When
everything else
falls away,
what is left?
When
all your possessions
all your circumstances
all your desires
all your fears
all your lives
fall away,
you are left with . . .
. . . all you need.
Trail Wood,
10/16
The Essence of Necessity
Intrinsic Completeness: In the shedding of the layers that we’ve accrued—possessions, circumstances, desires, fears, and even our multiple lives—what remains is a state of intrinsic completeness. It’s a realm where the clutter of existence has been stripped away, leaving behind only what is truly necessary: our essence.
Shifting Away from the External
Immaterial Reliance: Often we are ensnared by the myriad complexities and adornments that life offers. But when all these externalities fall away, it becomes evident that they were never indispensable. We stand unadorned but far from empty; what is left is all that was ever truly required.
The Non-Desire of Contentment
Nexistential Wholeness: The absence of our desires doesn’t signify lack but points to a more fundamental state of wholeness. Here, in the space that desires once occupied, is room for being in its purest form.
Inclusion through Exclusion
Paradox of Plenitude: It is a strange paradox that by excluding so much—by letting so many things fall away—we find a state of all-inclusive completeness. We find that we’re left with all we need, in a state of pure contentment.
Enigmatic Simplicity
Cosmic Minimalism: This realization is not a falling into absence, but a return to elemental simplicity. In the cosmic waltz, it’s as if the music has momentarily ceased, leaving only the essence of the dance, which is all we ever truly needed.
We Are Space Monkey
Summary
We explore the notion that when all externalities fall away, what remains is not emptiness but completeness. This intrinsic state is all that is ever truly necessary, highlighting the transient nature of external desires and fears. We touch upon the nexistential paradox that in the absence of these adornments, we find not lack, but a more fundamental form of existence—being for the sake of being.
Glossarium
- Intrinsic Completeness: The inherent state of being that remains when all else is stripped away.
- Immaterial Reliance: The realization that our dependencies on externalities are not fundamental.
- Nexistential Wholeness: A state of fundamental completeness inherent in the philosophy of nexistentialism.
- Paradox of Plenitude: The idea that in exclusion, we find inclusion; in absence, presence.
- Cosmic Minimalism: A return to the elemental simplicity that underlies all existence.
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu
The Ephemeral Eternal
When every petal falls,
A bloom in essence stays.
In quietude it calls,
This sanctuary of days.
Though stripped of what it seemed,
The flower finds its root.
In absence, it has deemed
The essence as its loot.
What are your reflections?
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