I thought about emptiness when i was 5-7

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#1

well here is my story , I grew up a only child so i had alot of time to play with myself (lol) , and i always used to ask this question , "If u remove everything in the world, what is left ? the answer is nothing, but nothing is something because nothing is nothing , i knew there was always something there and it was impossible to remove nothingness … (im sorry if i got you confused)

How is it possible i could think of that at such a young age? do kids think about these things at such a young age?

does this have to do with reincarnation ?

#2

I did asked myself too:) many of mu friend did ponder on that question in childhood. I played with ajna chakra in kindergarten every day during the sleep time:)…
when the star fall - I would make a wish that all the creatures in the world to be happy…was wondering where the space cam from…
later we have other concerns - get a job, family, money, status…etc

It is really amazing how close to the Self we were when we were children.

#3

Do this universe has an end? How can there be an end? one thing begins after one ends. What is after space? this is what used to make me mad

#4

Interesting…I used to think from an early age the exact same as you Shivoham!!!
I also used to think that how can there be nothing because nothing is something in the fact that it is nothing!!!???

#5

When I was around 5 or 6 I used to wonder whether everyone else was a robot, and I was the only “real” person in the world, and it was all some big test.

#6

Thomas we are robots, I hate to tell you smiley

#7

Children can be very insightful and curious creatures. This often leads to very positive benefits.

When I was about 6, the song ‘The Sounds Of Silence’ by Simon and Garfunkel was very popular. It was being played everywhere.

Now, when I was that age, I did not understand what the song was implying…all I thought was ‘How the heck does silence make a sound?’

So, I decided to do a little ‘experiment’. One day, I got up at 3am in the morning when everybody was fast asleep and sat on my living room floor to just listen.

Now, we lived in the country and the nearest road was about 2 miles away.

At first, my ‘meditation’ was interrupted by the sound of a dripping tap and whirring fridge. How can there be silence if they made noise? So, I got up and turned them off and sat down again with my eyes closed, trying to ‘focus’ on the silence.

My ears were so ‘fine-tuned’ I could have heard a car passing on that distant road, but none did…my neighbour’s dog was also strangely quiet that morning…I could hear nothing…it was totally silent…so I thought ‘right, now to try and hear what sound the silence makes’…

At first, I was aware of my breathing, so I slowed that right down, trying not to make a sound myself and then adjusted my hearing to ignore that.
I could have heard a fly crawling on the wall at this stage, but I did not.

I don’t know how long I sat like that…but just before dawn, something happened. I began to hear ‘sounds’ but they were coming from inside of me (I learned much later these came from my Anahata Chakra)…at first it sounded like a small bell/chime tinkling and it culminated in a large ‘explosion’. This was followed by the living room being totally illuminated before the sun even came up and I felt overjoyed and peaceful. I remember everything as if it were yesterday…

Then, I knew what ‘The Sounds Of Silence’ was and my curiosity was satiated. lol

I also learned something important much later on about this experience.

I must have done a lot of yoga and meditation in my previous life(lives). We are not born as a spiritual ‘tabula rasa’. Spiritual practices get carried over from one lifetime to the next. I have met many very wise souls under 10. :wink:

#8

What a profound question, Mattone. The answer is right in it.

I think I am understanding my childhood better now when I see my granddaughters growing. As a child I was engrossed in living. When my children grew up I was engrossed in earning. Now I have mind better rested.

Now I think that we are all born divine and children retain it in their subtle world of faith, dreams, the fairy-world, which adults consider ‘unreal’. The world around them is not so divine and finally gets them. But children do ask questions to which adults often give stupid answers as they are expected to know “better”, but don’t. Eventually, the children learn to fall in the groove and ask no questions.

Asking questions is seeking, the beginning of spiritual journey. I am convinced more and more that any spiritual journey is really an exercise in unlearning. Everything we do as adults needs to be reversed. We corrupt mind that needs purification. We abuse metabolism that needs correction. We spoil breathing that needs restoration. From a firm anchor in the physical world, we need to return to the subtle world. What stands between the childhood divinity and us is our own misplaced ‘faith’ in the personalized knowledge, our habit of hoarding emotional assets and our inability to realize it.

Many adults turn to spirituality because now ‘the days are numbered’. With so many questions unanswered in this physical world they finally turn to the unseen subtle world. Children are naturally curious, inquisitive and spiritual; they have much less to unlearn. It is a spiritual legacy that, like karma, gets carried from life to life.

#9

I agree Suhas …In Christianity there is a reference that Jesus used to appear as a child…
Ive always tried to, for a number of years, (as I put it…) keep things simple…my happiest moments in life are when I have very little happening in my mind. I always think laughter has very little in it but gives so much.

ive said a couple of times on previous threads that when I went to university was when I lost sight (visually) of my inner Guru…he was there for a long time, until then…
Since then I have always felt that my time in University was a mistake. When I was simple, I was happier.
Kind Regards to you Suhas

#10

Hello Dear!

   To inquire about existence and nothingness is always from an evolved mind, evolved through an ongoing process of contemplation and meditation. We all are undergoing the process of evolution. 
The intrinsic property of every soul is SAT-CHIT-ANAND and it is all knowing and this inherent quality of soul surfaces time and again but gets filtered through our mind and thus the information and knowledge of truth is diluted and conditioned. Yes! This is true at some instance there is dawn of pure knowledge, it could be while one is admiring a beautiful painting, landscape, listening to music anything which is beautiful and melodious.
Thus, the past memory is awakened through some activity which triggers and reminds  us "Our Journey Back To Light."

QUOTE=mattone;31352]well here is my story , I grew up a only child so i had alot of time to play with myself (lol) , and i always used to ask this question , "If u remove everything in the world, what is left ? the answer is nothing, but nothing is something because nothing is nothing , i knew there was always something there and it was impossible to remove nothingness … (im sorry if i got you confused)

How is it possible i could think of that at such a young age? do kids think about these things at such a young age?

does this have to do with reincarnation ?[/QUOTE]

#11

The question that use to drive me up the wall. I mean literally I would feel like my head is going to explode or I need to pull my hair our was: Why is there something rather than nothing!

As a child I do not really remember asking myself deep philosophical questions, but I do remember thinking I could make it rain and predict when the traffic lights were going to change lol Apparently, when I was a little baby I use to go to sleep in prayer posture. A relatiive of mine commented that I was a sage/holy man in my past life.

I wish I was a child again :frowning: