Alan Watts – The Beauty of Nothingness

so if you really go the whole way and see how you feel at the prospect of finishing for of all your efforts and all your achievements and your all your attainments turning into dust and nothingness what is the feeling what happens to you that's what it's going to all come to and for some reason or other we're supposed to find this depressing [Music] do you see in a way how that is saying the most real state is the state of nothing but if somebody is going to argue that the basic reality is nothingness where does all this come from obviously from nothing once again you get how it looks behind your eyes [Music] see see so in this way by seeing that nothingness is the fundamental reality and you see it's your reality then how can anything contaminate all the idea of your being scared and put out and worried and so on is just nothing it's a dream because you're really nothing but this is the most incredible nothing so cheer up you see the essence of your mind is intrinsically pure pure means clear void [Music] see if you think of this nothingness as mere blankness and you hold on to the idea of blankness and kind of grizzly about it you haven't understood it he said nothingness is really like the nothingness of space which contains the whole universe all the sun moon and stars and the mountains and rivers and the good men and the bad men and the animals and the insect the whole bit all are contained in the void so out of this void comes everything and you are it what else could you be