Nothingness is the basis of everything that exists today. It's the mother of creation & consciousness!
Tell me something, Mari__o you believe in reincarnation?_ Mari shakes her head. __o, I don__ think so,_ she says. __o you don__ think there__ a life to come?_ __ haven__ thought much about it. But it seems to me there__ no reason to believe in a life after this one._ __o once you__e dead there__ just nothing?___asically.___ell, I think there has to be something like reincarnation. Or maybe I should say I__ scared to think there isn__. I can__ understand nothingness. I can__ understand it and I can__ imagine it._ __othingness means there__ absolutely nothing, so maybe there__ no need to understand it or imagine it._ __eah, but what if nothingness is not like that? What if it__ the kind of thing that demands that you understand it or imagine it? I mean, you don__ know what it__ like to die, Mari. Maybe a person really has to die to understand what it__ like._ __ell, yeah_,_ says Mari. __ get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff,_ Korogi says. __ can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It__ so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. You might be reborn as something awful, but at least you can imagine what you__ look like__ horse, say, or a snail. And even if it was something bad, you might be luckier next time.
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Tell me something, Mari__o you believe in reincarnation?_ Mari shakes her head. __o, I don__ think so,_ she says. __o you don__ think there__ a life to come?_ __ haven__ thought much about it. But it seems to me there__ no reason to believe in a life after this one._ __o once you__e dead there__ just nothing?___asically.___ell, I think there has to be something like reincarnation. Or maybe I should say I__ scared to think there isn__. I can__ understand nothingness. I can__ understand it and I can__ imagine it._ __othingness means there__ absolutely nothing, so maybe there__ no need to understand it or imagine it._ __eah, but what if nothingness is not like that? What if it__ the kind of thing that demands that you understand it or imagine it? I mean, you don__ know what it__ like to die, Mari. Maybe a person really has to die to understand what it__ like._ __ell, yeah_,_ says Mari. __ get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff,_ Korogi says. __ can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It__ so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. You might be reborn as something awful, but at least you can imagine what you__ look like__ horse, say, or a snail. And even if it was something bad, you might be luckier next time.
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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevksy depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.