11 Jan Looking For Nothing

Some 25 years back, in the “old city” section of Jerusalem, I stepped into a shop selling antiquities.

As I looked at various objects in glass cases, the owner of the shop introduced himself and said he’d been an antiquities dealer for more than fifty years, dealt in very fine and desirable objects and was sure he had something I’d like.

I told him I’d been collecting antiquities for some time and wanted to look around.

He then asked: “What are you looking for.”

I replied: “I don’t know what I’m looking for until I find it.”

To which he said: “In that case, you’re looking for nothing.”

While not apparent to me at the time, ultimately he was right.

Now, no longer an art collector, I seek to collect the answers from our ancestors to the nature of consciousness.

I seek oneness with the nothing which is the essence of everything.