Anonymous
6/19/2025, 5:22:20 AM No.1530653
I'm trying to put a name to a philosophy I encountered this evening; it's like some sort of inverted Eastern idea that goes like this: everything is nothing and the existence you are experiencing now is just *nothing* forgetting that it is nothing (described as a "cloud of forgetting"). Because you are nothing, all words / thoughts / experiences you are having about this fact are meaningless because at the bottom of it all it's actually just nothing.
It was described here on a live stream by Dr. Zubin (ZDoggMD) who typically espouses more traditional Buddhist-like ideas, but pretty suddenly had come to this conclusion. The initial prompt used to present this idea was "consider the fact that you are already dead, already nothing, so what is this?" (to which the implied answer is "nothing"). I'm pretty open to various cosmologies and philosophical concepts, but haven't run into something like this.
It was described here on a live stream by Dr. Zubin (ZDoggMD) who typically espouses more traditional Buddhist-like ideas, but pretty suddenly had come to this conclusion. The initial prompt used to present this idea was "consider the fact that you are already dead, already nothing, so what is this?" (to which the implied answer is "nothing"). I'm pretty open to various cosmologies and philosophical concepts, but haven't run into something like this.
