Leave of Absence

First off,  an excerpt from:

http://ruthlesstruthdotcom.blogspot.com/2011/06/deepening-of-liberation.html:

"when he (Tolle) talks about stillness and presence

he gives the impression that they are things

when in fact

they are the absence of things"


So, here's the deal. It's real that there's no you, it's real that there's no anything. 

What is existence?  What is THIS?  

What is experience?  It's what's apparent; what appears.

Appearance is absence....erm ...becoming ... apparent.


But absence does not appear..... obviously.

All appearances (life, whatever) are a level playing field. It looks like there are apparent highs and lows and differentiation, variation, opposites...but they balance out.They come from absence and they dis-appear to absence.

So, what there only is, is absence.  Anything that comes and goes can't exist other than as a temporary appearance, so it can't be absolutely real.  The only thing that doesn't appear... isn't apparent...... is absence. 

All that is absolutely real is the absence of things. Any thing.

You can't deny the appearance of things whilst they appear.  But because appearance is temporary (even if the appearance seems to be long-term i.e.. a mountain;  it's changing constantly and can't even be said to 'be' a  mountain), then there is nothing lasting.

Literally, all that lasts is nothing.

Total absence of any thing: The only constant.


This sounds mystical and inscrutable, but it isn't, it's totally pragmatic and obvious..If you sit wherever you are and watch what's going on, then nothing stays static; nothing ever stays permanent.

Because there is no thing that is static, fixed, and ultimately observable in any way, there is only the abscence.

Because absence doesn't come and go, it's absolute reality.


The only permanance is the absence of any thing.  And absence isn't a thing.  It's not even nothing.


It's all there is.  And all that isn't.