Feel pretty certain that this song is about an experience of enlightenment, even if not intentionally Zen Buddhist in character it sounds like a poem about enlightenment.
Even the title "be the void" has Buddhist connotations.
The contradictions are a common feature in Zen Buddhism, the idea would be that there's no way you can win, and so at the moment you realise that there's nothing you can do: you do it.
There's so much stuff to me that's obviously about enlightenment.
Like talking about not knowing what the truth is, but being able to show it.
Losing it when you found it. But it seems likely that the song was made ad-hoc of different ideas and parts of other ideas of other songs, just with a sort of common thread. It seems autobiographical. Perhaps the writer had been facing some difficulties and earnestly sought to solve them, and then realised there was nothing he could do, and then at that moment could solve them. Who knows. Just every time I listen to this song, it seems so clearly that the writer has had some kind of partial or complete experience of enlightenment.
Feel pretty certain that this song is about an experience of enlightenment, even if not intentionally Zen Buddhist in character it sounds like a poem about enlightenment.
Even the title "be the void" has Buddhist connotations.
The contradictions are a common feature in Zen Buddhism, the idea would be that there's no way you can win, and so at the moment you realise that there's nothing you can do: you do it.
There's so much stuff to me that's obviously about enlightenment.
Like talking about not knowing what the truth is, but being able to show it.
Losing it when you found it. But it seems likely that the song was made ad-hoc of different ideas and parts of other ideas of other songs, just with a sort of common thread. It seems autobiographical. Perhaps the writer had been facing some difficulties and earnestly sought to solve them, and then realised there was nothing he could do, and then at that moment could solve them. Who knows. Just every time I listen to this song, it seems so clearly that the writer has had some kind of partial or complete experience of enlightenment.