Creation is Making Something Out of Nothing

Everything is nothing. By this I mean all things are inherently empty of meanings save the meanings each individual ascribes to them. To create is to make something out of nothing. Put another way, when I ascribe meanings to nothing I am dreaming. It matters not whether I'm asleep or awake, as long as I'm making something out of nothing it is still a dream. Just because a dream is tangible and appears real doesn't mean it is real. It is still inherently nothing.

I happen to be a huge fan of advertising as an art form. There is one particular advert for a pharmacist, however, that I can't stand. In my "expert" opinion (yeah right!) everything about it is all wrong, including the story line, the models, the music. Each time it comes on and I hear the music it makes me cringe. My reaction has obviously given it a lot of power because a pop group recently released a cover version of the song being used in that advert. (I won't mention the song as I don't want to give it further energy. Hehe!) After I heard the group performing the song, I decided to get my own back and stopped giving the advert and the song further meaning. Now I'm no longer bothered by the advert or the song. I even found myself humming it the other day.

There's a new advert for some car at the moment on television, which I believe is a perfect example of advert as art. I love the music and the graphics; though the advert can't be that brilliant if I can't remember the model of the car. My mother's reaction to the advert is that it gives her a headache. As soon as it comes on she either turns the volume down or put it on mute.

The other day while I was in the library, they were testing out the smoke alarm. They had already warned users to expect some disruption. I wasn't bothered at all. When I spoke to one of the security guards, he told me he had a splitting headache because of the alarm and if it continued he was going to have to complain.

The experiences I have described are examples of creation/dreaming; making something out of nothing. The advert I didn't like is nothing but I made it into a something by reacting to it. The advert my mother takes umbrage to is nothing, yet it gives her a headache. The smoke alarm is nothing but the security guard found it gave him a headache. This means I am always creating by making something out of nothing. When I don't wish a dream to continue, like being bothered by the advert, I simply dismiss it as nothing in rather the same way I do when I wake up from a sleeping dream. The only time a dream can spill over from my sleeping state into my waking state is when I choose for it to continue.

For instance, a couple of months back I had a sleeping dream about an ex-boyfriend. In the dream I met up with him by accident. Then the dream changed and I found myself in another venue where I was with two friends and he turned up there. He said he had planned to meet someone as well. My ex invited us to his house and gave us a tour and played some music from his album. When I woke out of that dream, it was so vivid that I wondered if it was going to happen in this waking dream. I decided the dream doesn't have to come "true" if I don't want it to. It's all up to me and how I want to play it. I still kept thinking of my friend and wondered how he was. The last time I heard from him was about a year ago when we exchanged emails briefly then we stopped corresponding. I decided it would be fun getting in contact with him again so I emailed him. After that we exchanged lots of funny emails reliving old memories. Then I didn't hear from him for a while. I presumed he'd gone into work mode.

Then recently I received a phishing letter asking for my email account details. In other words, I had made a something out of nothing. The sender took over my email account and started sending out bogus emails to my contacts list. As I haven't memorised all my friend's email addresses, I had no way of notifying them of the situation unless of course they remembered to check my blog and obtain my alternative email address. My ex-boyfriend was easy to contact because all I had to do was look up his website and get his email address. He told me he hadn't received any dodgy emails. He apologised for not being in contact as he's been busy working with an artist in the studio. He said he'd just moved to a bigger studio and wondered if we could meet up soon so he could show me his studio and play me some of his music. I agreed to meet up. It would seem that the Universe, the Master Illusionist, has conspired to make something out of my nothing dream.

How can I dissolve an undesirable experience that I have consciously or unconsciously dreamed up? In other words, how can I get rid of a nothing that is persistently trying to pass itself off as something? By seeing it for what it is as a nothing.

Nothing has no power except the power I give it.
Nothing has no meaning except the meaning I give it.
Nothing has no reality except the reality I give it.
Nothing cannot harm me or anyone.

I believe it's not enough to see what I don't like or want to experience as nothing, it's important to see everything as nothing. That's how one dissolves the dream of duality. Therefore, whether my experiences are happy or sad, uplifting or depressing, good or bad; they are all nothing.

This personality called Enocia is also a nothing.

The only thing that's real is that which never changes, the Light behind all creations and expressions.

Enocia

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