But that just makes the Void the source of the Source. Making it, therefore, the Source.
When people say Source they try to attach all this fake stuff about it having qualities, the reason the “All” is one, void, and manifold is because it’s behind and before any form of limitations, our minds cannot really conceptualise it.
You hit the nail on the head there. I don’t think our minds can really grasp it. It’s an idea you might get a glimpse of but is ultimately beyond our understanding.
People can technically have their idea of it given it’s “everything and nothing” in the simplest terms used to human language but I find that someone shouldn’t say “our minds can’t comprehend it” because you can technically only speak for yourself, so void can be fit into any ideology to fit a individual’s understanding of it, they’re not wrong since void can mold to fit an understanding of it.
Don’t be a child and jump to conclusions, it’s a figure of speech dont get too ahead of yourself you might say something ignorant. Anyway, let me break it down, it’s basically saying don’t assume everyone’s mind works like your own. Is that better?
I assume nothing. I said something to someone as a generality. It’s a broad philosophical conversation. To attach emotion to such a thing and make assumptions like that serves nothing. Nothing, like the void. Lol
In my opinion there is no “vs” between them. Two faces for the same coin. The void is the all, the all is the void. Just a matter of perception. It’s not “something” vs “nothing” or existence vs nonexistence. That’s how we perceive existence, not what existence is. 1000 years from now, we will have a different understanding.
Try first to know who or what you are. Then you’ll understand the all and the void. You’re the gate to both of them. Do you know and understand the purpose of your existence? Then how you would know and understand the purpose of the all?
Thinking won’t get you anywhere. Silence your thoughts and explore whatever there is within. One door will open another, one dimension will take you to another, until you find yourself back where you started, right here right now, but you won’t be the same.
In my opinion, this is the only way to answer your question.
I said that (though you paraphrased me slightly, and in so doing, inadvertantly altered the meaning of my statement, because I did not say comprehend): what I meant was that a finite thing such as the human mind cannot fully contain an infinite thing, such as an accurate concept of the All.
However we CAN comprehend it through metaphors and models well enough to work with it for various goals.
Our minds understand things by understanding what they ARE and what they are NOT, so a thing without qualities (yet from which all qualities simultaneously arise) is impossible to entirely conceptualise, because any attempt at a conceptual model creates its own antithesis and thereby, fails to be infinite and to include all states, all things, and their Polarities, at once.
But we can create models and experience Self-realisation that does the job on a practical level.
I wonder if the source and the void are required together? Perhaps the two make all that is rather than standing alone, though they can stand alone. For example, the very beginning of Genesis (life on earth) the spirit of god hovered over the waters, which were dark (pretty much de-void of life). Is the void death? Is the source life? It is complex really. To my mind at least.
Source is the Imagination of infinite intelligence and the ‘Source’ of everything. The Void is like the Mind which Infinite Intelligence encompasses and experiences itself. At least that’s how I understand it…