool-aid. I insisted she tell me what the critical day three excercise was, and she told me it was that the instructor told everyone life was empty and meaningless. Apparently being locked up in a room for three days in uncomfortable chairs hearing the problems of the world echo in your head makes that statement earth shattering.

I’m really dying to know what the state of mind in the room is before that moment, because I don’t get why any of the Forum’s lessons are earth shattering or paradigm shifting. What has happened to these people in the previous two and a half days to not only make that statement change their entire outlook on life, but to start believing that only by doing the Forum can one have that experience? It sounds like a carny trick.

Life really is empty and meaningless, until you decide what you want to fill it up with.

Thanks for stopping by. At the exact right time, because I’m doing the forum again tomorrow morning, and this just reminded me what a fun adventure the forum really is. I’m glad you got “nothing” out of this.

“LIFE IS NOT EMPTY AND MEANINGLESS!!!” She exclaimed. “Right”, said the moderator. “Life is NOT empty and meaningless. BUT Life is empty and meaningless AND it’s empty and meaningless that it’s empty and meaningless.” Wow, she couldn’t let this nugget go for 3 days. On day 3, she finally “got it”, and brought in t-shirts for all the moderators to wear, and it was such a funny moment. The important thing is – And this is what she finally got – That this is not religious, and has nothing to do with G-d. It’s just that we all give our own meaning to things, and that meaning doesn’t automatically come along attached to the moment, but we assign our own meaning, to something that in its original form, had no meaning at all. So – everything we get is empty and meaningless – UNTIL we give it it’s meaning and purpose. OR until we give ourselves meaning and purpose. I haven’t had the opportunity to chew on this one lately, and the funny thing is, you reminded me of it at just the right time.

Today, I had a project I’d put my heart and soul into for four months fall apart at the very last moment. In that instant, it meant I had failed. It meant that the world was against me. It meant so many things – and now, after reading your blog, I just realized it didn’t mean any of those things at all. It meant nothing. It happened. Things happen. Some things work, some don’t. This didn’t. It was empty and meaningless, until I gave it meaning. Now, it just means I tried my best. And will continue to do so, regardless of the outcome.
thanks – I really needed that.

it’s like the story where a general burnt his ships so that his soldiers can fight all out.

I like this.

In love, light and abundance x x x

Lola Fayemi

Don’t worry, more is on the way, so come back soon. =)

I think the abovementioned problems that Christians might have with this paradigm is that they believe that God has a plan for everything, no matter what we think. In essence- the idea that *we* decide the meaning of our life is contrary to their belief that *God* decides. So it would be hard for them to adopt this ‘me-based’ theory, because they are hung on a ‘God-based’ theory.

Good stuff. Keep up the posts!

- Jaden
http://www.undergroundunrest.com/blog