As soon as you say there was a beginning,
you must say there was something before the beginning.
As soon as you say there was something before the beginning,
you must say there was nothing before the something.
As soon as you say there was nothing
before the something before the beginning,
you must say there was no nothing before that nothing.
This is the limit of ordinary rational (ordinal ratio) consciousness:
that there is no nothing before the nothing
before the something before the beginning.
What a mess you get into because you say there was a beginning!
As soon as you say here is a this,
you must say there is a that.
As soon as you say there is a that,
you have created a gap, a division.
As soon as you create a division,
you are out of relationship.
As soon as you are out of relationship,
you are alienated.
What a mess you get into
because you say this and that and here and there!
you must say there was something before the beginning.
As soon as you say there was something before the beginning,
you must say there was nothing before the something.
As soon as you say there was nothing
before the something before the beginning,
you must say there was no nothing before that nothing.
This is the limit of ordinary rational (ordinal ratio) consciousness:
that there is no nothing before the nothing
before the something before the beginning.
What a mess you get into because you say there was a beginning!
As soon as you say here is a this,
you must say there is a that.
As soon as you say there is a that,
you have created a gap, a division.
As soon as you create a division,
you are out of relationship.
As soon as you are out of relationship,
you are alienated.
What a mess you get into
because you say this and that and here and there!
Thank you, George, for keeping me on the up and up (as opposed to the up and down). You're right, it is a GRAND mess!
ReplyDeleteThis is all true, and of course the are more examples of the same. The problem seems to be humans' inability to recognize the limits of human intelligence. It's like we think we can know everything if we just think about it long enough ... hell, we can even invent God the way we want Him. But it's just not true. There are aspects of existence ~ or non-existence ~ that the honeybee can comprehend better than we.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to express the slippery slope of duality. No this, No that, No beginning, No ending. Just IS!
ReplyDeletei think this is a rap song in the making. or maybe the beginning of a rap song that had something come before it, such as nothing, or some other stuff.
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i am cracking up.
what a splendid "mess".