It may be said that the Torah is built on two main components–one, that all of nature, including human life, was established through a physical aspect, and two, emptiness, or what Einstein referred to as space/time. This is easily verified by looking up at the heavens on any clear night, when the darkness of the night horizon reveals millions of stars, planets etc, but it’s also when those millions of stars give relevance to the darkness.
Did you ever notice how important the darkness seems when looking up at a clear night sky, and how irrelevant it is at any other time? That happens because when you first look up at the night sky your mind usually isn’t in control of what your looking at. Nature is in control. There are rare times in life when “you see the whole picture.” Your perspective is stretched so far that it encompasses “all that there is,” and by no mere coincidence this picture is expressed in the very first ten words of the Torah, which I discovered was for the purpose of disclosing to the world how to find nature’s truth, the truth of life, and the secret to achieving everlasting world peace. That secret is to know that the living G-d of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Moses is as real as the darkness that hovers across one end of each night’s horizon to the other.
“In the beginning G-d (infinite emptiness/space) Created the heavens (the physical universe) and the earth (life, because life gives the universe its meaning).” G-d didn’t hide His message to the world; He disclosed His message up front. Contained within these first ten words of Torah, I learned, can be found the entire story of the universe, and the story of every human’s journey through life.
The point is, every part of nature is comprised of a physical component and emptiness or space, and so, whatever human beings observe and think about are these two components together, whether we are aware of both or not. The best example is what I am writing. Notice that between each letter and word there is a blank, or space. Yet, when you read what I write, you’re only aware of the letters, and not the space. Type, and watch how often your thumb hits the empty space bar. Now consider this truth. While every letter changes from one word to the next the space is always a constant. Believe it or not, just within the example of writing, you can find the hidden mystery of the story of life.
The universe is built on and in empty space, which is a constant. Empty space never changes. However, the physical aspects of the universe are subject to the laws of motion, gravity and other forces which cause physical changes to occur on a moment to moment basis. As such, the universe is built on both “sameness” and “diversity.” I learned that the two together are in fact, the composition of the state of “reality.” But I also came to understand that the two together cause the story of nature and each story of life to be built on a paradox.
Here’s what I mean: it is the “sameness” of the story of every person’s life (birth, death and a journey comprised of experiences built on both pain and happiness in the middle) that creates the “illusion of human equality,” while it is the diversity of nature’s exterior that creates the illusion of “inequality.” Each letter that I type is diverse, different, but each space in between is the same. However, while you are aware of the letters you are not aware of the sameness of space (which is necessary to connect each letter and each word to each other). Take away the space, you lose clarity, add space you gain clarity, but look only at the letters and the words, and you are looking at only a part of reality. You are looking at the world of logic (the relationship between terms, objects, formal figures, even letters–the end points), but not the world of truth (which takes into account the gaps, the blank intervals of the betweenness itself).
Western thinking is built on diversity–what we see in front of our eyes, which are only the physical aspects of nature. These are things we can touch and feel, but reality is also based on the sameness–what in Western thinking is considered “nothing,” “worthless.” The result, we think with only the use of the physical universe, and so we live in a realm that is an illusion, not based on the “real world.”
It is because reality is comprised of sameness and diversity–both of which are inseparable–that it ends up also causing the emptiness of space to affect our thinking. Yet, we aren’t aware of that, and so we constantly make mistakes in our thought process and in the conclusions we come to. We draw logical conclusions, but conclusions that aren’t necessarily true (for truth would factor in both). As a result, we constantly move towards conflict (mere diversity) and run away from peace (sameness).
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