I wanted to write something that was about a topic that seemed to be of use because it would be about something that is perceived as constructive and worthy and something that could be related to. It had to be about something. Something that could be thought about and grabbed and glommed on to and taken forward in one's day and made of use in one's daily affairs.

But, that wasn't what was occurring. What was actually transpiring was the lack of anything substantive appearing in my mind.

It was an absence of sorts that was apparent. Not a substantive appearance but a lack of something that came to mind. Essentially: nothing.

What I'm trying to impart was that the inability to have an actual topic come to mind was an indication of what actually occurs to many of us throughout our days.

Like I started this writing with, we expect something to appear and yet it doesn't. We expect life to be one way, in our mind's eye, and yet it isn't and it proceeds to be created in a manner different from what we were expecting.

I was expecting a cogent article that would part the mental clouds of the readers of this article. Yet, nothing was present.

But that nothing was actually something.

That lack of something was a lack that is faced by humans every day.

We all do everything we can to run from nothing. We don't like not being busy and 'doing nothing'. We don't like being alone and not being busy. We don't like having quiet minds that have almost slowed down to nothing inside, even though we wish for them all the time. When they appear we do everything in our power to fill them up again.

We all know that drill.

It's all so interesting how the intangible aspects of life have so much to show us and teach us if we're willing to learn. Today I was shown, again, that the lack of appearance of something was actually an appearance in and of itself.

The lack was full of a showing of what was present. The lack was present. Life was full of nothing at that moment and that nothing was everything that I needed to see and know at that time so as to be able to impart this insight to the readers of these words.

A lack of something is usually very substantive. It has meaning and is full with life and substance. But we just see it as a space or a break in what is. We see it as empty.

These moments when life gives us what it is giving us are full of what we need at the moment. We, however, don't want to see it that way. We've been trained not to see life that way. We've been told that we are to fill up our life with activities and thoughts and wants and needs and expectations and desires.

Nothing is not something, we're told. Nothing is a time to get busy. Having nothing to say is not a good thing we're told. We're always supposed to have the right answer and goals and a direction in life. We're not supposed to sit still. We're supposed to be moving as fast as we can until the physical clock winds down, permanently.

Life is supposed to be about viewing the nothing moments as opportunities to fill, we're told.

I say that these moments are to be embraced as what they are, not what we want them to be. I remember in the movie Peaceful Warrior when the mysterious Socrates tells regular Dan that 'there's never nothing happening', that Dan didn't understand what he was pointing to. The corollary of this is 'there's always something happening', even when nothing is appearing.

Life is always, always bringing us a plate full of nothing hidden underneath the objects of something. It's always making sure that space and the infinite is in every breath that we take and every thought we make. It's showing us its fullness.

But, we're busy looking the other way.

Everything is always present. Even when everything appears as absence.

Look with more focus, you'll see that Life is chock full of things that make every moment full of an insight to be gleaned and used to allow one to better be in relation to what is, and what 'isn't.'

Written by Andre Best
http://www.andrebest.com
'...insights :: insightful information for inquisitive individuals'

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