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What Eckhart calls The Nothing is not dissimilar from what Buddha calls The Void. The ordinary human mind recoils from such a conception and human knowledge keeps no place for it. The five senses want a tangible world, even if it be only an illusionary appearance.

-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 5 : The Void As Metaphysical Fact > # 27