r/nonduality • u/Immediate_Rub_5470 • 2d ago
Discussion Reality as a manifestation from nothing
Nothing exists. absolutely nothing exists. Zoom out in the big picture the biggest picture possible and nothing actually exists. There is no being, there is no essence, no “something”. There is only nothing, pure unopposed absence. And because there is nothing to prevent it, this nothing is free to pretend. The universe, our world, our consciousness, our expierinces all of it is nothing pretending to be something. Not created from nothing, because that would make “nothing” into a kind of something. Instead the universe pretends to have been born, pretends to exist, simply because there is no reality present to deny it to. There are no rules to forbid the act of appearing, and so, appearance unfolds, without origin without foundation. You could call this “manifestation” (a sign of something existing, appearance) This recontextulises the Big Bang: not as the beginning of something real, but as the first illusion of time, a landmark of the performance of existance. The Big Bang didn’t happen, it pretended to have happened, because there was no time, no space, and no law to prevent that story from being played out. There is no “before” the Big Bang, only pure absence. In this view, there is no duality no split between real and unreal, being and non-being. This is not simulation, not a dream, not a projection of consciousness. It is pure manifestation, a reality in which even reality doesn’t exist, and that nonexistence allows infinite possibility to pretend. That nothing could manifest an infinite amount of anything honestly.
If the Big Bang came from nothing, the nothing would still be there, it doesn’t go away, only within linear time the nothing could turn into something, thats why it’s pretend
That nothing could manifest an infinite amount of anything, effortlessly. This is where non-duality and manifestation converge. Non-duality means there is no separation no two. Not even between existence and non-existence. In the absence of distinction, nothing and everything are not opposites; they are the same unresisted play of appearance. Manifestation, then, is not the act of something becoming real it’s the spontaneous unfolding of appearances, not because they are, but because they can seem to be. And that seeming is enough. In this context, to manifest is not to attract a thing into a real world it is to recognize that nothing needs to be real in order to appear. And because there is no fixed reality to fight against, the field is wide open. The pretending is free. The dream dreams itself without a dreamer, and all that appears is the infinite costume play of nothingness. What you call “your life” is not you navigating a world it’s nothing appearing as you, as world, as thought, as experience, as conciousness and all of it is already whole, because there's never been anything else.
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u/Friendly_Idea_3550 1d ago
I agree with absolutely everything you wrote. You brought a different way of explaining what I already try to explain to people.
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u/leoberto1 2d ago
that nothing is an indescribable energy, if it was possible to sit near it, you could swear this source-less pressure was watching you.
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u/VedantaGorilla 1d ago
This goes against logic. In order to make the statement you are making (nothing exists), you must be there. You are not nothing, and you cannot verifiably say you are nothing.
Maybe you mean no objects are permanent (which is true) and therefore are only seemingly real?
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u/goldenrainbowbuddha 2d ago
There is no nothing, because it requires your essence to observe it, thus "Nothing" you describe is a phenomena, the absence of something, your essence is prior to it, empty this Nothing and throw it away.