‘Notes on Nothing’ by Anonymous: In hot pursuit of nothing (and nobody much)

Sitting at the feet of the world’s greatest spiritual teachers has led me to believe, like WH Auden, that while I may not be able to bless, life is indeed a blessing, sometimes a miraculous one at that. Witnessing Masters who “promise no miracle” to students who have traipsed across continents to find them, yet in the next breath are able to dissolve themselves into light bodies of sparkling atoms at will- all this and more has already convinced me as to the impermanence of matter and the transformative capacity of an eye-witness account to bring about a changed world view.

I am surprised, none-the-less, when a package arrives from the US with no sender name on its exterior wrapping. By the feel of it, it’s a book. Opening it, I discover no note, no letter, just a book with a yellow-gold cover, entitled Notes On Nothing by Anonymous. I flick through, looking for clues. Who sent me this? Who even wrote it? There is no author bio at the back, just a QR code to take me to a publisher’s website. As I don’t have my phone to hand, I decide to read the book instead. Maybe I’ll pick up some clues along...

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