Haikufications of ideas inspired by reading Eckhart Tolle:
In the beginning
nothing existed at all --
nothing to conceive.
Can it be conceived
that no-thing could be some-thing
inconceivable?
After the Big Bang
there appeared this thing called “space.”
Where was it before?
Only after “one”
explodes into “more than one”
does distance appear.
Before the Big Bang
there was no such thing as "sound",
therefore no "silence".
Since there were no ears
present to register sound
was Big Bang misnamed?
The sound of one hand
clapping before the Big Bang
must have been like “Oops!”
Nothing could exist
without space to exist in,
so: is space something?
Nothing is “no thing.”
Space exists, thus "is", therefore,
is nothing something?
After many sounds
we appreciate at last
the sound of silence.
Look up at the sky:
see infinitessimal
fractions of what's there.....
Inconceivable
vastness and stillness of space
is within us too.
Birth attaches Soul
to the finite for a while.
Death releases it.
September, 2009
To the big questions:
How to be and not to be,
That is the answer.
Fingers and words point
to partial truths so we ask
what's a metaphor?