Have mercy on me(3)

Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" (Mark 10:48)

In the last paragraph of the preceding meditation mentions, “We have to shout all the more on the borderline of nothing and something.” For some the meaning of this paragraph can be vividly understood while others may feel it as too much of idealism. This necessitates some additional explanation for proper understanding.

We are now living in the world of something. The food we eat and the water we drink every day are all ‘something’. When we open our eyes everything is seen, open our ears all sounds are heard and open the senses of our body everything is felt. This world is filled with wonders that we cannot describe it properly. We are here together with ‘something’ of the world. This is the world of something.

However, everything cannot always come into our senses. When we close our eyes everything disappears. When we close our ears no sound is heard. In this case, can we affirm those ‘something’ has been there originally? In a sense we are not aware of the fact that something is already in stock originally. Is the incapability of our perception due to the limitation of our senses? It is not so either.

The world right now might not be something that we are sensibly experiencing. Suppose there is a tree. Though we recognize it as a tree there is no complete guarantee that it will be a tree. It could be a totally different object such as a bird and the wind. Then a tree might be a kind of ‘nihility’ for them.

More fundamentally speaking, everything in this world including mankind returns to ‘nihility’ in a flash. Because of fastness of its speed we seem to put on the boarder of ‘something’ and ‘nothing’. We are just getting dizzy before this fact. Yes. We simply shout for help on the border of something and nothing. It is a shouting for life.