![]() ![]() Yet this separate self is by nature unachievable, it is inherently unstable, instantly collapsing.Įvery idea of who we are is created from transient, ever changing thought that appears and disappears. We go in search of what we believe will distinguish us, separate us, give meaning to this separate self. Well perhaps now we can consider that when we live from the idea of a separate self, our life is an attempt to do the impossible – stabilise and secure a vacuum. ![]() Now what? And how does this relate to what I want? How will it get me that new car and a date and a pay rise? ![]() Anything will be pulled in – pills, drugs, alcohol, sex, porn, work, exercise, food, possessions, money, houses, people, approval – to make that intolerable, impossible idea of separation disappear. It is the same with a self that believes it is separate. Anything around it is pulled in because empty space cannot exist. When a vacuum is created in a laboratory it collapses instantly. The state of separation is so intolerable, so unachievable that it must obliterate itself. It cannot exist as a separate entity.Īny attempt to separate it is essentially the attempt to create a stable vacuum in nature. The self is other people, the world, nature, its environment. This is because the self is everything it experiences. When we try to separate ourself we create a state so empty, fragile, unstable and impossible that it has to immediately disappear. ‘That sounds a bit insulting Clare’ you might say ‘Are you calling me empty space? Are you saying I’m needy? Unstable? That I can’t exist?’ Let’s start with the fact that the separate human self is essentially a vacuum. ![]() Trying to separate out from everything creates a state so profoundly unstable that it immediately disappears.Īnd this has profound implications for us and what we want. Nothing cannot exist in nature because nature immediately fills that nothing with something. It is the attempt to create a nothingness within the all pervasive somethingness of the universe. The definition of a vacuum is true empty space – an environment with nothing in it. ![]()
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