Often, it drifts into absolute nothingness.
In retrospect, that vision of absolute nothingness was a fitting image for the reckless executive pursuit into which I had just lost myself.
Nishida developed this implication of absolute Nothingness in his Tetsugakuron bunshū ("Philosophical Essays"; 7 vol)., which he wrote after his retirement.
Alone with the devastation of what he'd done at his feet, the absolute nothingness that rang out in the aftermath was profoundly unnerving.
The opposite of Being is Not-Being (to mē eon), which for the Eleatics meant absolute nothingness, the total negation of Being; hence, Not-Being can never be.
For example, Sri Aurobindo, a Hindu mystic-philosopher, speaks of the supreme reality as the "Consciousness-Force"; and Nishida Kitaro, a Japanese philosopher, expresses his apprehension of universal reality as that of "absolute Nothingness".
They are the determinations of absolute nothingness….
Nishida's absolute nothingness is the place beyond discursive determination.
For Tanabe, this posed two serious problems for a genuine philosophy of absolute nothingness.
To the Western ontological question of being, his answer is a meontology of absolute nothingness.
The notion of absolute nothingness recalls Indian ideas as well as Chinese Daoist and Buddhist expressions.
