This is because nothingness remains an abstraction, a negation signifying what being is not in Wang Bi's interpretation, and as such cannot bring about creation.
Because "nothingness" (or nihilation) is just what consciousness is, there can be no objects in consciousness, but only objects for consciousness.[16] This means that consciousness is radically free, since its structure precludes that it either contain or be acted on by things.
Not because it is "nothingness" but because it is "no-thing", something so real and yet utterly impossible to turn into a "thing", a word, a concept, a description of an ineffable experience.
'It is not good to talk about Zen because Zen is nothingness..
God cannot, however, add even one additional species of reality ad inferius, between prime matter and pure nothingness, not because this exceeds his power but because prime matter is contiguous to nothingness and leaves, so to speak, no room for God to exercise his power (Côté 2009).
At the base of the Kabbalistic view of the world there is an option of faith: it is by a voluntary decision that the unknowable Deity who is "nothing" or "nothingness" (nonfinite) because he is a fullness of being totally inaccessible to any human cognition sets into motion the process that leads to the visible world.
It is "because this is absolute nothingness," Nishida writes in the parlance of Zen, "that the mountain is mountain, the river is river, and all beings are just as they are" (NKZ V, 182; see Nishida 1958, 137).
In addition, human consciousness is the source of the "not" because it is itself a "nothingness".
The economy may still recover but it will take much longer to come back because there will be unending nothingness happening and the working poor will suffer even further.
It's good to be violent and pray to death gods like the Skulls, because that's better than nothingness, and sometimes that's all we're left with".
Many of them, just like the year-round residents, also find the winter here attractive because of its exaggerated bleakness and beautiful nothingness.
