"As Quine puts it in “On What There Is,” “nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not?” (1948, pp. 1–2)." (Alyssa Ney, Metaphysics)

We are all over the place in our ruminations this morning.

Our take is that the only way where nonbeing could not be is in a universe where there was no intelligence to imagine nonbeing.

#logic #metaphysics #philosophy #Quine #being #nonbeing

knock down the wall around your heart / made of brick and fear / it's trapped you in and the world out

#EgoLess #EgoDeath #Nonbeing #Nonexistence

/ words by #GreenTeam
/ art in collaboration with #midjourney

The snare of separation is cast everywhere,
Time like an evil djinn stands everywhere
As though a shoreless reflection of the universe,
At times becoming deception of thought, at times unthinkingly the awareness of beauty
Making the powerless gaze of the hunted realize:
My trace of nonbeing is apparent from each thing,
Nonbeing, too, begs me—it is alive and breathing from my might
from "Nonbeing" by Miraji
#poetry #nonbeing #emptiness #dharma

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