The first question: You said that really there is no one inside
us, there is only a void, an emptiness, but then why do you
often call it the being, the center? Being or non-being, nothing
or all – they look contradictory but they both mean the same.
All and nothing mean the same. In dictionaries they are
opposites but in life they are not. Nobody understands. Look at
it in this way: if I say that I love all, or if I say that I
love no one, it means the same. If I love someone, then only is
there a difference. If I love all, it means the same as loving
no one. There is no difference then. The difference is always in
degrees, relative. And these are both two extremes, they have no
degrees: the total and the zero have no degrees. So you can call
the total a zero, or you can call a zero the total. That’s why
some enlightened persons have called the inner space emptiness,
shunya, the void, nothingness, non-being, anatma – and some have
called it the inner being, the absolute being, the brahma, atma,
the supreme s