Divine Nothingness: Poems
Divine Nothingness: Poems

Author: Gerald Stern

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-11-03

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 0393243516

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From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence. Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in Lambertville, Gerald Stern explores questions about who and why we are, locating nothingness in the divine and the divine in nothingness. From “What Brings Me Here?” Here I am again and what brings me here to the same wooden bench preaching to the city of Lambertville surrounded by mayapples? For who in the hell is going to lie down with whom in the hell, either inside or outside?

God Is Nothingness
God Is Nothingness

Author: Andre Doshim Halaw

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781499637106

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Contrary to popular opinion, God is not a Supreme Being, but the exact opposite - Absolute Nothingness. In fact, the entire reason that people suffer is because they are attached to 'being', and fail to understand that Non-being is the very basis of existence itself. In the immortal words of the Tao Te Ching, "All things are born of being; being is born of Nothingness." Nothingness is not barren oblivion, nor the opposite of life and 'being'; rather, it is the creative, fertile, and boundless principle that serves as the source and ground of beingness itself. Empty and vast, Nothingness is pregnant with limitless potential and fecundity. In theistic terms, Nothingness is God. Rooted in the teachings of the world's greatest sages, such as Lao Tzu, the Buddha, Adi Shankaracarya, Meister Eckhart, and Nisargadatta Maharaj, "God is Nothingness" explores how Non-being is indeed the root of all existence. Even more valuably, the book reveals how to actually awaken to Nothingness-how to realize God.

The Other Side of Nothingness
The Other Side of Nothingness

Author: Beverly Lanzetta

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2001-02-22

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780791449509

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Provides an innovative theology based in mysticism, one that acknowledges the pain of spiritual repression and values religious pluralism.

God Being Nothing
God Being Nothing

Author: Ray L. Hart

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-05-09

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 022635962X

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In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a speculative theology that profoundly challenges traditional understandings of God. Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God. Breaking out of the classical doctrine of divine persons, Hart reimagines Trinity as composed of theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony an emerging Godhead in relation to origins, temporal creation, and human existence. The book s ultimate import is that all of Being and Nonbeing emerges together in interrelation and interdependence. This divine reality, Hart explains, is unfinished, imperfect, still in the course of a living-dying process that implicates all things, existent and inexistent, temporal and eternal. Doctrinal closuresomething that every orthodox theology requiresthus becomes impossible, and rightly so. Hart confronts those orthodoxies by asking: How can thinking of God reach closure when the divine is itself unfinished and its appearance to us always amounts to new creation? Hart s insights open the potencies of the nothing to the actualization of freedomthe freedom to create. That is, the nothing is not for nothingit is procreative. In the domain of radical speculative theology, then, Hart offers a fully deconstructive revisioning of the Christian God as ever an emerging and self-transfiguring actuality. It is a work with which all serious students of theology will wish to contend."

Divine Nothingness
Divine Nothingness

Author: Gerald Stern

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2016-06-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0393352862

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From the National Book Award–winning author of This Time, a new volume of poems that explore the very nature of existence. Divine Nothingness is a meditative reflection on the poet’s past and an elegy to love and the experience of the senses in the face of mortality. From the Jersey side of the Delaware River in Lambertville, Gerald Stern explores questions about who and why we are, locating nothingness in the divine and the divine in nothingness. From “What Brings Me Here?” Here I am again and what brings me here to the same wooden bench preaching to the city of Lambertville surrounded by mayapples? For who in the hell is going to lie down with whom in the hell, either inside or outside?

Divine Nothingness
Divine Nothingness

Author: Roxana Anghel

Publisher:

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13:

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"What do you mean, nothing and transcendent? If nothing, what to transcend? The mind has a moment of Zen!" There is an ineffable mystery even in the reality of Nothing. Walking on the guiding thread of undeniable reality, we discover the endless savor of inner peace that reveals to us the Supreme Truth: We are Nothing! The book discusses a spiritual-scientific theory on the origins of the universe, preceding the Big Bang, and provides an answer to the Big Crunch questions. It is also an invitation to play, in the book are left white pages on which the reader can write his own revelations following the exercises proposed by the writer.

The Divine Secret of Nothing
The Divine Secret of Nothing

Author: Vincent Morales

Publisher: E-BookTime, LLC

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1608621227

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A man shares his synthesis of ancient and quasi-empirical thinking that helped him to become more open to receive the grace that he needed to conquer the passions of the flesh to return to God what belongs to Him.The man utilizes scriptural verses, the wisdom of saints and philosophers, and insightful illustrations to empower and encourage the reader in the good fight to conquer the passions of self; for the reward that God gives to a person ¿ for conquering the passions and returning what belongs to Him ¿ is nothing less than, as St. Teresa of Avila said, the reward of Himself.This book might be difficult for some people to read due to its controversial content. Nevertheless, it is an illuminating and thought-provoking read for people who want to know God as Complete Goodness as well as the man¿s revelatory thoughts on: the Bible, the devil, the fallen angels, creation and the afterlife.

Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness
Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness

Author: Annette Potgieter

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-05-03

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 166676437X

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COVID-19 has impacted the way we see the world and the way we view spirituality; in times of crisis, people turn or return to religion or spirituality. Most of the South African population identifies as Christian. This brings to the fore what is meant by “spirituality” in a country crippled by the remains of apartheid structure, rampant corruption, poverty, and various systemic problems. Overall, there is a lack of scholarship investigating “spirituality” and “spirituality studies” from the global South. This book aims to bridge the gap. New avenues are investigated of thinking about God in difficult circumstances, as ideologies of hope and prosperity are reshaped. This book links text and context, spirituality and material culture, self and society, the analogue and the digital, contemplation and action, saying and unsaying; in short, the question of experiencing God in both everything and nothingness comes under the scope of this book.

Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing
Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing

Author: Eckhart

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2005-12-13

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0834826399

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This introduction to the writing and preaching of the greatest medieval European mystic contains selections from his sermons, treatises, and sayings, as well as Table Talk, the records of his informal advice to his spiritual children.